The Laws, Defences and Penalties for Failing to Lodge a Tax Return in Australia
A Queensland lawyer who charged with five tax offences involving 105 breaches of taxation legislation has been suspended from practising law until 27 February 2026. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal published a judgment on 18 September 2024 which found...
A Rogue and Armed VicPol Goes Ballistic on Peace Protesters: Interview With XR’s Violet and Brad
A week on from the Disrupt Land Forces protests that happened in Naarm-Melbourne on 11 September, the Victoria police response to the thousands of peace activists who turned up to demonstrate against a weapons trading show continues to stun the...
What is the Likely Penalty for Robbery Offences in New South Wales?
A Sydney man is facing charges of aggravated robbery, police pursuit, and take & drive conveyance over allegations he forcibly took a taxi from a driver. Officers attached to Cumberland Police Area Command were patrolling Merrylands in Western Sydney at...
The Soft US Military Takeover of Australia Is Simply a “Pooling of Sovereignty”
Australian sovereignty has always been tenuous, as the grounds upon which the British Crown claimed the great southern continent as its own were based on the Doctrine of Discovery and the legal concept of terra nullius, which stipulate that an...
Attorney General Waxes Lyrical About His Whistleblower Protections that Fail All
“Improved whistleblower protection has long been an interest of mine,” federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus told The Sydney Institute, during a 5 September speech he gave to the privately-funded policy forum, which was titled, Transparency and Accountability in Politics and...
The Encryption Wars Continue as ASIO Demands Big Tech Unlock Private Messaging
The ABC’s 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson was last week invited into an ASIO 75th anniversary exhibition that’s usually only open to former ASIO officers, not just to give us a glimpse of how taxpayers are funding private shows for spooks but...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 August 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Thorpe Calls Out Gaslighting Albanese, as He Abandons Makarrata Truth-Telling Reform Our PM is claiming he never made a commitment to truth-telling or a treaty,...
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Albanese Abandons the Religious Schools/Discrimination Reforms to the Coalition
Prime minister Anthony Albanese, in response to a question at a 9 August 2024 presser regarding his government’s religious discrimination legislation, which it handed a copy of to the opposition to consider back in March, responded that he was kicking...
AUKUS 2.0: Albanese Drives It Like He Stole It, and Then Gives It Away to the US
On his jaunt to the US last week, not only did defence minister Richard Marles glorify the US presence across the entire Australian military domain at the AUSMIN, but he also signed an updated version of the AUKUS Exchange of...
