Trans Is a Gift, Not a Threat: AusPATH’s Teddy Cook on Latham’s Anti-Trans Laws
Currently, there’s a very dangerous bill under review of a NSW parliamentary committee that seeks to effectively erase the identity of trans kids within the education system, as it would ban all staff from mentioning gender fluidity at schools via...
The New Mental Health Regime in the NSW Criminal Courts
The Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) (the New Act) came into effect on the 27 March 2021. Passed last June, the New Act replaces the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990 (NSW) (the Old Act)...
Is it Legal to Ride a Power-Assisted Bicycle in New South Wales?
On 22 January 2021, the Australian Government updated the requirements for permitted e-bikes. There are only two types of eBikes permitted on roads and road-related areas, which are power-assisted cycles whereby the motor is activated by a throttle, and power-assisted...
The Law, Penalties and Defences for Aggravated Sexual Assault in Company
A jury in Downing Centre District Court has heard that a then-19 year old woman felt “dead inside” when NRL payers Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair allegedly forced her to have sexual intercourse in the early hours of 9...
A “Totalitarian Regime With a Sunny Climate”: McBride on Whistleblower Persecution
“I am appalled by what our country has become,” said former ADF lawyer David McBride. “I grew up in the shadow of the Second World War. I believed all that. And my disgust and anger to find that most of...
Federal Coalition’s Persistent Culture Wars Could Be Its Undoing
According to Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam, Scott Morrison doesn’t go in for culture wars, as he’s too concerned with creating jobs. And, as the struggle to promote one ideology over all others fails to generate employment,...
Federal Government Flouts the Rule of Law When It Comes to Refugees
The principle of non-refoulement prohibits nation-states from removing refugees from their jurisdiction or effective control to send them to the country from which they fled, when it entails returning them to a genuine risk of irreparable harm. Non-refoulement underpins the...
Coalition Slammed for Deporting Unaccompanied Teenager
Australia’s enhanced character ground deportation scheme hit a new low last week, as amongst a group of New Zealanders deported from our country was an unaccompanied 15-year-old boy, who’d lived here most of his life. Since December 2014, the deportation...
The Rising Christian Right: “Dual Citizens of Australia and the Kingdom of God”
“Author Roy Williams has written that, as a Christian, he is sick of the Christian influence in Australia being referred to as either minimal or malign,” says podcaster Karl Faase in a clip spruiking the Church and State Summit 2021,...
Attorney-General Sues for Defamation
Attorney-General Christian Porter has been at the centre of a media storm over allegations he sexually assaulted a debating teammate during a trip to Sydney in 1988, as well as had inappropriate relations with a female staffer at a Canberra...
