Melbourne Symphony Again Attempts to Silence Pianist Jayson Gillham on Truth and Justice
International classical pianist Jayson Gillham is one of the brave figures, who, at the height of the Gaza genocide, broke the unofficial prohibition on speaking out in support of Palestinians during a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra hosted solo recital, and not...
Bringing Parliament to the People: Interview with Socialist Alliance for Sydney’s Rachel Evans
Well known Sydney social justice activist Rachel Evans is running on the Socialist Alliance ticket for the seat of Sydney in the upcoming May election, which is a national vote that’s expected to repeat and further progress the slide towards...
Antisemitism Threat to Australia: A ‘Complex Criminal Con-job’
We published an article on 3 February 2025 asserting that the incidents used by the mainstream media and politicians to generate the hysteria used to justify enacting antisemitism specific criminal offences had nothing to do with antisemitism at all -...
NSW Traffic Fines Are More About Revenue than Road Safety
The sharp increase in fines for traffic offences facilitated by new technologies such as seatbelt detection cameras and vastly improved mobile phone detection cameras has been an enormous win for the New South Wales government. But many believe the augmentation...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 March 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sexual Assault Conviction Quashed Due to Admission of Unfairly Prejudicial Evidence The appeal court overturned the conviction as the police body warn camera footage admitted...
Sydney Uni Pro-Palestinian Deportation Scare Foreshadows Potential Debilitating Law Reform
The Sydney University Office of the Academic Registrar wrote to Luna, an international student from Malaysia, on 3 February 2025, to inform her that she’s the subject of an internal investigation over a potentially antisemitic incident, and as the notice...
NSW Pill Testing Is Welcomed, But No Substitute for Robust Drug Law Reform
A government-sanctioned pill testing trial happened at the two-day Yours and Owls music festival held in Wollongong last weekend. So, for the first time ever in the state of NSW, festivalgoers were able to have their illegal drugs tested for...
Former Magistrate Heilpern Continues to Call for Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Medicinal cannabis became a legally prescribed medicine on 30 October 2016, and despite immense teething issues in terms of the drug initially being legal but unobtainable, the Medical Board of Australia celebrated more than one million patients prescribed by January...
‘I’m Going to Christ Church 2.0 This Joint”: Islamophobia Alive and Well in Australia
A 16-year old’s recent arrest over alleged threats to perpetrate a mass shooting at a Sydney mosque is just part of the 580% rise in Islamophobic incidents across the nation - one which has largely been ignored by state, territory...
Turns Out the UK AUKUS Submarines Are Just as Unviable as the US Subs
Senator David Shoebridge confirmed with Australian Submarine Agency director general vice admiral Jonathan Mead during Senate estimates on 26 February 2025 that, according to an official United Kingdom report, it’s unviable that the UK Rolls Royce facility charged with the...
