Killing of Indigenous Boy Suggests Racist Violence is Alive and Well in Australia
Killings and massacres based on race, as well as systemic social, economic and political issues defined by race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual orientation have plagued our nation since its inception. The latest example of an attack reported to be...
Prosecution Appeals Against Judge’s Decision to Allow Killer Cop to Avoid Prison
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) will file an appeal against the inadequacy of the sentence imposed on a police officer who avoided a prison sentence despite being convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering a 95-year old...
Sentence for Officer Who Killed Great-Grandmother by Taser Is Manifestly Inadequate
The former police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at an aged care facility in southern New South Wales has been given a non-custodial sentence, with many expressing the view that the penalty is far...
Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
NSW Court Registry Data Breach Threatens to Further Erode Confidence in Justice System
A major breach of the New South Wales courts database has raised questions about how and why thousands of documents containing sensitive personal information about defendants, complainants and witnesses have been accessed through what are meant to be secure servers,...
Next in Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Crosshairs: Law Firms and Lawyers
When Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he launched a campaign to ensure the disempowerment of those who stood in the way of his authoritarian agenda. At the top of the soon-to-be dictator’s list were judges and...
Trump Predictably Stabs Australia in the Back
During Donald Trump’s previous term as president, Australia was granted exemptions to a range of trade sanctions, in recognition of our nation’s close allegiance with the United States - which has included surrendering control of the military facility at Pine...
Exorbitant Tobacco Taxes Lead to Organised Crime and Endanger the Public
The recent seizure of $35 million dollars in tobacco plants in Victoria is just the latest incident in the burgeoning black market tobacco trade in Australia - a trade that has sprung from increasingly exorbitant tobacco taxes and negatively affected...
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...
‘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...
