Cuts to Legal Aid NT Adult Services Will Disproportionately Impact First Peoples
Legal Aid Northern Territory last week announced that it would be cutting new applications for services to adults charged with criminal offences from 21 October, while all other services specifically geared to adults, which include referrals for grants for aid...
Hundreds of NSW Police Officers Strike Over Ever-Thinning Blue Line
New South Wakes police officers announced on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 that they’re striking in their hundreds over nonurgent duties, as officers consider the agency is understaffed and those who are currently working the beat are increasingly being called upon...
NSW Government Considers Banning Protests Due to Cost, While Opposition Flags User Pays System
After the Gaza genocide reached its 12-month mark, and this state’s Free Palestine rally against Israel’s yearlong mass slaughter had taken place, NSW premier Chris Minns got on 2GB radio on Tuesday to unveil his new protofascist proposal, which involves...
Securing Greater Israel Requires the Eradication of Palestinian and Lebanese Civilians
The wholesale massacre and starvation of Palestinian civilians trapped in the walled-in Gaza Strip has continued on for a year now, with the official death toll close to 42,000 people. And as this grim anniversary drew nearer, instead of any...
The 52nd Free Palestine Rally on Gadigal in Sydney Was a Testament to Social Cohesion
Despite a week of dog whistling from prime minister Anthony Albanese, NSW premier Chris Minns, and an enhanced effort by Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton, who basically bared his canine-like teeth to the press, the 52nd Free Palestine-Free Lebanon rally...
Justice Has Been Denied to Julian Assange, Who “Plead Guilty to Journalism”
“I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy,” multi award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange remarked, as he was addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
Court Declines to Issue Guideline Judgment for the Offence of Assaulting Police
In late 2002, the NSW attorney general Bob Debus applied to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal for a guideline judgment in relation to the offence of assault police, which is a crime contained in section 60(1) of the Crimes...
Pro-Palestine Protest Triumphs Over NSW Police Attempt to Sow Social Discord
Thanks to the negotiating skills of Palestine Action Group Sydney organisers and their legals, the attempt by the NSW police commissioner to stop a rally and a candlelit vigil marking a year since the Israeli state commenced a coordinated genocidal...
Vapes Are Legally Available Without Prescription in NSW, But Only at Chemists
Health minister Mark Butler’s elaborate scheme to eradicate recreational vaping in the community, had meant that since 1 July 2024, vapes had only legally been available via prescription at pharmacies. However, this came to an end on Tuesday, 1 October...
Flag Furore Reveals Politicians Are More Concerned About Symbols Than Civilian Deaths
The rogue state of Israel launched a full-scale attack in Beirut last Friday, which saw Israeli forces justify the levelling of six apartment blocks in the Lebanese capital, as, along with the hundreds of civilians killed, the attacks also resulted...
