The NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission: A Toothless Police Watchdog
Despite long-term calls to reform a system that continues to position the NSW Police Force as the chief investigator of NSW police critical incidents, which are those that involve officers causing death or serious harm, the state law enforcement body...
Thorpe Calls for Human Rights Act, With Inclusion of Self-Determining Indigenous Rights
Labor has reopened the debate around a Human Rights Act. Australia is the only liberal democracy without rights protections enshrined in federal law. And many locals remain unaware of this, despite it being an open secret over the entire history...
The Drug Offenders Program: Shane Prince SC and Jim Finnane on Early Intervention
The hardline approach taken to psychoactive drugs has pushed their use underground, which causes barriers to seeking help for those who develop problematic use, as they’re admitting to a crime, while the funding of an ever-increasing habit can also become...
A Nasty Little Labor-led Nation Is Ramping Up Deportations, or Is It?
As Andrew Giles last week announced that he’s ramping up the deportation of noncitizens, it was clear he’s starting to look a little jaundiced like most MPs who hold the role of immigration minister tend to after a period in...
Labor Ministers Grizzle Over Spray Painted Offices, as Sea of Palestinian Blood Is Spilt
Mindless acts of vandalism have always been frowned on in the community. The destruction of private or public property for a quick thrill can cause untold financial and psychological harm to the often randomly resulting victim/s of such crimes, while...
Parliament Finds Policing Mental Health Crises Is Deadly, But Major Parties Resist Reform
A carer recently explained in a submission to the NSW mental health access parliamentary inquiry, that on calling NSW police to a crises her mental health patient was having, eight officers arrived, who appeared to have no understanding of such...
“A Progressive Escalation of BDS Actions Worldwide”: An Interview With BDS Australia
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation implemented by the South African government in 1948, which saw the white minority rule over the Black South African people of that nation in an authoritarian manner that violently oppressed and impoverished the...
The Stage Is Set for a Federal Human Rights Act: But Does Albanese Have the Fortitude?
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights chair Labor MP Josh Burns announced in the lower house on 30 May 2024 that the Albanese government-launched inquiry into Australia’s human rights framework has recommended, first and foremost, the adoption of a national...
NSW Police Watchdog to Review Lawfulness of Bail Compliance Checks
After a person is arrested and charged with a criminal offence in New South Wales, police will decide whether the defendant will be released on bail from the police station, or remanded in custody to face a bail application in...
Australians Fighting in Gaza Should’ve Been Warned of Potential Prosecution, Says Greg Barns SC
The Netanyahu government issued a 10 October 2023 call for its 360,000 army reservists to show up for military action it had launched in the Gaza Strip. And it’s understood that about 1,000 Australians with dual citizenship heeded the call...
