Federal Corruption Watchdog Directed to Reconsider Refusal to Investigate Robodebt
The National Anti-Corruption Commission publicly announced in June that it would not be further inquiring into the Robodebt Royal Commission (RRC) submission that referred six public officials to the newly created federal integrity watchdog for official investigation, as it had...
Queensland to Launch Draconian Crackdown on Youth Crime Wave That Doesn’t Exist
The Liberal National Party took out the Queensland election last weekend, with a landslide victory that saw the new government led by premier David Crisafulli taking out 53 seats in parliament compared with Labor’s 33 seats so far, following an...
NSW Police Force Attempts to Shut Down Rising Tide Protest, With the Backing of the State
NSW police commissioner Karen Webb is taking the organisers of Rising Tide to the Supreme Court of New South Wales this Friday, in an effort to obtain an order allowing state law enforcement to refuse the planned blockade of the...
Release Asian Trans Woman Detained in Villawood: Interview AMSWAG’s Damien Nguyen
A trans woman from Southeast Asia was stopped by immigration on arrival in Australia 12 weeks ago, after she was stopped and allegedly racially profiled by Australian Border Force officers, who determined on perusal of her phone content that she...
Taking Pollies on a Journey: Uniting’s Emma Maiden on the Promise of the NSW Drug Summit
The long-sought-after 2024 NSW Drug Summit will open this Friday in the southwestern regional town of Griffith, prior to moving on to the Northern Rivers town of Lismore for a day of hearings next Monday, and over the 4th and...
Big Wig Buys His Way Out of Tax Crimes, While ATO Whistleblower Is Criminally Prosecuted for Exposing Them
The close to a fortnight-old scandal relating to Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison is continuing to develop, following the Australian Financial Review having run an 18 October article exposing one of the nation’s richest people as having established a series...
Building a Rights-Centred Society: ALHR’s Kerry Weste on a Human Rights Act for NSW
The NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights for NSW Alliance recently hosted a forum of legal experts, which included former High Court Justice Michael Kirby, and it discussed the need for a Human Rights Act (HRA) for NSW, as such...
NSW Police Continue to Harass Motorists with Unjust Zero-Tolerance Drug Driving Laws
A NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) study released this week has found that over the period 2008 through to last year, roadside drug testing (RDT) in this state, which was rolled out in 2007, has dramatically increased...
Northern Territory Government’s Tough-on-Crime Laws Target Vulnerable Youths.
Newly minted Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro has been threatening to crack down on youth crime since she introduced her own set of bail measures into the unicameral NT parliament in 2022, and in the lead up to this...
NSW Police Are Strip Searching Around 100 Civilians at Public Train Stations Annually
New South Wales police officers accompanied by drug detection dogs randomly searching commuters at train stations have been part of life in Sydney since NSW parliament passed laws coming into effect in February 2002, that permitted the warrantless use of...