Sonia Hickey

Sonia Hickey is a freelance writer, magazine journalist, and owner of 'Woman with Words'. She has a strong interest in social justice and is a member of the Sydney Criminal Lawyers® content team. Sonia is the winner of the Mondaq Thought Leadership Awards, Spring 2022.

Will COVID Passports Be Yet Another Expensive Government Failure?

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As the NSW Government ramps up its plans to incorporate “Covid vaccination status’ into the QR check in via the Services NSW app, security experts have found major security flaws in the Federal Government vaccination certificates, which potentially puts the...

‘Health Authoritarianism’: NSW Health Confiscates Parcels Sent to Social Housing Residents

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Residents in Mission Australia’s Common Ground Facility in Camperdown are having care parcels that they’ve been sent from families and friends opened, searched, and items confiscated. The residential tower was placed into lockdown earlier this month after four residents tested...

Police Officer Challenges Government’s Vaccination Policy

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A New South Wales Police officer is taking legal action against the state Health Minister Brad Hazzard over the COVID-19 injection, which for many is for all intents and purposes mandatory if they wish to work and lead semi-normal lives....

Morrison’s Father’s Day Flight: Are We Really All In This Together?

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‘We’re all in this together” - it’s a phrase often used by politicians to suggest that everyone is equally affected by the current restrictions on movement and travel, and that each of us has to make sacrifices for the greater...

Jarryd Hayne Faces Civil Proceedings for Sexual Assault

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Former NRL golden boy Jarryd Hayne was found guilty earlier this year of two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, also known as ‘sexual assault’ under the law, during a retrial which occurred after an initial jury was unable to...

The Offence of Possessing a Commercial Quantity of Unlawfully Imported Border Controlled Drug

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Police arrested a 29-year old man on Thursday, 2 September 2021 at his home in Mt Colah in Sydney’s north, after raiding several properties including a storage facility in Hornsby. It has been alleged that the raids led to the...

Sydney Police Post Pictures of Work Party on Social Media

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Police at a Western Sydney police station are under investigation for allegedly holding a workplace party in contravention of the current Public Health Order. More than a dozen officers are said to have gathered in a common room at Mt...

District Court ‘Severity Appeals’ in NSW: Appeals from the Local to the District Court

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29-year old Victorian man Anthony Khallouf was arrested in Sydney just days before the planned protest in the CBD on Saturday, 24 August 2021, after travelling down from Queensland. Days before the planned gathering, Mr Khallouf uploaded a social media...

NSW Police Swarm on Anti-Lockdown Protesters Across the State

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It was common knowledge that truck drivers across the state planned a protest on 31 August, and that’s one of the incidents the New South Wales Police Force had been warning against and preparing for. But quite separate to those...

Calls to Release ‘Low Risk’ Inmates, as COVID Spreads in NSW Prisons

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The New South Wales Government has locked down prisons across the state, as the COVID-19 outbreak at the Parklea Correctional Centre hits more than 70 cases. Parklea is a large prison facility in North-West Sydney where inmates often spend their...
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