Eliminating $100 Notes Will Reduce Crime, say currency experts
Australian currency experts suggest that removing $100 notes from circulation will reduce organised crime and tax fraud. Professor Steve Worthington from Swinburne University says that while $30 billion worth of $AUD100 notes are currently in circulation, most people rarely carry...
Sixty Percent of Pregnant Women are Putting Children at Risk
Although a range of complex factors contribute to high incarceration rates amongst Indigenous youth in Australia, the impact of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) remains relatively unknown to the public. The Northern Territory’s Royal Commission into Juvenile Justice recently acknowledged...
Crime Rates in Australia: Don’t Be Brainwashed by Big Business
When H.L. Mencken famously remarked, “for every complex problem there is a solution; neat, simple and wrong”, he could have been describing Australia’s ‘tough-on-crime’ approach to criminal justice. Although crime rates have consistently fallen since 2001, the prison population has...
English Premier League: The ‘Football for Sale’ Scandal
Police in the United Kingdom have commenced investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption within English football. The move is a response to the “Football for Sale” report by the Daily Telegraph, which led to the resignation of England national...
Police Taser 12-Year Old Boy in the Back
Northern Territory police have come under fire for using a taser on a 12-year old boy, and for their use of tasers on children generally. The Incident The NT Ombudsman has requested a briefing from police after they tasered the...
NSW Government Forces ICAC Resignation
Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) commissioner, Megan Latham, announced her resignation just days after receiving information that she would lose her current position and forced to reapply under a restructure by the Baird government. Ms Latham had two years remaining...
Police Strike Force to Investigate Sydney Killings
NSW Police have developed a new strike force in an effort to stamp out gangland warfare, after the killing of several crime figures on Sydney’s streets in recent months. Investigations into a number of shooting deaths over the past 17...
Trump vs Clinton: Crime Policies of the US Presidential Candidates
Later today, voters will decide who will be the next US President. While Australia is on the other side of the world, US policies on domestic and international law enforcement are influential well beyond the country’s borders - and indeed...
Queensland Moves Towards a Bill of Rights
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the state will be moving towards a human rights charter, with a view to creating a bill of rights. The Labor Party leader did not explain the finer points of the proposal, but said...
Mullet Man Sues for Defamation
A western Sydney teenager whose photo went viral is suing several media outlets for defamation. Ali Mosslmani, known as Ziggy, was photographed at a friend’s 18th birthday last year and was soon made into a meme reproduced by the Daily...
