Robodebt Report Reveals Federal Government’s Obsessive Demonisation of the Unemployed
Making jibes about welfare recipients, or dole bludgers, in the popular disparaging parlance, has, for decades, been an easy way to score political points, in a practice where those without employment and in need of a helping hand, are often...
The Offence of Engaging in Unqualified Legal Practice in Australia
A retired Qantas pilot has been fined $4,500 and placed on a one-year good behaviour bond in the Downing Centre local court for pretending to be a lawyer. 55-year old Nathaniel Whitehall flew planes for more than 20 years and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 July 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Criminal Offences Related To Unlawful Gambling in NSW An outline of the laws, defences and penalties that apply to unlawful gambling in New South Wales....
Supreme Court Challenge Could See All Remaining COVID Fines Declared Invalid
A fresh case filed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales could result in the remaining 29,017 fines issued for alleged failures to comply with public health orders ostensibly to protect against the spread of COVID-19 declared invalid. The...
Domestic Violence Blitz Raises Questions Regarding Lawfulness of Arrests
The New South Wales Police Force is boasting about the arrest of nearly 600 people during this week’s four-day operation targeting ‘domestic violence offences’. And as usual, the mainstream media is right behind them, labelling those arrested as ‘predators’ and...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Robbery While Armed with a Dangerous Weapon in NSW
A man has been charged with a string of offences over a spate of alleged armed robberies in Northern New South Wales. According to police, one of the incidents over which 41-year old John Cole was charged involved him breaking...
A Complete Clusterfuck: Illegal Munitions, North Atlantic Expansion and Vassal States
At the White House last Friday, US national security advisor Jake Sullivan dropped it on the globe that the Biden administration, despite its having held off for a long as it could, will now be supplying the Ukrainians with cluster munitions...
NSW Should Regulate Adult Cannabis Use Immediately, Then Enact a Legalised Market
Cannabis is being legalised the world over. And the reports coming out of those jurisdictions where the plant has been legalised in one form or another speak of nothing but positive results, whether that be in terms of public wellbeing,...
Ben Roberts-Smith Appeals Being Branded a War Criminal
Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team has filed an appeal against the findings of the Federal Court which determined that he was not defamed by the The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times, who accused him of committing international war...
Continued Legal Hotel Detention Confirms Australia a Human Rights Abuser in Law
Federal Court Justice Bernard Murphy ruled on 6 July that the practice of detaining refugees and those deemed unlawful noncitizens in hotels, which are then referred to as alternative places of detention (APODs), is within the bounds of Australian migration law....
