Senate Calls on Australian Government to Intervene in Child Prisons
UTS Jumbunna Institute senior researcher Paddy Gibson outlined in Solidarity recently that the incarceration of First Nations people has increased under the Albanese government, with 12,556 Indigenous people in Australian prisons over the first quarter of 2022, compared with 15,070...
NSW Government’s Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The Early Drug Diversion Initiative that was quietly implemented by the Minns government early this year, has again been found to be an abject failure, and no one who’s been paying attention to the drug law reform debate in NSW...
Israel’s Terrorism Attack on Lebanon Sets Precedent for Future Commercial Device Attacks
At around 3.30 pm on Tuesday in Lebanon, pagers belonging to Hezbollah-affiliated individuals peeped as a message arrived that served to garner attention and explode the devices that had been tampered with prior to purchase, so that they acted as...
A Rogue and Armed VicPol Goes Ballistic on Peace Protesters: Interview With XR’s Violet and Brad
A week on from the Disrupt Land Forces protests that happened in Naarm-Melbourne on 11 September, the Victoria police response to the thousands of peace activists who turned up to demonstrate against a weapons trading show continues to stun the...
What is the Likely Penalty for Robbery Offences in New South Wales?
A Sydney man is facing charges of aggravated robbery, police pursuit, and take & drive conveyance over allegations he forcibly took a taxi from a driver. Officers attached to Cumberland Police Area Command were patrolling Merrylands in Western Sydney at...
The Soft US Military Takeover of Australia Is Simply a “Pooling of Sovereignty”
Australian sovereignty has always been tenuous, as the grounds upon which the British Crown claimed the great southern continent as its own were based on the Doctrine of Discovery and the legal concept of terra nullius, which stipulate that an...
US Case Against Duggan Is “Vague, Embarrassing and Oppressive” Lawyers Tell Dreyfus
As she stood before the press at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks on Monday morning, Saffrine Duggan asserted that the US can’t “just snatch Australians off the street and send them to the US based on” flawed evidence and questionable process....
NSW Police Inquiry Finds that Sending Officers to Mental Health Incidents Escalates Them
In the wake of an internal review, the NSW Police Force last Thursday released a summary of findings regarding its officers continuing to be called upon as first responders to mental health incidents, and the agency is clear in stating...
‘Sexsomnia’ and the Legal Defence of Automatism in New South Wales
A Sydney man has been found not guilty of a string of sexual offences against children after raising evidence that he was asleep and suffering from ‘sexsomnia’ during the incidents, and that he was therefore acting involuntarily – a requirement...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 September 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Lawyer Caught Out Submitting AI Generated List of Fabricated Cases to Court The lawyer used popular legal software to generate a list of supposed legal...
