The Encryption Wars Continue as ASIO Demands Big Tech Unlock Private Messaging
The ABC’s 7.30’s Sarah Ferguson was last week invited into an ASIO 75th anniversary exhibition that’s usually only open to former ASIO officers, not just to give us a glimpse of how taxpayers are funding private shows for spooks but...
Victoria Police to Unleash Excessive Policing Powers on Disrupt Land Forces
Although Disrupt Land Forces officially kicked off on Sunday, Naarm-Melbourne’s notorious Lizard Car made an appearance on the city’s West Gate Freeway on the day prior, as it came to a halt in the middle of an offramp with a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 September 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Sexual Intercourse with a Child Aged Between 10 and 14 Years in NSW A member of NSW parliament has resigned after being...
The Right to Rape Prisoners and Other New Lows in the Nation of Israel
Many Australians may have missed the right to rape political prisoners debate, the rallying and the rioting in support of it that has occurred over the last month or so in the state of Israel, as it didn’t feature prominently...
Police Watchdog Finds that Officer Who Fabricated Evidence Engaged in ‘Serious Misconduct’
Nowra man Luke Brett Moore raised a complaint with the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission in May 2021, regarding a phone conversation he’d had with NSW police constable Daniel Keneally that, he claimed, led the officer to subsequently fabricate evidence against...
As Victoria Police Targets Protesters, Palestinian Message Rings True: An Interview with WACA’s Sam Castro
Labor leaders jumped to attention last October, as they ardently spruiked the falsehood about Israel and its right to defend itself, while the Netanyahu government was actually perpetrating a wholesale slaughter and starvation project upon the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians...
Second First Nations Youth Death in Custody in WA in Less Than a Year
A second First Nations youth died in the custody of the WA state, when, last Thursday night, a yet-to-be identified 17-year-old First Nations youth took his own life, after being imprisoned for two days at that state’s only child prison:...
Germany Sets Cannabis Driving Limits, While NSW Continues to Unfairly Criminalise Users
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier signed off on legislation a fortnight ago to set a limit for driving under the influence of cannabis, with the new legal limit that’s now taken effect being 3.5 nanograms of THC per millilitre of blood....
Life Imprisonment Without Parole: Is It Ever in the Interests of the Community?
The sentencing of 33-year old Justin Laurens Stein to life in prison without parole for the January 2022 murder of 9-year old schoolgirl Charlise Mutton at Stein’s family home at Mount Wilson in the New South Wales Blue Mountains has...
Former Magistrate Heilpern Tells It Straight on Parochial NSW Cannabis Prohibition
When former NSW Lismore Magistrate David Heilpern gave up the gavel a few years back, the NSW Northern Rivers community were saddened to see him go, as instead of applying major party ethics at the bench, he was a judicial...
