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...
Parole in New South Wales: What Are the Benefits and Risks of Granting Parole?
A recent decision to grant parole to a murderer who attempted to sexually assault a woman when he was last paroled has many up in arms. But while the decision by the NSW State Parole Authority to release convicted murderer...
The Offence of Sexual Intercourse with a Child Aged Between 10 and 14 Years in NSW
A sitting member of New South Wales parliament has resigned from the Liberal Party after being charged with multiple child sexual offences. Pittwater MP Roderick “Rory” Gilmore Amon was charged on Friday, 30 August 2023 with 10 sexual offences, comprising...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 26 August to 1 September 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Should Australian Government Departments Pay Barristers More? There are calls to lift the 13-year freeze on barrister pay, as big business is increasingly able to...
Australian Government Talks Big About Protecting Whistleblowers, While Criminally Prosecuting Them
The South Australian District Court last year found that Richard Boyle was correct in blowing the whistle on the Australian Taxation Office over its breaching of a garnishee policy to dip into small business accounts to extract debts with the...
Albanese Cuts Secretive Military Deal with Indonesian President-Elect Prabowo
Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto was in Canberra early last week to meet with soon-to-be counterpart prime minister Anthony Albanese and to further negotiate a new defence deal, in his current capacity as Indonesian defence minister with our own defence minister...
“A One Stop Genocide Shop”: Disrupt Land Forces’ Nathalie Farah on the Imperative to Mobilise
For some reason, in 2022, when the organisers of Australia’s biggest weapons manufacturing trade show, Land Forces, decided to vacate Meanjin-Brisbane as its base, due to the ongoing disruptions from a long-term campaign against it, Disrupt Land Forces, they moved...
Country Liberals to Lower the Excessively Low Bar on Punishing Indigenous Kids
The Country Liberal Party (CLP) landslide victory in last Saturday’s Northern Territory election brings with it a type of foreboding, that, while not of the same global magnitude that a 2024 Trump US election victory would bring, but it is...
Federal Labor Passes Union Busting Laws, Instead of Dealing with Individual Criminals
Unions rallied nationwide on Tuesday in response to union-busting legislation that federal Labor, with bipartisan approval, has just passed in regard to the CFMEU, which threaten the working conditions and rights of all union members in the long run if...
Australia’s Role in the Coming US-Stoked World War is Ever-Increasing
US Republican congressman Michael McCaul was recently here spruiking the benefits of the inroads his nation is making onto this continent, which consists of, as our defence minister Richard Marles recently put it, US “force posture now in… every domain:...
