Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 July 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Australia Is Obliged to Investigate Citizens Fighting for Israel, Says the ACIJ’s Rawan Arraf Our government has done nothing to warn let alone take steps...
Facing 35 Years Imprisonment for Disrupting Burrup Hub: Interview With DBH’s Joana Partyka
Right now, in the northern hemisphere, across Asia and Africa, the worst heatwaves ever have been playing out all at once. Temperatures have been creeping into the 50 degrees Celsius range, people have been suffering through above-40 degrees heat for...
“War Crimes Enabled Here”: Activists Call Out Albanese Subservience on Taking Parliament House
Four members of Renegade Activists appeared atop Parliament House in Canberra midmorning on Thursday to unfurl banners expressing what many amongst us have become increasingly distraught about over recent months, which is that the Albanese government is enabling genocide. “Today,...
White Supremacist Stabs Man in Sydney, But Terrorism Police Stumped as to His Ideology
White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, an Anglo Australian man from the NSW town of Grafton, walks into two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 and guns down 51 Muslim worshippers. The killer produced a far-right manifesto. He had links to Australian...
NSW District Court Judge and Director of Public Prosecution at Loggerheads
New South Wales District Court Judge Penelope Wass has lodged a complaint to the Office of the Legal Services Commissioner against the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Sally Dowling, citing a series of grievances that have strained their professional...
Blockade Australia Has Shut Down Newcastle Coal Line for 10 Days Straight: Interview With Grace
Blockade Australia is back with a vengeance, as the network of climate defenders have been busily undertaking a sustained action against the resource rail line leading from the interior out to Newcastle Coal Port: the planet’s largest such port. But...
The Ongoing Crackdown on the Naarm Palestine Rally Is Targeting the Right to Protest
The local pro-Palestinian movement has become a force to be reckoned with over the last ten months. And the focal point of it has been the massive nonviolent and family-orientated street protests that have marched through the continent’s major cities...
Judge’s Complaint Against DPP Highlights the Injustice of Prosecuting Meritless Sexual Assault Claims
New South Wales District Court Judge Penelope Wass has made a formal complaint to the Legal Services Commissioner against the state’s chief prosecuting lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions, Sally Dowling SC, after Ms Dowling allegedly raised ‘secret grievances’ about Judge...
Drop the Criminal Charges Against Richard Boyle: His Actions Embodied Public Interest
The nation of Australia is still glowing in the wake of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being released and returning to be with his family in this country, and rightly so. Over the last decade, a local and global grassroots campaign...
Ban on Retail Sales of Nicotine-Free Vapes Makes No Sense At All
As of Monday, 1 July 2024, vapes are only available at pharmacies throughout Australia and for the first three months, sales of the products that are designed to be a safer alternative to smoking are by prescription only. The main...
