The New South Wales Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The drug diversion scheme that NSW premier Chris Minns quietly implemented in February, has been found not to be adequately working in terms of diverting people from the criminal justice system and towards a more health-based approach. Known as the...
The Right to Disconnect in Australia: What Does it All Mean?
Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 brought about by the Fair Work Amendment (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2023 will mean that from 26 August 2024, employees in businesses which employ more than 15 employees (non-small businesses) will have the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 17 to 23 June 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Jarryd Hayne’s Successful Sexual Assault Appeal: The Reasoning Behind the Judgment The complainant told a friend “[i]f those messages get out, I’m f***ed”. Her messages...
What Factors Are Considered When Determining Whether to Pursue a Retrial in NSW?
Former NRL star Jaryd Hayne walked from prison a free man last week, after having his convictions for sexual assault offences quashed on appeal. His fight for his freedom and reputation has been drawn out and complex, and the Office...
Murdoch Likens Bandt to Hitler, Despite Netanyahu’s Best Efforts at Achieving the Title
To be labelled a Nazi, or even worse, likened to the figure of Adolf Hitler, are some of the gravest charges an individual can be labelled with. And that’s, to state the obvious, because under Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis perpetrated...
Sure, Minns Promised a Drug Summit, But That Was When Seeking Election
Guess what? NSW premier Chris Minns hasn’t been the progressive politician he’d attempted to portray he would be during the 2023 election campaign. Indeed, it’s hard to believe, after a year of his leadership, that is the same guy, who...
Let’s Get Boyle: ATO Whistleblower’s Appeal Fails, Just Like Justice Under Dreyfus
Richard Boyle is the last man standing from the hitlist of three whistleblowers that the then Coalition government targeted for prosecution in 2018. Three former public servants, Witness K, David McBride and Richard Boyle, who’d all spoken out about government...
Academics Call for an End to Albanese’s Israel Complicity: Interview with Professor Stuart Rees
“Why collusion with this grotesque Israeli government?” Australian academics asked prime minister Anthony Albanese in a 14 June open letter, and they further raise the “sadness and despair” that his government’s unbridled support for Tel Aviv’s genocidal attack on Gaza...
Factcheck: Attorney General Claims, “By and Large, Children Are Not Gaoled in Australia”
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus introduced new laws on 5 June that will make it a crime to share deepfake porn online if the artificially generated individual looks over 18, and the sharer was reckless as to whether they consented,...
NACC Under Investigation for Corrupt Conduct, After Refusing RoboDebt Inquiry
Remember the calls for a federal ICAC now? The campaign was prominent during the later years of the recent decade of Coalition rule, when Scott Morrison was the top minister: a PM so drunk on power that he secretly swore...
