Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone: An Activist-Run Police-Free Sector of Seattle
A black plastic tarpaulin sign hanging out the front of the now defunct Seattle Police Department East Precinct Building reads, “This Space Is Now Property of the Seattle People”, as the city and its local police abandoned the building on...
Fairer Fines for Social Security Recipients
Just when many thought the NSW Government didn’t have a heart, it has introduced a new policy that will enable financially strapped residents to have their fines halved. The extra good news is that the changes will take effect from...
Now Is the Time for First Nations Justice and Systemic Change
As protests against continuing First Nations deaths in custody began mobilising this month, prime minister Scott Morrison appeared on retrograde AM talkback radio stating that this nation “shouldn’t be importing the things that are happening overseas”. The bulwark of conservative...
Assaulting a Police Officer Defence Case Study
A 20-year old man from Curlewis, around 400 km north west of Sydney, has been charged with multiple criminal offences after a traffic stop in Telarah, 170 km north of Sydney, which occurred at around 8.40pm on Sunday, 21 June...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2020
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: What is Workplace Bullying in Australia? Radio shock-jock Ray Hadley is facing court for allegedly calling a colleague a “f***ing poof” and “f***ing spastic”, and...
Is It Legal to Carry a Knife in New South Wales?
The NSW Police Force has reported charging 91 people with criminal offences during a two-day operation on 18 and 19 June 2020 which targeted ‘knife crime’ in Sydney’s south-western suburbs. Operation Saber II involved all nine South West Metropolitan Region...
Judge Threatens Peter Dutton With Contempt of Court Charges
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has again shown that he feels he is above the law, causing long delays in an immigration case which involves a protection visa for an Iranian man. Visa application in court A Federal Court...
“Nothing But Utter Contempt”: Shoebridge Takes a Racially Tone Deaf Government to Task
David Shoebridge held up a mirror to Berejiklian government ministers on Tuesday indicating just how skewed their priorities are. The NSW Greens MLC did this as the Coalition - with the backing of Labor and One Nation - moved a...
Defund the NSW Police Force Movement Gains Traction
The recent Stop All Black Deaths in Custody rally brought central Sydney to a standstill, as citizens from all backgrounds came together to call for an end to the systemic racism and violence in the NSW policing and criminal justice...
Ms Dhu’s Death in Custody Leads to Law Reform
Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu (whose name is not used for cultural reasons) was just 22 years old when she was dragged from her police cell at South Headland in Western Australia and bundled into the back of a police van,...
