Higher Bail Threshold and Monitoring Devices Proposed for Alleged Domestic Violence Offending
The New South Wales government’s latest response to the epidemic of domestic violence across the state is to make it harder for those charged with domestic violence offences to achieve bail and to require monitoring devices to be worn by...
New South Wales Offences for Selling, Advertising and Promoting Tobacco and E-Cigarettes
The prices for tobacco products in Australia have skyrocketed in recent years, making our nation one of the most expensive in the world for cigarettes, cigars, loose tobacco and other items containing the plant. And while this has contributed to...
As Israel Establishes Extermination Zones, South Africa Calls for ICJ Intervention
Over the last seven months, Israel has carpet bombed, chased, traumatised and humiliated Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, to the point that 1.5 million of the 2.3 million civilians are now congregated in the southernmost city of Rafah, which has...
First Nations Oppose Ongoing Landgrab as Labor Relaunches Gas-Led Recovery
Resource minister Madeline King announced the Future Gas Strategy on 9 May, which involves increased investment in gas, a fossil fuel that produces emissions that increase climate change, to reduce the impacts of climate change, along the way to net...
Systemic Criminal Justice Bias Sees Only Muslim Crime Designated as Terrorism
In the wake of two mid-April Sydney stabbings that garnered intense public attention, not only due to the violence involved, but also the subsequent divergent manner in which the NSW Police Force and, indeed, politicians and intelligence agencies, have approached...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 May 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Court Shows Leniency to White Australian Who Repeatedly Advocated Terrorism Offences The leniency shown to a Caucasian man who called for the execution of...
Albanese Seeks to Silence Social Media and Thereby Dictate the Agenda and Control the Narrative
Since the mid-April stabbings in Sydney’s Bondi Junction and Wakeley, the federal government has heightened the campaign around yet-to-be-introduced laws designed to crackdown on online mis- and disinformation that’s not linked to government, mainstream media or the education sector. A...
Stray Australian Chopper in Beijing’s Waters Whips Up China Panic
“Off the South Korean coast, an Australian warship” has been helping enforce UN sanctions against” North Korea, the ABC reported on Wednesday. And it then explained that a helicopter from the ship, operating “over international waters” last week, “was intercepted...
NSW Police to Be Given Power to Wand Individuals Without Reasonable Suspicion
Despite a decadelong social campaign to see the warrantless encroachment of New South Wales police officers into the private space of civilians, specifically in the form of strip searches and those related to sniffer dogs, the Minns government is legislating...
McBride’s Case Highlights Dissolving Justice and Transparency in Australia
Justice David Mossop of the ACT Supreme Court is currently considering the criminal penalty that is to be imposed on well respected whistleblower David McBride: a lawyer who considers the principles of justice and honour of such high value that...
