Building a Rights-Centred Society: ALHR’s Kerry Weste on a Human Rights Act for NSW
The NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights for NSW Alliance recently hosted a forum of legal experts, which included former High Court Justice Michael Kirby, and it discussed the need for a Human Rights Act (HRA) for NSW, as such...
Radio Host’s Outrage at Acknowledgement of Country Deflects from the Real Issues
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can offer an Acknowledgement of Country to any person at the beginning of a meeting, speech, event, or other gathering to recognise the traditional owners of the land and act as a positive step...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 October 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Difference Between Cannabis Leaf and Plant for the Purpose of NSW Drug Offences “I am satisfied that the applicant could not in law have...
Criminal Prosecutions Soar Under New South Wales’ Unjust Drug Driving Laws
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released a report on 23 October 2024 which found that the number of people charged with drug driving offences over the past decade has increased from 1,409 to 13,815 annually. But notably,...
The Offence of Bribing a Foreign Public Official
The Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)(‘the Act’) is a piece of legislation that applies across Australia and contains offences relating to a wide range of criminal conduct. Many of those offences relate to offences committed overseas, as well as cross-national...
NSW Police Continue to Harass Motorists with Unjust Zero-Tolerance Drug Driving Laws
A NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) study released this week has found that over the period 2008 through to last year, roadside drug testing (RDT) in this state, which was rolled out in 2007, has dramatically increased...
Northern Territory Government’s Tough-on-Crime Laws Target Vulnerable Youths.
Newly minted Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro has been threatening to crack down on youth crime since she introduced her own set of bail measures into the unicameral NT parliament in 2022, and in the lead up to this...
NSW Police Are Strip Searching Around 100 Civilians at Public Train Stations Annually
New South Wales police officers accompanied by drug detection dogs randomly searching commuters at train stations have been part of life in Sydney since NSW parliament passed laws coming into effect in February 2002, that permitted the warrantless use of...
Police Protect the Wealthy, While Targeting and Ignoring the Needs of the Poor
The urgency of the situation is palpable as police appeal to the public for information regarding a missing woman in the Snowy Mountains, specifically in Kosciuszko National Park, located almost 500 km southwest of Sydney in the Australian Capital Territory....
Tertiary Educators Nationwide Demand Universities Boycott Israel
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for Palestine, the National Union of Students (NUS) and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) held a National Day of Action on Wednesday, in support of implementing an Institutional Academic Boycott of Israel, of which...
