The Right to Party in Peace: NSW Heavy-Handed Drug Law Enforcement Is Unjustified
The NSW Police Force has spent $46 million dollars over the last decade in order to run its drug detection dog unit. This expenditure has led police officers to conduct 95,000 searches of civilians over the last ten years, with only...
Hate Speech, Gay Conversion and the NSW Faith Lobby: Minns’ Religious Freedoms Crusade
The tossing of international law out the window by Israel, as it attempts to wipe out the Palestinians of Gaza, in a war crimes bonanza so far six-weeks-long, has reverberated across a planet, which is mourning the loss of humanity...
Could Australian Politicians Be Complicit in Israeli War Crimes Perpetrated in Gaza?
A couple of hundred pro-Palestinian protesters converged on NSW premier Chris Minns’ Kogarah office on Monday. Their message was clear: if the Labor leader does not withdraw his support from the smorgasbord of war crimes that the Israeli government has unleashed...
“Ongoing Nakba. Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing”: APAN’s Noura Mansour on Gazan Atrocities
The wholesale massacre of 2.3 million Palestinians held captive within the borders of the 40-odd kilometre strip of land that is Gaza has continued for over 40 days now. And there are no signs of Israel slowing down its all-out...
How to Defend an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) in New South Wales
Having an application for an apprehended violence order (AVO) made against you can be stressful and indeed frustrating, especially where the grounds of complaint are false or do not tell the complete story. You’re immediately on the defensive, being put...
Producing Pornography in Australia – What Does The Law Say?
Whether you want to start an OnlyFans or create your own boutique production company, making smutty films involves navigating a variety of complex laws in Australia. Here’s a rundown of the rules. Is making pornography legal in Australia? The legal...
Do Courts Have to Use Preferred Pronouns for Transgender Defendants in Criminal Cases?
Earlier this month, children’s book author JK Rowling tweeted the following in regard to a new practice note that applies to South Australian courts regarding preferred pronouns: Asking a woman to refer to her male rapist or violent assaulter as...
That’s Hearsay So It’s Defamation! Explaining the Difference
The terms ‘hearsay’ and ‘defamation’ are often conflated by the general public, despite referring to very different legal principles. The ordinary meaning of ‘hearsay’ is information received from others which is not substantiated. In the legal context, it refers to...
Al-Shifa Hospital No More: Sydney Fills the Streets as the Horrors of Gaza Escalate
Six long weeks into the neocolonial crime of the century, Israel continues the all-out carpet-bombing assault on Gaza and has followed up with a ground invasion, as it ethnically cleanses the Palestinian population of the region with genocidal intent, and...
McBride’s Guilty Plea Has Sent a Chill Down the Spine of the Australian Polity
“That is a fatal blow,” said Mark Davis, the criminal lawyer representing former ADF legal officer David McBride, as he faces a five charge indictment for having blown the whistle on the Australian war machine in Afghanistan, which had fostered...
