Duopoly Killjoys Cannabis Bill, as Historic First Vote Takes Place in Federal Parliament
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge is the first federal parliamentarian to have brought on a parliamentary vote on the question of legalising cannabis before Australian parliament, and there is a hell of a lot of people in the community that...
“Important to Stand with Us”: Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva on Rallying for First Nations Justice
The last 14 months around the globe have been marked by the horrors of the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also the rising realisation that western forces that have committed mass destruction upon Indigenous peoples in the past continue to...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter Over Killing of Great-Grandmother
34-year old New South Wales police officer, Kristian White, has been found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for discharging his taser and thereby causing the death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland at...
Final Rejection of Illegal COVID Policing as All Remaining Fines Are Revoked
New South Wales commissioner of fines administration, Scott Johnson, announced on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 that following legal representations made to him and the NSW police commissioner, he’d determined that the remaining 23,539 COVID-19 penalty notices that were issued to...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
“Deeply Ingrained Systemic Racism”: Wunna Nyiyaparli Elder Ailsa Roy on the Plight of Her People
The Wunna Nyiyaparli people of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region live close to land and their traditional way of life and customs, yet encroachments by mining companies onto their iron ore rich Country has resulted in a situation whereby they’re...
People’s Protest Scores a Resounding Victory Over State Repression as Coal Ship Blocked
A wave of euphoria swept across the thousands of civilians crowding Newcastle’s Horseshoe Beach at around 11.30 am on Sunday, as word spread that the 200-odd kayakers who’d managed to block the shipping lane into Newcastle Coal Port against the...
Criminal Offences of Injuring or Killing Australian Citizens or Residents Overseas
Six tourists including two young Australian women, both aged 19-years, are now deceased as a result of a mass poisoning in a popular South-East Asian holiday destination in Laos, after consuming drinks that are believed to have contained methanol. The...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 November 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Human Trafficking Offences in Australia: More Common Than Some May Think A man has been sent to prison after taking his wife and children overseas,...
Local Court Magistrates to Be Given the Title of Judges in New South Wales
The legal system in Australia is often been out of touch with modern society. And, perhaps, calling Local Court magistrates ‘Your Worship’ - which was the case until 2004 - was a reflection of this. In an attempt at that...
