The Right To Silence Across Australian Jurisdictions
The right to silence is not protected by the Australian Constitution, unlike in the United States where is is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to that nation’s constitution and reflected in what are commonly known as ‘Miranda rights’, also known...
Sydney’s Healthcare Workers Rally for Murdered Palestinian Colleagues
For those who’ve travelled further than the western mainstream media version of the multiple war crimes transpiring in Gaza, they know that the Netanyahu government has forged a new low for humanity, in terms of making targeting hospitals a norm of...
What is a Quashed Conviction in Criminal Law?
The woman who spent 20 years in prison over the deaths of her infant children has finally had her convictions for the offences of murder and manslaughter quashed by the highest criminal court in the state, the New South Wales...
Sydney’s Free Palestine Rallies Continue With No Sign of Stopping: Sunday’s Messaging in Photos
Masses of Sydney’s pro-Palestinians gathered again in Hyde Park to call for an end to the genocide that’s taking place in the Gaza Strip, as apartheid Israel’s far-right Netanyahu government continues to perpetrate the carnage, with around 18,000 Palestinians killed, 7,000 of...
There’s Nothing Sexier than Sexual Consent
There is nothing ‘sexier’ than consent’ - that’s the new message of a joint promotion by police in the Australian Capital Territory and the dating app Tinder. ACT Police and Tinder have teamed up to run a joint campaign to...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 December 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Child Pornography and Child Abuse Material Offences Across Australia All states and territories have laws against possessing, producing and distributing sexually explicit images of children....
How Much Does a Lawyer Cost in Australia?
The cost of hiring a lawyer in Australia will depend on a range of factors, including the level of experience and expertise of the particular lawyer and law firm, including whether the firm is long-established and has lawyers who are...
US Summons Australia to the Middle East, as Congress Approves AUKUS Bill
US Congress passed the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which authorises the transfer of three US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia that, in turn, will serve to strengthen US posture in the Indo Pacific region. The bill also...
True to Form: Victoria Police Continues to Permit Nazis to March in Public Unannounced
Victoria police has, yet again, reminded the public that when it comes to law enforcement bodies the nation over, officers have a tendency to sympathise with far-right on-the-street agitators, whereas when leftwingers get out there doing it for Palestine or...
Hiding Australia’s Complicity: Shoebridge on Wong’s Trumpian Denial of Weapons Export Probing
An Israeli-perpetrated genocide has been underway in Gaza for the last two and a half months, which has resulted in around 18,000 Palestinians having been slaughtered. And more than 7,000 of the overwhelmingly civilian dead have been made up of children. The...
