Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Articles

Factcheck: Attorney General Claims, “By and Large, Children Are Not Gaoled in Australia”

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Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus introduced new laws on 5 June that will make it a crime to share deepfake porn online if the artificially generated individual looks over 18, and the sharer was reckless as to whether they consented,...

NACC Under Investigation for Corrupt Conduct, After Refusing RoboDebt Inquiry

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Remember the calls for a federal ICAC now? The campaign was prominent during the later years of the recent decade of Coalition rule, when Scott Morrison was the top minister: a PM so drunk on power that he secretly swore...

The Proposed Federal Offence of Sharing Deepfake Adult Porn in Australia

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Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus has introduced legislation that proposes new criminal offences to prevent the sharing of nonconsensual sexually explicit material online, including deepfakes, and making these offences consistent across the nation. Indeed, it’s the images created by artificial...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 June 2024

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Law, Defences, and Penalties for Possessing a Gel Blaster in Australia A teen was recently charged with unauthorised possession of a firearm for carrying...

Jarryd Hayne’s Successful Appeal: The Reasons for the Result

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Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne was released from custody this week after the highest criminal court in the state, the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) quashed his conviction for sexual assault after finding a miscarriage of justice...

Calling Australia Racist Is Forbidden, Yet Racialised Politicking Is Its Mainstay

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“Laura Tingle is one of Australia’s most experienced, knowledgeable and accomplished journalists,” said ABC director Justin Stevens, as he politely publicly reprimanded her on 29 May for making personal comments at a forum, which he claims failed to meet ABC...

Legalising and Regulating Cocaine Would Be a Sensible Lifesaving Reform

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Cocaine Inc, a new podcast series based on a joint investigation by The Times and News Corp, which covers the trade in illegal cocaine across six different countries that, as the narrator explains, is “an industry where the profits are...

The NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission: A Toothless Police Watchdog

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Despite long-term calls to reform a system that continues to position the NSW Police Force as the chief investigator of NSW police critical incidents, which are those that involve officers causing death or serious harm, the state law enforcement body...

Thorpe Calls for Human Rights Act, With Inclusion of Self-Determining Indigenous Rights

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Labor has reopened the debate around a Human Rights Act. Australia is the only liberal democracy without rights protections enshrined in federal law. And many locals remain unaware of this, despite it being an open secret over the entire history...

The Drug Offenders Program: Shane Prince SC and Jim Finnane on Early Intervention 

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The hardline approach taken to psychoactive drugs has pushed their use underground, which causes barriers to seeking help for those who develop problematic use, as they’re admitting to a crime, while the funding of an ever-increasing habit can also become...
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