Prohibiting Under 16s From Using Social Media: A Futile Response to Far Deeper Issues
The Australian Government has confirmed it will introduce legislation into Parliament with a view to achieving what seems to be the impossible – prohibiting those under the age of 16 years from accessing social media platforms. And while the populist...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 4 to 10 November 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: A Prison Sentence Can Only to Be Imposed If No Other Penalty Is Inappropriate The appeal court emphasised that “a court must not sentence an...
McBride’s Appeal Is in Jeopardy, as the Respected Lawyer Needs Finances to Fund It
For his troubles in having exposed the lawless nature of the Australian war effort in Afghanistan mid-last decade, which led to the unchecked perpetration of alleged war crimes by Australian special forces officers, ADF whistleblower David McBride is currently serving...
Australia’s Committing Cultural Genocide Upon a First Peoples in Favour of Mining Interests
Australia has stonewalled the UN Human Rights Committee (CCPR), after it ordered the nation to provide “an effective and enforceable remedy” to the Wunna Nyiyaparli of Western Australia’s eastern Pilbara region in July 2023, in response to a complaint regarding...
Trump’s Mission to Strip LBGTQIA+ Rights, And How It Could Impact on Australia
It seemed outrageous for Trump to be elected as President in 2016 when he was up Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, a person many saw as an inclusive candidate with a clear vision for the future, and the policies to go...
Activists Vow to Proceed with Newcastle Coal Port Blockade, Despite Court Prohibition
Despite the NSW Supreme Court having ruled on Thursday, 7 November 2024 that The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port set to take place over the weekend of the 22nd to 25th of November not being able to...
Australia Under Trump: Will We Continue to Be the Lapdog of the United States?
Australia has maintained strong ties with the United States for generations – a relationship deeply rooted in our shared Anglo-Celtic heritage, predominantly Christian belief system and history of colonialism. And despite our former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating’s push for...
Prosecuting the King, the Attorney General and a Netanyahu Advisor Over Genocide: A Yarn with Uncle Robbie Thorpe
The state of Israel has engaged local lawyers to represent it, on behalf of former senior advisor to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev, as the Australian Israeli diplomat has been charged with advocating genocide, contrary to section 80.2D...
“Genocide as Colonial Erasure”: Francesca Albanese’s Second Report on Gaza
In her new report Genocide as Colonial Erasure, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, suggests that the last year of genocidal violence perpetrated by Israel upon Palestinians...
The Potential Impact of Trump’s Election on Civil Liberties in the US and Abroad
It may have seemed far-fetched in 2016 that a demonstrably misogynist, racist, and sexist man who defrauded and destroyed many in the past during his failed business ventures, many of which ended up in bankruptcy, to be voted as the...
