As Online Content Fuels the Free Palestine Movement, Government Attempts to Suppress It
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), an armed libertarian socialist group of Indigenous peasants from the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, seized urban centres to establish autonomous decentralised zones on 1 January 1994: the day the North Atlantic Free...
NSW Government’s Youth Incarceration Drive Lacks Vision or “Any Deep Sense of Justice”
“No one wants to be in the situation where we are locking up young people,” NSW premier Chris Minns told Sunrise on 18 March 2024, just days after his government’s new tough-on-youth-crime laws were introduced into state parliament, and the...
Proposed Federal Anti-Hate Speech Laws: Silencing Outrage Over Gaza
Israel recently dropped huge metal bombs on Palestinian civilian refugees, mainly women and children, sheltering in tents in an area of Rafah that Israel had designated a safe zone. Yet, those in the Australian community making loud protestations about this...
Attorney-General Can Save Dan Duggan from US Extradition Over China Panic Pretext
New South Wales Magistrate Daniel Reiss gave the greenlight to the US request to extradite former US marine and current Australian citizen Dan Duggan at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Friday, 24 May 2024,which is a decision that has...
Victoria Police Apologies for Aboriginal Child Removals, Yet the Practice Is Ongoing
Victoria police chief commissioner Shane Patton last Friday apologised for the part state law enforcement played in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children, which was an apology that arose out of a suggestion from the truth-telling process undertaken by the...
Which Offences Can Be Captured By Traffic Enforcement Cameras?
Traffic enforcement cameras seem to be everywhere on our roads these days, whether in the form of red light cameras, fixed or mobile speed cameras, combined red-light speed cameras, mobile phone detection cameras or bus lane cameras. And while these...
Whistleblower’s Lengthy Sentence Will Deter Others from Exposing Crime and Corruption
Over eight years ending in early 2017, Major David McBride served as a legal officer for the Australian Defence Forces. And over the eight months to February 2012 and the five to December 2013, he served in Afghanistan as a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 May 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Bail Applications in NSW: Showing Cause and the Unacceptable Risk Test Some offences carry a right to bail, while others require the assessment of risk,...
With Boyle Next Up, It’s Time for Labor to Walk Its Talk on Whistleblowers
Not only were locals taken aback when lawyer David McBride was given such a severe prison sentence last week, close to six years inside for leaking information that exposed war crimes, but the global press appeared shocked that Australia was...
Gaoling Kids to Make It Safer is Ridiculous, Says ALS’ Karly Warner, as Minns Does Just That
“Locking up children in prison and thinking that that is going to make communities safer is ridiculous,” said Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT chief executive Karly Warner on 12 March. “This has not worked in a single place that it’s been...
