Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 June 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Right to Disconnect in Australia: What Does it All Mean? Australian employees will soon have the right to refuse unreasonable employment-related contact outside their...
White Man Terrorism Isn’t So Terrifying, as Far-Right Plan to Behead Labor MP Ignored
A 19-year old Anglo Australian male briefly entered Newcastle Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp’s office dressed in a military-style outfit and armed with a knife on Wednesday afternoon, with the intent to behead the parliamentarian as part of a self-confessed politically-motivated...
DPP Discontinues Sexual Assault Proceedings Against Jarryd Hayne
Former rugby league star Jarryd Hayne’s six-year legal battle has officially ended, with the sexual assault proceedings against him being formally discontinued. The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has determined that …’having carefully considered...
Victoria Police Provoke Protest to Facilitate Harsher Laws, Says Renegade Solidarity Audio Force
This weekend marks the 38th week of the Free Palestine protests being held across the nation. And by all accounts, except for the disinformation being peddled by untrustworthy major party politicians, these events have been peaceful, harmonious and family-friendly. The...
Duggan’s Stewing in Maximum Over US Extradition, But Like Assange, It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over
The nation of Australia is having a moment of collective elation, and rightly so. Julian Assange has just been freed after 12 years of extralegal persecution and, after the initial shock wears off, people are suddenly aware of new hope...
As Victoria Trials Pill Testing, It’s Time to Save NSW Youths Not Punish Them with Death
In late 2015, as the volume on the pill testing campaign was turning up due to a recent spate of festival deaths, there was a boat packed with pollies guarding the waters around prohibitive state drug regimes, with then NSW...
Julian Is Coming Home: Assange’s Plea Deal Freedom Is a Victory for Us All
Footage of Julian Assange sitting in a room close by a runway at London Stansted Airport, prior to walking freely from the building towards a small passenger plane and boarding at 5 pm local time Monday afternoon, was posted at...
Australian Vape Sales to be Restricted to Pharmacies
The Federal Government has rolled back aspects of its recently introduced laws regulating e-cigarettes, also known as ‘vapes’, but Australia is still set to become the first nation on earth to restrict the sale of the potentially harm minimising product...
The New South Wales Drug Diversion Scheme is an Abject Failure
The drug diversion scheme that NSW premier Chris Minns quietly implemented in February, has been found not to be adequately working in terms of diverting people from the criminal justice system and towards a more health-based approach. Known as the...
The Right to Disconnect in Australia: What Does it All Mean?
Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 brought about by the Fair Work Amendment (Right to Disconnect) Bill 2023 will mean that from 26 August 2024, employees in businesses which employ more than 15 employees (non-small businesses) will have the...
