“All of Australia is the West Bank”: An Interview with Camp Sovereignty’s Uncle Robbie Thorpe
As Uncle Robbie Thorpe tells it, the reason for lighting the fire at and establishing Camp Sovereignty on Boonwurrung Country in the area also known as Melbourne’s Kings Domain on 12 March 2006, and again on 26 January, is the...
NSW Police Out of Mardi Gras Has Been a Long-Time Coming, as March Requests Cops Not Attend
The long-time-coming disinviting of the NSW Police Force from this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is no surprise. The circumstances that saw the Mardi Gras Board finally agree with long-term calls for the cops out of Mardi Gras...
Despite the Evidence on the DFAT Site, Wong Still Denies Recent Weapons Exports to Israel
“We know that Australia is not just silent when it comes to the genocide, but Australia is deeply complicit,” said Greens Senator David Shoebridge at the 25 February Palestine Action Group rally in Gadigal-Sydney’s Hyde Park. This was the 20th...
Australia Will Detain Citizens in Long-Term Isolation Without Charge, On the Say So of the US
The use of solitary confinement or isolation is controversial to say the least, as this method of punishing an inmate by detaining them alone in a cell is said to cause psychological harm. And when it comes to prolonged isolation,...
“The Last Setter Colonial Project”: Gadigal-Sydney Won’t Stop Demanding Gaza Ceasefire
“I stand before you here as someone who has lost 70 members of the Zorob family since the start of the genocide and many others before,” local Palestinian man Mohamed Zorob told the 20th Palestine Action Group rally of Gaza...
The Offence of Assault Causing Death Whilst Intoxicated in NSW
A New South Wales man has been charged with assault causing death over the death of a security guard outside Royal Hotel at Sutherland in Sydney’s south. The 30-year old security guard, who had moved from Saudi Arabia to Australia...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 February 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Criminal Offences of Blackmail and Extortion Across Australia Blackmail and extortion involve the exertion of undue pressure with a view to having another engage in...
Don Dale to Be Torn Down, But Australia Continues to Lag Behind on Youth Justice Reform
A new youth detention centre is only months away from opening in the Northern Territory, which means the State Government will finally tear down one of Australia’s toughest, most notorious youth facilities, Don Dale Detention Centre. Abuses of children and...
Assange Appeals for His Life, Global Press Freedoms and International Justice
Award-winning Australian Journalist Julian Assange was too sick to attend the most vital appeal of the US request to extradite him, which the UK has already greenlighted, and this was because the White House and 10 Downing Street have been...
The Marrickville Declaration Asserts Civil Society Resistance to AUKUS
Former PM Scott Morrison is the architect of AUKUS: a pact between Australia, the UK and the US involving exorbitant costs, increasing militarisation of the public sphere, the introduction of nuclear military technology and an ever-growing US military presence on...
