Pro-Palestinian Rally on Gadigal 60 Weeks Strong: Gaza Genocide 60 Weeks Too Long
The 60th consecutive Palestine Action Group rally against the Gaza genocide took place on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Hyde Park North on Sunday, 1 December 2024 and, as is now the usual, the Free Palestine procession created a commanding din...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 25 November to 1 December 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Being a Victim of Domestic Violence Can Amount to a Mitigating Factor on Sentence A woman who poisoned her husband to death after being subjected...
Should the Use of Generative AI Be Permitted to Produce Court Documents?
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been all the rage in recent years - used in everything from photos, to videos, to internet and intra-website search, to document generation and even internet scams. In fact, the leading supplier of AI software...
Complaint Lodged Against Peter Dutton for Inciting Hatred Towards Palestinians
Australian law firm Birchgrove Legal has lodged a claim against Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), outlining that the politician who has the potential to be this nation’s next prime minister has been partaking...
Duopoly Killjoys Cannabis Bill, as Historic First Vote Takes Place in Federal Parliament
NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge is the first federal parliamentarian to have brought on a parliamentary vote on the question of legalising cannabis before Australian parliament, and there is a hell of a lot of people in the community that...
“Important to Stand with Us”: Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva on Rallying for First Nations Justice
The last 14 months around the globe have been marked by the horrors of the Israeli-perpetrated genocide in Gaza and also the rising realisation that western forces that have committed mass destruction upon Indigenous peoples in the past continue to...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter Over Killing of Great-Grandmother
34-year old New South Wales police officer, Kristian White, has been found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for discharging his taser and thereby causing the death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland at...
Final Rejection of Illegal COVID Policing as All Remaining Fines Are Revoked
New South Wales commissioner of fines administration, Scott Johnson, announced on Tuesday, 26 November 2024 that following legal representations made to him and the NSW police commissioner, he’d determined that the remaining 23,539 COVID-19 penalty notices that were issued to...
NSW Government to Revoke and Refund Remaining 23,000 COVID-19 Fines
The NSW government will revoke and repay over 23,000 fines issued during COVID-19 after garnering new and eye-opening legal advice that has changed its outlook on penalty notices. Several tens of thousands of fines for allegedly failing to comply with...
Wollongong Friends of Palestine’s Jet Hunt on the Ongoing Bisalloy Steel Community Picket
According to Wollongong Friends of Palestine organiser Jet Hunt, a “strong appetite for mass militancy” has taken hold across grassroots Australia, ever since Israeli forces unleashed a genocidal assault upon the Palestinians of the walled-in Gaza Strip fourteen months ago,...
