Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 December 2023
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Child Pornography and Child Abuse Material Offences Across Australia All states and territories have laws against possessing, producing and distributing sexually explicit images of children....
How Much Does a Lawyer Cost in Australia?
The cost of hiring a lawyer in Australia will depend on a range of factors, including the level of experience and expertise of the particular lawyer and law firm, including whether the firm is long-established and has lawyers who are...
US Summons Australia to the Middle East, as Congress Approves AUKUS Bill
US Congress passed the National Defence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which authorises the transfer of three US Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia that, in turn, will serve to strengthen US posture in the Indo Pacific region. The bill also...
True to Form: Victoria Police Continues to Permit Nazis to March in Public Unannounced
Victoria police has, yet again, reminded the public that when it comes to law enforcement bodies the nation over, officers have a tendency to sympathise with far-right on-the-street agitators, whereas when leftwingers get out there doing it for Palestine or...
Hiding Australia’s Complicity: Shoebridge on Wong’s Trumpian Denial of Weapons Export Probing
An Israeli-perpetrated genocide has been underway in Gaza for the last two and a half months, which has resulted in around 18,000 Palestinians having been slaughtered. And more than 7,000 of the overwhelmingly civilian dead have been made up of children. The...
“A Sense of Complicity in Genocide”: UniMelb for Palestine’s Dana Alshaer on the Lockheed Martin Partnership
“Why does our university have a partnership with a weapons manufacturer in the first place?” UniMelb for Palestine organising member Dana Alshaer asked Melbourne University vice chancellor Duncan Maskell, which was a recorded confrontation that has since gone viral across social media....
The Right to Silence in New South Wales
Unlike in the United States, there is no constitutional protection for the right to silence in Australia. Rather, the fundamental centuries-old democratic principle that a person’s silence cannot be used against them at a later time has developed through ‘common...
Albanese Has Thrown Open the Doors to Unquestioned US Military Presence and Control
Hawkish defence minister Richard Marles, in the second last sitting week of federal parliament this year, tabled a bill to amend defence trade control law, which seeks to streamline the financial exchange of defence and strategic goods between the AUKUS powers:...
Sydney’s Pro-Palestinians Condemn Ongoing Gaza Genocide and the Complicity of Albanese
The apartheid Israeli state continues its two-month-long all-out massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza. The operation, first framed around self-defence and revenge in response to Hamas attacks on Israelis, has long been laid bare as a sought-after landgrab awaiting for a...
Albanese’s “Enough is Enough” Stance on Assange Is Pitiful. The People Demand More
Greens Senator David Shoebridge told a crowd of Assange supporters over the weekend that “it is not enough” for the Albanese government to just “endlessly repeat the mantra that it has gone on too long” in regard to Washington’s attempt...
