Australia Assists United States to Attack Houthis in Yemen
Australia provided assistance to the United States in carrying out its 17 October 2024 attack against Houthi positions in Yemen. And it’s now apparent that ever-increasing US force posture on this continent, which is usually considered to be in aid...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 14 to 20 October 2024
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: “Killed, and for What End?”: Tasnim Sammak on Marking October 7th for Palestine Australian politicians and mainstream media are attempting to demonise the October 7...
New South Wales Parliament Passes Greatly Diluted LGBTIQA+ Equality Laws
Transgender people in NSW will no longer have to “undergo surgery before they can change their sex on their birth certificate” as of 1 July next year. And this long-sought reform brings this state’s laws into line with other Australian...
Moving Away from War Against Drugs Brings Enormous Benefits
The global failure of the decades-long war on drugs has resulted in a myriad of issues for jurisdictions that continue to plough resources into enforcement and retain a model which sees addiction as a criminal law problem rather than a...
Civil Liberties Groups Condemn NSW Government’s Further Encroachment on Right to Protest
The backlash against New South Wales premier Chris Minns’ suggestion that the NSW Police Force ought to have the capacity to deny rally organisers, who have lodged a protest notification form with the agency, the right to protest if they...
New South Wales Police Accused of Racial Profiling Students
Accusations of racial profiling are being levelled against New South Wales police officers who arrested two Western Sydney University students in their early twenties, who were involved in a protest at the institution’s Parramatta South campus on 9 October 2024,...
Neo-Nazis Mobilisations Are Becoming Normalised on Australian Streets
“When you dare stand up against the people that are destroying not just this town but this country, when you stand up against BlackRock and international finance, they come after your family, they come after your bank accounts, they firebomb...
Crime, Corruption and Coercion Rife Within the Australian Border Force
Lieutenant General Gavan Reynolds, the first defence intelligence chief, was appointed as the Australian Border Force Commissioner yesterday. The Order of Australia member brings a wealth of experience to his new role as the Australian Border Force Commissioner. His previous...
National Anti-Corruption Commission Hearings Will Continue to Be Held in Secret
As an omnibus bill passed the Senate on 10 October that clarified within various pieces of legislation, including the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2022 (Cth), that digital assets can be seized in regard to proceeds of crime cases, Senators David...
Drug Seizures May Suggest a Drug War Victory – But the Reality is Very Different
The mainstream media has for many years acted as a vehicle for law enforcement agencies across our nation to market drug raids as a positive step in the decades-long war against drugs. But the fact of the matter is the...