Double Demerits and Heavy Policy Presence this King’s Birthday Long Weekend
Double demerit points apply to speeding offences, illegally using a mobile phone while driving, not wearing a seatbelt and riding without a helmet throughout New South Wales from 12.01am on Friday, 6 June until 11.59pm on Monday, 9 June 2025....
Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Defence Introduce in NSW Parliament
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has long been attempting to address the legal anomaly that sees prescribed users of medicinal cannabis at risk of losing their drivers licence whenever behind the wheel, including when unimpaired. Yet, with the...
Constructive Murder in NSW: Homicide That Occurs During Another Serious Criminal Offence
At about 12.30 am on 24 May 2020, a man referred by the NSW Supreme Court as DPD and four other men, DJD, EE, Murdoch and Shillingsworth, were driving towards the home of Kevin Kourtis, which was located on Langton...
Australian Authorities Play Dumb Over Yet Another Aboriginal Death in Custody
Two plainclothes police officers intervened in an altercation in Alice Springs Coles supermarket at around 1.10 pm on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, which involved two security guards and a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities. The police used force to get...
McBride Heads to the High Court, After His Draconian Sentence Stands on Appeal
ACT Court of Appeal Justice Belinda Baker took the bench on Wednesday, 28 May 2025 to deliver the outcome of Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride’s appeal against his conviction and sentence, to simply announce that the appeal had been...
Queensland Expands Regime to Imprison Kids on Adult Time, Ignoring the UN
The Crisafulli government passed its second tranche of its “adult crime, adult time” laws on 22 May 2025, as part of a draconian policy designed to crackdown on a non-existent youth crimewave that now sees children aged 10 to 17,...
High Time: NSW Government to Consider Passing Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Unlike other prescription drug users, those who are prescribed medicinal cannabis in New South Wales can lose their driver licences and obtain a criminal conviction if they are found to be driving with any trace of the medicine in their...
In Committing the War Crime of Starvation, Israel Is Killing Off Babies and International Law
“There are 14,000 babies that will die within the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned the BBC on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 in respect of aid trucks then lined up at the...
New Footage of Melbourne Synagogue Torching Reminiscent of Fake Sydney Attacks
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team released the footage of the arson attack targeting the Naarm-Melbourne Adass Israel Synagogue that happened after 4 am on 6 December 2024, at a time when so-called “antisemitic” crime was the major headline, and the...
Resisting the Suppression of Western Colonial Crimes: Interview with Activist Stephen Langford
On 8 May 2025, New South Wales District Court Judge Christine Mendes quashed the Local Court conviction of Sydney activist Stephen Langford for the offence of intentional or reckless damage or destruction to property, after finding that his act of...
