NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Recommends Immediate Steps Towards Decriminalising Cannabis
Despite NSW premier Chris Minns’ stated refusal to progress drug decriminalisation laws in this state, the NSW parliamentary committee inquiry into the impact of the regulatory framework for cannabis in NSW, has recommended steps towards the decriminalisation of the illegal...
Federal Corruption Watchdog Directed to Reconsider Refusal to Investigate Robodebt
The National Anti-Corruption Commission publicly announced in June that it would not be further inquiring into the Robodebt Royal Commission (RRC) submission that referred six public officials to the newly created federal integrity watchdog for official investigation, as it had...
Report Recommends Digital Tracking of Police Firearms, But Bigger Issues are at Play
The New South Wales Police Force conducted an internal review earlier this year after the alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies by police constable Beau Lamarre-Condon in the inner-city suburb of Paddington, by use of a police-issued firearm....
Queensland to Launch Draconian Crackdown on Youth Crime Wave That Doesn’t Exist
The Liberal National Party took out the Queensland election last weekend, with a landslide victory that saw the new government led by premier David Crisafulli taking out 53 seats in parliament compared with Labor’s 33 seats so far, following an...
Hazing Allegations Spur Calls for Discrete Criminal Offence
Recent allegations of hazing at the University of Sydney’s St. Paul’s College, where students allegedly gagged a fellow student with a sex toy during a mock trial, has sent shockwaves across the community and sparked fresh calls for legal reforms,...
Radio Host’s Outrage at Acknowledgement of Country Deflects from the Real Issues
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can offer an Acknowledgement of Country to any person at the beginning of a meeting, speech, event, or other gathering to recognise the traditional owners of the land and act as a positive step...
Criminal Prosecutions Soar Under New South Wales’ Unjust Drug Driving Laws
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released a report on 23 October 2024 which found that the number of people charged with drug driving offences over the past decade has increased from 1,409 to 13,815 annually. But notably,...
The Offence of Bribing a Foreign Public Official
The Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)(‘the Act’) is a piece of legislation that applies across Australia and contains offences relating to a wide range of criminal conduct. Many of those offences relate to offences committed overseas, as well as cross-national...
NSW Police Continue to Harass Motorists with Unjust Zero-Tolerance Drug Driving Laws
A NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) study released this week has found that over the period 2008 through to last year, roadside drug testing (RDT) in this state, which was rolled out in 2007, has dramatically increased...
Northern Territory Government’s Tough-on-Crime Laws Target Vulnerable Youths.
Newly minted Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro has been threatening to crack down on youth crime since she introduced her own set of bail measures into the unicameral NT parliament in 2022, and in the lead up to this...
