Sentence for Officer Who Killed Great-Grandmother by Taser Is Manifestly Inadequate
The former police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at an aged care facility in southern New South Wales has been given a non-custodial sentence, with many expressing the view that the penalty is far...
Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
Political Block on Atrocity Prosecutions Remains, As Major Parties Reject Genocide Reforms
The Labor-Liberal ruling duopoly voted down Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Genocide Bill in the Senate on Wednesday, which meant the major parties agreed that a political veto afforded the attorney general in respect progressing atrocity crime prosecutions, that ensures inequality before...
New South Wales Launches Yet Another Crackdown on Youth Crime
The New South Wales Police Force launched yet another regional youth crime crackdown on 19 March 2025, as deputy commissioner Paul Pisanos told Nine’s Today that the new Operation Soteria has been put into effect to address what police see...
Calls for Inquiry into NSW Hate Crimes Offences Justified by Fake Terror Plot
In the wake of revelations on 3 March 2025 that the spate of so-called antisemitic crimes perpetrated on Gadigal land in Greater Sydney over December 2024 and January 2025 were a “fabricated terrorism plot”, there are now mounting calls to...
The Slippery Slope Towards Criminalising Criticism of Israel and Zionism
Victoria police has charged well-known Naarm-Melbourne pro-Palestinian figure Hash Tayeh with four counts of “using insulting words in public” on Friday, 7 March 2025, in relation to his having allegedly repeatedly chanted, “All Zionists are terrorists” at a rally in...
The “Antisemitic” Terror Plot Was Fabricated, Yet Resulting Hate Crime Laws Remain
The deputy commissioners of both the AFP and the NSW police announced on Monday that a series of so-called antisemitic crimes that took place on Gadigal land in Greater Sydney over December and January, were part of an elaborate hoax...
Antisemitism Threat to Australia: A ‘Complex Criminal Con-job’
We published an article on 3 February 2025 asserting that the incidents used by the mainstream media and politicians to generate the hysteria used to justify enacting antisemitism specific criminal offences had nothing to do with antisemitism at all -...
Former Magistrate Heilpern Continues to Call for Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence
Medicinal cannabis became a legally prescribed medicine on 30 October 2016, and despite immense teething issues in terms of the drug initially being legal but unobtainable, the Medical Board of Australia celebrated more than one million patients prescribed by January...
‘I’m Going to Christ Church 2.0 This Joint”: Islamophobia Alive and Well in Australia
A 16-year old’s recent arrest over alleged threats to perpetrate a mass shooting at a Sydney mosque is just part of the 580% rise in Islamophobic incidents across the nation - one which has largely been ignored by state, territory...
