Morrison Legislates to Enhance the Mass Deportation of Residents
Fortress Australia champion and prime minister of the nation Scott Morrison oversaw the passing of a raft of amendments to the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) in November 2014. These served to strengthen the character test set out in section 501...
How the Overturning of the US Right to Abortion Could Bode for Australia
The 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v Wade determined that a Texas law preventing abortion unless a women’s life was in danger was unconstitutional. And this finding established a national right to abortion, which prohibits states from banning it prior to foetal...
COVID-19 Restrictions Cause Unprecedented Court Delays
Court delays and lack of funding for the criminal justice system are significant problems across Australia for years. But a recent case of a man whose trial was delayed through COVID-19 restrictions, resulting in a four-year gap between his arrest...
The Offence of Supplying a Commercial Quantity of Prohibited Drugs in New South Wales
A Sydney woman described as a ‘Bondi party girl’ who pleaded guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of cocaine over her participation in a dial-a-dealer drug supply operation has been sentenced to imprisonment. 26-year old Danielle Hogan earned herself a...
Sydney Christian School Faces Fresh Allegations of Child Sexual Assault
The Anglican school at the centre of several child sexual assault allegations is on the wrong side of the law once again. A former pupil of Trinity Grammar School in Sydney has alleged that he was repeatedly sexually assaulted in...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Shoplifting in New South Wales
The New South Wales Police Force has reported that 84 people were arrested during a three-day operation targeting shoplifting across the Sydney CBD, Ultimo and Bondi areas on 8, 9 and 10 December 2021. Operation Lightfingers comprised officers from the...
NSW Police Officer Found Guilty of Perjury
A New South Wales police officer who lied in court to support a fake sexual assault claim made by his partner, has been found guilty of perjury. In 2014, Sarah Jane Parkinson claimed that her former partner slammed her head...
Myanmar Leader Aung San Suu Kyi May Spend the Rest of Her Life in Prison
Former Myanmar state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will continue to spend more of her life under the imprisonment of the nation’s ruling military junta, after she was sentenced on Monday to four years prison time, which army chief Min...
The Offence of Drink Spiking in New South Wales
With vaccination rates high and people starting to go out and socialise again, sinister reports of women being injected by mystery substances in popular night spots have emerged in New South Wales. At least six women have come forward to...
NSW Is Incarcerating First Nations People for Fishing in Their Own Waters
“They’ve been prosecuting our people down here for cultural fishing,” said Wally Stewart. “There is a law that gives us a right to fish, which is section 211 of the Native Title Act. And it’s been Commonwealth law that fisheries have...
