What is the Standard Non-Parole Period for Murder in New South Wales?
Former New South Wales police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon appeared via audio visual link in Downing Centre Local Court yesterday charged with murdering Jesse Baird and his boyfriend, Luke Davies, inside a home in Sydney on 19 February 2024. The 29-year...
Should There Be a Ban on Publishing the Identity of Non-Convicted Defendants?
A promising young rugby union player is facing a jury trial over allegations he exchanged sexually explicit images and engaged in sexual conduct with two underage girls. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions alleges that the now 23-year...
NSW Government Re-Commits to Failed Zero Tolerance Approach Ahead of Drug Summit
NSW is so ready for drug law reform that it hurts to watch a party like NSW Labor come to power, with many members, just like all the NSW Greens, having been actively campaigning on the need for reform for...
The State Is Still Abusing Ex-Child Wards, Via Redress, Just as it Did in Their Youth
As Leonie Sheedy recalls, when the girls who were under state care at the notorious Parramatta Girls Home held a protest in 1969, calling out the conditions they were subjected to by the NSW state, they were sent to Long...
‘Probable Terrorism Threat’ Stems from Rise in Far-Right Extremism
So, prime minister Anthony Albanese turned up the volume on Australia’s National Terrorism Threat Level on Monday morning, from “possible” to “probable”, which he added does not mean “imminent” or that intelligence has any details about a specific “threat or...
The Current Criticism of Israeli Zionism Is in No Way an Antisemitic Hate Crime
Rastafarianism is way of life and culture born out of the African communities brought to Jamaica to be treated as slaves by the Spanish over the 18th century. This belief system emerged from the synthesis of the Bible’s Old Testament,...
NSW Policemen Assault Women and Girls at Shopping Centre
Horrific footage of two heavily built New South Wales policemen approaching a group of predominantly women and girls who are engaging in what can be fairly described as a ‘push and shove’ in a Batemans Bay shopping centre, before violently...
White Supremacist Terrorist Attacks Are Trending in NSW: Three Incidents in Four Weeks
Sebastian Newman was charged in Sutherland Local Court with two terrorism offences on Thursday. And it would appear from a number of details in the reports that he’s a white supremacist-type of terrorist, but as to his distinct ethnic background...
The Criminal Offence of Forced Marriage in Australia
Ruqia Haidari had a hard life as it was - she and her family had to flee the Taliban to relocate to the Afghan Hazara community in Shepparton to begin a new life. In addition to political unrest in her...
“No Jurisdiction Over First Nations”: Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta on Sovereigns of Country
Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta was arrested by Tasmanian police on 19 March 2024 for taking part in a Bob Brown Foundation protest to save the Styx Valley of the Giants, old growth trees situated in southeastern lutrawita-Tasmania, and he was...
