Corrupt Conduct is a Crime, But Will Gladys be Criminally Prosecuted?
Gladys Berejiklian has lost her appeal to overturn ICAC’s finding that she engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” during her tenure as the Premier of New South Wales. Ms Berejiklian’s appeal relied on what she perceived to be a potential legal...
Boyle to Stand Trial for Preparatory Acts, as Dreyfus Considers Providing Immunity Afterwards
ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle is set to stand trial over 24 criminal offences on 2 September 2024, which cover preparatory acts that he undertook to gather information to prove that the tax office was employing a garnishee practice in a...
Boyle Is Facing Prison for Correctly Blowing the Whistle Due to Ambiguously Drafted Law
The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth) (the Act) aims to protect Australian public service whistleblowers in making public interest disclosures (PIDs) about wrongdoing or corruption that they’re privy to in the workplace, and it dictates the path such a...
NSW Police Employee Charged with Accessing Restricted Data Without Authority
A civilian employee of the New South Wales Police Force is facing court over allegations he unlawfully accessed restricted data contained in the police computer system. In May 2024, officers attached to Lake Illawarra Police District commenced investigations regarding access...
Police Officers Assault Youth in Adult Watchhouse
Footage emerged last week that shows a 17-year-old First Nations boy standing in a room in a Queensland police watchhouse. And at first glance, and without any details of the incident about to unfold, the boy appears to be walking...
NSW Drug Summit Agenda: Decriminalisation, Drug Detection Dogs and Deemed Supply
The Minns government has finally announced it will be holding its preelection promised NSW Drug Summit, which will comprise of a four day forum with two regional dates set for October, along with two dates of hearings to be held...
Albanese’s Antisemitism Envoy Appointment Reeks of Desperation and Prejudice
The UN human rights office announced on Tuesday that the entire Gaza Strip is in famine. This is due to the apartheid Israeli state not only having been slaughtering the more than 2 million Palestinians of Gaza since October, but...
The Refusal of Authorities to Identify White Supremacist Terrorism Will Only Compound It
Many have remarked on the number of stabbings in NSW of late and wondered why that might be. Of course, one reason could be that our government’s support of the Israeli-perpetrated Gaza genocide, conveys a message that violence is okay...
White-Collar and Corporate Crime Run Rife in Australia, as ASIC Stands By and Watches
No one would accuse federal, territory and state police agencies of neglecting their mandated pursuit of enforcing the criminal law. But the criticism could be made about most Australian policing agencies having public image issues, as they do little by...
White Supremacist Stabs Man in Sydney, But Terrorism Police Stumped as to His Ideology
White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, an Anglo Australian man from the NSW town of Grafton, walks into two mosques in Christchurch in March 2019 and guns down 51 Muslim worshippers. The killer produced a far-right manifesto. He had links to Australian...
