What to do when charged with a serious crime
Updated on: 24.06.24
What to do when you have been arrested and charged with a serious crime? It has been a particularly hard week at work. You get home and start arguing with your wife. You have a…
Doli-incapax: When Children Cannot be Held Responsible for Their Criminal Offending
Updated on: 16.06.24
Doli-incapax: When children cannot be responsible for criminal behaviour It was reported in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald NSW that “in the past decade more than 45,000 ”criminal incidents” involving children under 14…
Arson: A Criminal Offence on the Rise in Australia
Updated on: 14.06.24
Why are arson cases on the rise in Australia? Arson is relatively a criminal offence of low incidence in comparison to other offences in Australia such as supplying or possessing a prohibited drug, or domestic…
Why do “white-collar criminals” get lighter sentences?
Updated on: 15.06.24
Why do “white-collar criminals” get lighter sentences? Insider trading, credit card fraud, identity theft, wonky financial advise, price fixing, bid rigging, market manipulation, and asset misappropriation, you name it there is a myriad of white-collar…
Should Convicted Terrorists in Australia have their Citizenship Revoked?
Updated on: 24.11.17
Should convicted terrorists in Australia have their citizenship revoked? Almost every day the headlines are buzzing over the current refugee crisis in Europe. Isis is running rampant in countries like Iraq and Syria leaving millions…
Sydney’s Lockout Laws- Are they Working?
Updated on: 24.11.17
Sydney’s Lockout Laws, Are they working? In January 2014, NSW introduced reforms to the NSW Liquor Act, otherwise referred to as “lockout laws” that restricts alcohol sales in an attempt to reduce violent alcohol-fueled assaults….
Should There be a Domestic Violence Register in Australia?
Updated on: 05.06.24
Should there be a domestic violence register in Australia? Domestic violence is one of the most prevalent forms of violence against women in Australia. According to Access Economics an estimated 1.6 million Australian women over…
Should Drug Users be Allowed to Test what is in their Drugs at Music Festivals?
Updated on: 09.09.20
Should Drug Users be allowed to test what is in their drugs at music festivals in Australia? Just over the past few days a 26-year-old man from Albury became unconscious and later died of a…
Man dies at Music Festival in Penrith, 60 People Arrested and Charged
Updated on: 24.06.24
Defcon Music Festival was on in Penrith last night, 19 September 2015. Even with the recent tragic death of a teenager after taking ecstasy at a music festival, festival-goers continue to take drugs at music…
Police Cracking Down on Drug Drivers
Updated on: 24.06.24
Drug Driving Offences on the Rise in NSW Police are now cracking down on Drug Drivers. Last June a serious crash occurred in Sutton Forest in NSW when a truck driver allegedly under the influence…
