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Where to begin with the Northern Territory’s paperless arrest laws? The systemic racism and the incursion of individual liberty I will get to later. First, however,…
Last night Peter featured in a news piece about the Bill Spedding bail conditions on Channel 9: you can find out more about the full story…
Balancing individual freedom and safety Individual freedom is a paramount value in our liberal society. Of course, individual safety is equally important. Tension arises because there…
Out of the copious media emissions poured out in reaction to the Adani mine decision, one fact has emerged as crystal clear: the Federal government’s deep-seated…
Let’s talk about racism in Australia. Racism, simply put, is where an historically oppressed group (or individual from such a group) gets different and negative treatment…
COPS database errors lead to wrongful detentions We were not surprised to read this article: errors in the police database have led to scores of youth…
Joe Hockey’s short-lived “victory” of $200,000 in damages – awarded in his defamation suit against Fairfax – was last week dwarfed by a costs order requiring…
On 1 June 2015 the Criminal Procedure Amendment (Domestic Violence Complainants) Act 2014 (also known as the Domestic Violence Evidence in Chief Act) came into force.…
An astounding 40.3% of prisoners in Australia are back in prison within two years of release. We’ve been following The Conversation’s ‘Beyond Prison’ series on issues…
Peter O’Brien was featured on ABC News last night (17 June, 2015). Peter appeared as a solicitor in the bail application for the high-profile accused William…
The statistics are appalling: one woman is hospitalised every three hours, and at least one woman is murdered each week. At the time of writing, 43…
Time is running out to save an invaluable legal service. The Aboriginal Legal Service’s Custody Notification Service (CNS) is a 24-hour phone line that gives legal…
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