8 04, 2023

Police Powers and Responsibilities (Jack’s Law) Amendment Bill 2022

April 8, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Consent, Corruption, Finance, Human Rights, Inquiry, Law, Misinformed Media, Police, Politics, Privacy, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

This legislation authorizes mass, suspicion less, warrantless magnetometer searches.

Under these provisions a senior police officer may authorize police officers for a period of 12 hours to search members of the public in a safe night precinct or on a public transport station (and on a vehicle travelling between […]

8 04, 2023

Review of the Queensland Police Service Wanding Trial

April 8, 2023|Australia, Consent, Finance, Inquiry, Law, Police, Politics, Privacy, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

In 2021, legislation was passed in Queensland to enable the trial of metal detecting wand use by police in two sites. The goal of the legislation is to improve detection of, and achieve reductions in, knife carrying, primarily by young people. Reduced knife-carrying is intended to lead to reduced serious violent offending involving […]

8 04, 2023

Judge calls Murdoch-Crikey defamation case a ‘scorched earth policy’ driven by “ego, hubris and ideology”

April 8, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Censorship, Corruption, Finance, History, Inquiry, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Protest, Psychology, Resistance|

A federal court judge says a bitter defamation battle between Fox News CEO and News Corp co-chairman Lachlan Murdoch and the publisher of independent news site Crikey appears to be driven by “ego, hubris and ideology”.

Lachlan Murdoch in Sydney on Monday. Photo: AAP/Steven Saphore
7 04, 2023

NSW Police Turned Their Body Cameras Off Before Fatally Shooting Mentally Ill Man

April 7, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Censorship, Corruption, Fatality, Human Rights, illness, Inquiry, Law, Police, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Resistance, Surveillance, Technology|

Smoking on car
NSW police tactical operations officers didn’t have to shoot Todd McKenzie dead on a July evening in 2019. Yet, following a nine-hour siege, five officers stormed his Taree home, where he was alone, and shot the 40-year-old man, having a mental health crisis, three times […]
7 04, 2023

McBride’s Criminal Trial Date Set Next Week, as the ADF Whistleblower Faces Hard Time

April 7, 2023|Abuse, Australia, Censorship, Corruption, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Law, Military, Misinformed Media, Police, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology|

McBride Whistleblower

Due to his whistleblowing efforts, which exposed Australian special forces officers having committed war crimes in Afghanistan, former Australian Defence Force lawyer David McBride is a hero to many in this country.

So, it’s difficult to have heard him say, as […]