Class action against Victorian Government over second COVID-19 lockdown to go ahead
The Victorian Government is set to face a class action over its alleged mismanagement of Victoria’s […]
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Attorney: Pfizer Vaccine Whistleblower False Claims Suit Payout could Reach $3.3 trillion “It would be enough to bankrupt Pfizer,”
Pfizer cannot use the government as a shield from liability for making false claims about its COVID-19 vaccine, lawyers for a whistleblower argued in response to Pfizer’s motion to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit.
“Respondents claim […]
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WA police officer gets bail after facing Geraldton Magistrates Court over child sex abuse charges
A Geraldton police officer who allegedly assaulted a teenager and asked her to have sex with him has […]
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Texas moves to ban BlackRock, UBS from state business over firms’ oil industry ‘boycott’
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Wikimedia Foundation launches legal challenge against NSA mass surveillance
Petition the US Supreme Court.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, has petitioned the US Supreme Court to review a legal challenge to NSA’s mass surveillance of communications of US citizens with people overseas. In the litigation, Wikimedia is being represented […]
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Video sharing turbulence: Alternative platforms hosting hate speech and misinformation
Since 2020, under rules enforced by the British media regulator Ofcom, BitChute must protect the public from “harmful content”. This means, primarily, content that would be deemed a criminal offense under laws relating to terrorism and child sexual abuse, or content that incites […]
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Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech for patent infringement over COVID vaccine
Moderna sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna […]
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“A Legal Quagmire”: Georgatos on Incarcerating Youths in Casuarina Adult Prison
The WA Department of Justice transferred 17 youth detainees aged from 14 to 17 into Casuarina Prison, an adult maximum-security facility, on 20 July, as the conditions at their former place of detention, Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre, were […]
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The Right to Conscience: Religious Freedoms in Australia
As little as ten years ago, the right to conscience and the consequential right to religious freedom was considered to be non-negotiable in Australia. After the passing of the Same Sex Marriage Act in 2017, the LNP coalition under Malcolm Turnbull promised to introduce a […]
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Submission to the Climate Change Bill Inquiry
As elected members of parliament we have a shared solemn duty to behave with integrity.
This embraces our duty to ensure legislation and policies are solidly based on accurate and objective data so that the consequences on our […]