By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim “Several remarkable things happened in the Dubbo Local Court that day”, said NSW Supreme Court Justice Peter Hamill at the outset of his 1 June final findings in regard to the 11 February 2022 NSW Local Court case R versus Faiva Peckham. His Honour last week described the three-minute-long case presided… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In mid-May, news hit that western Sydney is in the grips of a gang war, which involves feuding between the Alameddine and Hamzy families, and has resulted in 13 dead gang members. So, the NSW Police Force has launched Taskforce Erebus in response. In its first week, Erebus had reportedly… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Dedicated refugee rights advocate Shane Bazzi posted a tweet late night on 25 February last year, which stated, “Peter Dutton is a rape apologist”. The tweet also featured a link to a June 2019 Guardian article titled, Peter Dutton Says Women Using Rape and Abortion Claims as Ploy to Get… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim As is well understood, Australia, along with the EU, the US, the UK, NZ, and a number of other nations, such as Japan and South Korea, have placed heavy sanctions upon the Russian Federation to punish it over its invasion of Ukraine. India has not, but our PM Scott Morrison… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The latest NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) custody figures, which relate to the 2021 December quarter, reveal that in this state 43 percent of all young people being held in youth detention are First Nations children. This is despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids only accounting… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A barrister since 1995, Michael Rollinson received an email from the NSW Bar Association on 2 July 2021 directing him to cease practising as he’d failed to pay the full fees to annually renew his practising certificate. He was told that if he didn’t stop, he’d be in breach… Read more »
Over a period of a little over six years ending in January 2019, western Sydney woman Clarisse Totaan underreported or failed to report her earnings to the Department of Human Services (DHS), which led to her receiving parenting payments to a sum of just shy of $113,000. This social security fraud began after she had… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 9 April 2009, Simon Monteiro was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the aggravated sexual assault of his then girlfriend in her Bellevue Hill apartment on 2 January 2008. The rape was aggravated because the offender inflicted actual bodily harm before the non-consensual sex assault. The State Parole Authority granted… Read more »
Recent years have seen our state subjected to a series of unprecedented extreme weather events, and this is being accompanied by an escalation in climate protests that are increasingly targeting the profits of the fossil fuel industry, as well as raising public awareness to the crisis. This was seen over the last week with Blockade… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Charles Smith had just finished dinner with his mother when he attended the pokies room at the Quakers Hill Inn, with the allotted $50 he’d allowed himself to gamble on the machines. Thomas Maloney, an associate of his, who shared friends in common, was also trying his luck at… Read more »
