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1 month ago | 
thebigsmoke.com.au | Deb Turney |Paul Gregoire |Ginger Gorman |Bailey Mason
“Three Little Pigs”, this was not. The exhibition was supposed to be a protest against the treatment of pigs in Denmark…then we learned what types of animal cruelty this work of “art” was set to involve. Far from the storyline of the classic children’s tale, three little pigs in Denmark hit the headlines over the last few days for a very distinct reason. Art. But is it?
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
“Condemnation is great and important but not sufficient. We need to see perpetrators of antisemitic incidents arrested, prosecuted and then penalties that fit the crime imposed,” said Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal this week.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
Dan Duggan’s legal team has commenced proceedings with the Federal Court of Australia to appeal the recent Australian attorney general decision to extradite the father-of-six children to the United States over a secret 2017 US grand jury indictment that contains some very dubious claims and criminal charges within it.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
“Some of these older kids, they really need to be locked up, whether in juvenile detention centres or whatever,” said federal Nationals MP Kevin Hogan, whose NSW electoral seat of Page sits on the lands of the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr peoples. And he added that they should no longer receive as “many warnings or… as many cautions as they are getting, because they are literally… scaring people.”Hogan made the comments to radio host James Willis on 2GB Breakfast on Wednesday.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride continues to be the only individual in prison with a connection to Australian war crimes allegedly perpetrated by this nation’s special forces (SAS) troops in Afghanistan over the course of Australia’s participation in the US-led war within the Central Asian country: the longest war Australia has ever seen.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Paul Gregoire
The 2022 New South Wales antiprotest regime was put to one ofits most significant tests on Awabakal and Worimi land in theregional city of Newcastle late last November, and it appeared thatthe deterrent effect these laws and their draconian penalties initially possessed has eroded quitesignificantly.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
For the last three months, Israel has been conjuring Hell on Earth in northern Gaza. In October 2024, the apartheid state commenced a fresh offensive in the north of the 40-kilometre walled-in region, which it continues into the present. This is after having unleashed its full-scale extermination project in that part of The Strip in October 2023.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has determined that in transferring 24 unaccompanied minors from the Global South, who were seeking asylum, to offshore detention in Nauru in 2014 was definitely in breach of the rights contained in the International Covenant on Civil and Politics Rights (ICCPR), and in particular, the right against arbitrary detention in article 9.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
The Donald Trump who gave a speech on 7 January 2025 at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida ahead of his inauguration appeared a very different president-elect than the one taking office in 2017. And the current self-assurance the incoming head of state is displaying reflects his intimate understanding of US government mechanisms, along with just how far he can stretch the powers he’s about to wield.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au | Paul Gregoire
Towards the end of 2024, the federal Labor government made a few bold moves on the international stage in terms of Israel. This occurred after 12 months of unbridled support for Tel Aviv as it’s been perpetrating a heinous mass slaughter upon the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip.
