Furious drug reform advocates have sent a terse message to NSW Premier Chris Minns over months of radio silence on the date of a long-promised drug summit. On Monday afternoon, ahead of the state budget on Tuesday, Uniting NSW unfurled a banner on St Stephen’s Church on Macquarie St oppositeContinue Reading
The use of good character references by convicted child sex offenders in court will be discussed at a long-awaited NSW Sentencing Council meeting on Wednesday. Last May, child sexual abuse survivor-advocates Harrison James and Jarad Grice launched the Your Reference Ain’t Relevant campaign, which aims to eradicate legislation that allowsContinue Reading
NSW will become the second state to introduce additional two-year “posting and boasting” penalties on motor vehicle theft and break and enter offences, in an effort to curb youth crime. The offence, which will be introduced into parliament this week, would apply to the person who posted the video onContinue Reading
The cowardly murderer who killed Celeste Manno was forced to stare at a “glowing orb” made from her ashes as he sat through his sentencing. The court was told Ms Manno’s murderer, Luay Nader Sako, 39, would be eligible for parole after serving three decades behind bars, with an urnContinue Reading
A grieving mother believes her daughter has been failed again by the system after her killer stalker was jailed for 36 years. Surrounded by family, friends and supporters, Aggie Di Mauro spoke outside the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday to say Celeste Manno had been let down by Victoria’s authorities.Continue Reading
After being pardoned and released from prison, Kathleen Folbigg on Thursday took her first step towards having her convictions quashed as her lawyers made an appearance in the Court of Criminal Appeal. Ms Folbigg spent two decades in prison after being convicted over the deaths of her four children beforeContinue Reading
Child sexual abuse survivor-advocate Harrison James would describe the last five months with one word: “mind-blowing”. In May, he and fellow survivor-advocate Jarad Grice launched Your Reference Ain’t Relevant, a campaign aimed at barring convicted child sexual abuse perpetrators from receiving “soft and inadequate sentences based on [the use of]Continue Reading
Warning for First Nations readers: this article contains the images and name of a person who has died. They have been published with permission of the family. The family of an Indigenous boy, who died after self-harming while being detained in one of Perth’s most notorious youth detention facilities, hasContinue Reading
An Australian lawyer is calling on an overhaul of prohibitive surrogacy laws after multiple families were forced to fight to take their babies home from a Greek clinic at the centre of a major scandal. The Mediterranean Fertility Institute in Crete – where hundreds of families have undertaken surrogacy proceduresContinue Reading
In a “triumph” for victim-survivors, the NSW Attorney-General has committed to referring law reform to the Department of Communites and Justice that will prevent convicted perpetrators of child sexual abuse “from getting soft and inadequate sentences based on irrelevant character references”. Michael Daley, along with Minister for the Prevention ofContinue Reading