The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has today released their latest report showing that all major criminal offences are falling or stable across NSW. The NSW Liberals together with the support of the Labor “opposition” continue to throw billions of dollars of...
Organ harvesting report requires immediate commitments The report from a Federal Government inquiry considering global organ trafficking has strongly asserted the need for Australia to strengthen rules around the use of plastinated bodies like the “real bodies”...
Parliamentary report released: Big new unfair tax needs to be buried The Parliamentary Inquiry considering the Government’s “Fire and Emergency Services Levy” has today released its findings, concluding the tax was poorly conceived, badly implemented and inequitable...
MEDIA ALERT: No Forced Adoptions Rally and Media Briefing With the Coalition government looking to force through dramatic pro-adoption changes in the dying two weeks of the NSW Parliament a large gathering of NGO’s, advocates and survivors of past forced adoption...
Work must immediately halt on the destructive and poorly-planned Windsor Bridge replacement project given the damning findings of a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry. With construction works currently underway that will destroy Australia’s oldest town square and oldest...
A highly contentious proposal to build seniors housing on flood prone land at Woy Woy has been brutally rebuffed in a report by Central Coast Council to the Joint Regional Planning Panel. That Panel is the Government appointed authority which will determine the...
Local residents, Greens MP David Shoebridge and local campaigners will be meeting outside Woy Woy Bowling club tomorrow to call for the rejection of the highly contentious proposal to build seniors housing on the flood prone site. The local campaign has been given...
Data obtained by the Greens shows the continued failure of the drug dog program with false positive outstripping ‘successful’ searches. Remarkably even when intrusive strip searches are carried out, which can involve peering into people’s body cavities and requiring...
The coronial findings released today into the police killing of young woman Courtney Topic while in severe mental distress have exposed a police force tragically under-prepared for responding to people with mental illness. The coroner made a series of recommendations...
As the third most populated city in NSW, Wollongong is one of the most heavily targeted areas for drug dog searches outside Sydney. That’s why Sniff Off is launching in the Gong: to expand our coverage of drug dog reports and to spread the word across NSW about...
The family of Lewis Buddy Kelly might finally be closer to justice after 34 years of waiting for answers. Buddy was found dead on the railway lines at South Kempsey in the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1983. His death remains unsolved and his family have raised...
Today’s scathing report on bullying and harassment in NSW Emergency Services shows how those we most trust to protect us are being badly let down by a system that fails to address the damage caused by bullying and harassment. The Emergency Services sector desperately...
