There is widespread concern that none of the nine males who gang raped a 10-year-old girl in Queensland have been sent to prison. The Queensland Government is appealing the sentences.
Six teenagers who pleaded guilty last month were placed on a 12-month probation order and had no conviction recorded against them for the 2005 rape of [...]
This site is already blocked by my company firewall at work as “adult content” so I might as well go the whole hog and write this post.
The Brisbane Courier Mail reports that a man was lucky not to find himself facing contempt charges when his highly embarrassing mobile phone ringtone rang out loudly in a [...]
I answered a jury summons for the first time today. I’ve never lived long in a town that has jury trials, and being in a regional centre, I guess the odds of being called up are fairly high, probably much higher than a capital city.
I arrived at 9am instead of the appointed 9.15am, hoping to [...]
Conviction by Richard North Patterson is a powerful and disturbing book about truth, justice and the American way.
It poses more questions than it answers, incisively exposing the flawed
legal system in the United States, where elected judges care more for
public opinion than justice.
It tells the story of a semi-retarded black man, Rennell Price, who is
convicted with [...]
The ABC is really starting to irritate me with its political bias.
There’s no doubt, that along with the Fairfax press, ABC news is left
leaning and out of touch with mainstream Australia.
I used to like tuning into AM at eight in the morning for a
half-hour review and preview of leading news stories. Now it just makes
me [...]
