Podcasts about Crimes Act

Listeners! It' election day and I cannot be bothered so it's AI shownotes this week. Enjoy! Hosts: Joel Hill & Dave (Cooker Watcher Supreme)(00:00:00) Introduction & WelcomeJoel welcomes listeners and introduces guest host Dave, replacing Jack the Insider.Shoutout: CB Co Beer for election night viewing. 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Not allowed to speak despite attending.Mysterious Host: Christine Stevens, credited by Jammal as "brains behind the Wollongbae Road campaign" (a local road widening project used by cookers).Stevens now campaign manager for Stuart Bonds (referred to as "boss"). Possible links to broader far-right organising.Joel Jammal's Gifts: Rolled-up maps for Cessnock's 6 cooker councillors showing ALP vs. Voice 'No' vote intersections. Maps available for purchase from Jammal.Jammal's CPAC Trip: Won the trip via the "Shark Bites Pitching Contest" at CPAC Australia (Sky paywall).Winners expected to produce content upon return.Included a communication seminar with Steve Bannon.Stuart Bonds' Candidacy (Hunter):Odds discussed ($10 on Sportsbet).Labor's Dan Repacholi favoured ($1.15).Bonds' history: 21% primary in 2019, left One Nation, rejoined. Consistent far-right vote in the region.Bonds' desire to "start a conversation about coal mining" (already ongoing).Discussion on Labor's telehealth plan and cooker opposition.(00:24:07) Trumpism & Dutton's CampaignDiscussion on the "blueprint for Trump 28".Chris LaCivita (Trump advisor) reportedly helped Peter Dutton's campaign. Joel questions the effectiveness given global trends.Mainstream media's difficulty rallying behind Dutton.(00:25:52) Cooker Report Part 2: Gosford & MyPlaceDave attended the Lisa Bellamy independent campaign launch in Gosford.Follow-on from "Coasties Who Care" (MyPlace environmentalist council ticket).Shadowy Figure: Kate Mason (anti-renewable circuit, IPA/Advance events). Launched Bellamy's campaign.Campaign barely mentions climate change, focuses on opposing Aboriginal Land Council developments.Key Figures on Stage:Jake Cassar (musician, prepper).Lisa Bellamy (MyPlace coordinator, seen at Convoy with Kate Mason).Vicki Burke (MyPlace food/water security organiser, believes in aliens/other planets).Group suggests increased One Nation vote would benefit them. Bellamy received ~3000 votes previously.Kate Mason's Agenda: Reshaping the environment movement to focus on conspiracies (15-min cities, anti-meat).Shapeshifted from anti-vax (IMOP) -> Voice 'No' -> Anti-artificial food/Bellamy campaign.Significant Telegram following despite "gobbledygook" posts.Rally vs. Darkinjung Land Council/Woolworths Development: Focus remains on Land Council projects. Racist undertones ("love the land as much as we do").Links to Garingai (now potentially split/rebranded). NRL Welcome to Country discussed.Jake Cassar Deep Dive: Constant self-promotion, minimal concrete environmental vision beyond opposing the Land Council. Attacks Labor/Greens. Right-wing presence at events. Ballarat missing person search (found dog with SES). Yowie encounter at Woy Woy tip. Lack of accountability in Facebook environmental groups (anti-immigration/Aboriginal rhetoric).(00:40:33) Monica Smit's Private Prosecution of Dan AndrewsMonica plans a private criminal prosecution against Dan Andrews (and Jacinta Allan).Website Quote: "The wait is over righteous justice begins now" - Monica Smit.Topher Field involved as cheerleader/promoter.Basis: "New evidence" (Document 34 FOI email) allegedly showing curfew decision made before consulting CHO Brett Sutton. Implication: tyranny, not health advice.Joel suggests it was likely capitulation to police enforcement ease.Fundraising: Claimed $124,605 raised (via manually updated widget). Monica paid herself $1000/week stipend already.Monica's Justification ("Why me?"): Stood toe-to-toe and won, relentless energy, prison time (refused bail), won appeal, resisted database handover, won unlawful arrest case (appealing costs decision), claims past refund integrity, lives simply, no distractions (children/friends).Bender (@SpambotX) Twitter Thread: Brutal takedown of Monica as a "despicable con woman".Highlights Consumer Affairs conviction ($66k pocketed from unregistered fundraiser).Accuses Topher Field of seeking a cut.Details legal failures, self-orchestrated "martyrdom", $250k legal bill after rejecting settlement.Criticises "journalism" and book ("Cell 22").Predicts prosecution failure and abandonment once donations dry up.Bender's Legal Analysis (Round 2):Private prosecution (Crimes Act s 321) needs prima facie case, not conspiracy.Document 34 likely inadmissible hearsay.Misconduct charge needs proof of knowing, malicious law-breaking (R v Quach).Lockdowns upheld (Loielo v Giles), backed by Public Health Act & CHO advice.DPP can shut down frivolous cases (Public Prosecutions Act s 22).Previous treason case tossed out.Criticises fundraising transparency (Fundraising Act 1998), $52k/year salary.Highlights past legal issues (incitement charges dropped, health order conviction, Judge Tran's comments).Past Precedent: 2021 private prosecution for treason (Anthony Herman) recalled - chaotic online hearing.Monica's Timeline & Updates:Initial plan: Assemble legal team by April 24, first meeting April 30.Reality (May 1): No team announced. Video claims it will take "a few weeks" to pick lawyers.Met with a lawyer ($500/hr, 2 hours booked).Posted picture near a waterfall instead of legal updates ("reset and reload").Now targeting Jacinta Allan as well.Promises refund of remaining balance if no prospect of success.Discussion on cooker lawyers (Matouk, Buckley). Monica's motivation seen as attention/clout chasing.(01:17:54) Return to The Cali (Caledonian Hotel, Singleton)Dave attended Pauline Hanson & Stuart Bonds event ($20 lunch that never happened).Low turnout (~45 people in beer garden). Regulars, pensioners, Chris Sky filming, James Ashby present.Stuart Bonds Guardian article discussed (misogyny, anti-vax, "Little Hitlers"). Worn as badge of honour.Homeschooling attempt due to "woke trans agenda".Red Ensign described as "real flag".Unregistered campaign trailer incident.Pauline Hanson: Speech built to "greatest hits" (Aboriginal industry). Mumbles less the longer she speaks.Cali Update: Corruption Whistleblower book sold at bar (credit card accepted). Eureka beer on tap (FJB beer rebranded/gone?). Frenchies brewery connection? Pub seems to be returning to normal operations, but Red Ensign still flies. Food looks good, beer selection poor (Lion Nathan). No coal miners attended the event despite Bonds' background.(01:36:30) Candidates Forum: Patterson (Port Stephens)Dave attended forum; ABC filming due to anti-wind turbine mob presence.Low turnout of protesters (~5 loud individuals). Meryl Swanson (Labor incumbent) well-prepared.Marginal seat: Libs (Lawrence Ancliffe), aligned Independent, One Nation, Trumpet, Family First running against Swanson.History of intimidation (boat incident during Mayoral campaign).Betting odds discussed (Labor $1.66, Coalition $2.37). YouGov poll (Labor 51.8%).Irony: Libs proposed nuclear plant at Port Stephens in 2007.Bizarre Moments:Trumpet candidate Peter Arena: Wind turbines interfere with missile detection; mentioned fighting audience member over wife littering.(01:42:37) Billy Bay vs GAP Feud UpdateDr. William Bay told people not to vote for GAP (Great Australian Party) despite running for them.Rod Culleton's response.Billy Bay's letter to Culleton: Mock SovCit style ("Office of Vexatious Litigants and Spiritual Audits"), demands apology, foot kissing, $8 trillion. Full of threats (librarian grievance, livestream in lab coat, seizing karma balance). Written on GAP letterhead.Feud background (payment disputes) covered previously by Tinfoil Tales.(01:46:51) Amelia Hamer (Liberal, Kooyong) vs The PeopleRecap: Fake renter scandal (owns 2 properties + trust fund beneficiary).A-Frame sign spamming controversy vs Monique Ryan (Teal MP).Council imposed one-sign limit due to safety/obstruction complaints.Liberals took council to Supreme Court over implied freedom of political communication.Court upheld freedom but allowed council safety enforcement (opaque outcome).Likely outcome: confrontations over sign placement. James Patterson claiming victory. Joel predicts local backlash.(01:51:08) Election Odds & PredictionsSportsbet: Labor $1.05, Coalition $9.50.YouGov: Labor 53 / Coalition 47 (2PP). Projecting 84 seats for Labor (75 needed for majority).Dickson (Dutton's seat): YouGov 50.2% LNP / 49.8% ALP. Sportsbet has Dutton favourite ($1.28 vs $3.35).Joel laments betting ban but expresses optimism for Labor win, potential Dutton loss.(01:53:29) Wrap Up & OutroJoel thanks Dave for his "invaluable" and "brave" cooker reporting.Standard Patreon plugs etc. skipped.Sign off & enjoy the election.

A legal specialist in human trafficking says a simple amendment to the Crimes Act - which would enable prosecutions against child traffickers brought - is within reach

Well, after a spirited discussion yesterday on the potential changes to the laws around citizen's arrests, the press conference announced the actual changes. They are amending the Crimes Act so that citizens can intervene to stop any crimes act events at any time of the day, requiring that a person making an arrest contact police and follow police instructions. Clarifying that restraint can be used when reasonable when making an arrest and changing the defensive property provisions to the Crimes Act so it's clear that reasonable force may be used. Almost immediately, a wide range of groups and organisations slammed the proposals. The Police Association says the changes are highly risky and could have unintended consequences. Police Association President Chris Cahill told Mike Hosking this morning that the reforms are risky and unnecessary, and says it's not worth getting hurt or even killed for a few bucks or some ciggies. “I mean, look at dairies for instance, they don't have security guards, and they have shopkeepers and family people, and there's going to be an expectation that they do it, especially if they're working for some boss who thinks they should do it. But even security guards, you look at some of these security guards – they're not really highly trained they're not highly equipped. To think of police officers, we've got all the equipment, all the training, still get assaulted every day, some really seriously. So, I don't mean to be the humbug. I get why people think on the face of it, a good idea, but when you peel it back, it's pretty risky stuff.” Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young said member businesses had “grave fears” about the proposals. “The great majority of members we have consulted have made it clear that only police should have powers to detain offenders”, she said. “Most retailers train their staff to prioritise their own safety rather than try to recover stolen goods. We cannot condone retail workers putting themselves into dangerous and volatile situations”. The Employers and Manufacturers Association said business owners were being encouraged to put themselves and their staff in harm's way. They fear it will lead to an escalation in violence – if an offender believes they'll be met with aggression, they'll come prepared. “Far from discouraging thefts or aggression and retail workplaces”, the EMA says, they believe this will result in “swarming behaviour in which a number of offenders will be present to create numerical superiority, those are outcomes no one wants”. Goes without saying that the unions and Labour hate the proposals. To me, what is really alarming is the group that LOVES the idea of beefed up powers for citizens. Do you know who LOVES the idea? Destiny Church. Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says he's “excited” to receive “increased powers to police, where law and order has failed”. If Tamaki wants something, I don't. The idea of his boofheads going around deciding what's right and what's wrong and who's a criminal who's not gives me the heebies. But the thing that gets me is, did the government not ask the police, and Retail NZ, and the EMA whether they wanted to increase the powers of citizen's arrest? Call me naive, and in fact you did yesterday, and in fact I accept that I was, but I would have thought that before you set up a working group, that the working group was as a result of Retail NZ, and the EMA, and the police, and the dairy owners saying we really need to do something about these citizen's arrest powers? We really need to beef them up. I would have thought that it would have the support of Retail NZ and the EMA and all these pivotal groups that are actually involved at the coal face. If they say no, no thanks very much, leave it to the police, and the police say no, no, we're highly trained and we still get hurt, imagine what can happen to people who don't have the training and don't have the equipment, who did they ask before they set this up? Who wants this apart from Destiny Church? Which really, as I say, puts the heebies up me.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Zoe George & Mark Knoff Thomas. They discuss the government amending the Crimes Act to give citizens greater ability to detain thieves and cycling lanes in New Zealand.

Currently, the Crimes Act only allows people to make a citizen's arrest at night, but Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says they'll soon be able to happen any time of the day.

The Government has announced a series of reforms to give businesses additional tools to deal with those that are robbing them. These include: Amending the Crimes Act so that citizens can intervene to stop any Crimes Act offence at any time of the day. Requiring that a person making an arrest contact police and follow police instructions. Clarifying that restraints can be used, when reasonable, when making an arrest. Changing the defence of property provisions to the Crimes Act so it is clear that reasonable force may be used. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retailers and members of the public will soon have more ability to detain shoplifters and thieves under beefed up citizen's arrest powers. At 2pm today, the government's expected to announce a range of measures aimed at curbing rising retail theft, which have been proposed by a Ministerial Advisory Group formed to address retail crime. It's pretty clear what the advisory group is looking for. The old rules around citizen's arrests were absurd. Under the current legislation, making a citizen's arrest or detaining an offender could only occur at night between 9pm and 6am, because of course, there's no such thing as daylight robbery. Wrong. The Crimes Act also stated a warrantless arrest could be made by anyone if the offender was committing a crime for which the maximum punishment was at least three years in prison. So, if you're going in to protect somebody who was being assaulted, for example. It was also understood the value of the item being stolen had to be worth at least $1000. What if I went to nab Golriz Ghahraman while she was shoplifting $1000 dress at Scotties, but it was on sale? Then what? What a conundrum. Do I step in or do I not? Absurd, utter nonsense. The changes were intended to enable shop owners or security guards to prevent a thief from leaving a retail store with the stolen goods without risking being charged for using force. Ministers Goldsmith and McKee are expected to explain the application of reasonable force in those scenarios at the 2pm stand up. It was understood that the proposed changes are intended to come into force this year, wouldn't have age limitations, and wouldn't require a minimum price for the stolen items before a citizen's arrest could be made. Former Police Minister Stuart Nash told Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning that like everyone, he's sick of seeing people getting away with thumbing their noses at the community: “You got a situation Mike, where if you steal stuff, which is, you know, obviously you're stealing something over $1000 that's pretty serious. If you're just shoplifting, then the cost of prosecuting someone is substantial compared to the crime that's being committed. But what you've ended up with is a really terrible situation where these guys just get away with it. “So what we were seriously looking at is some form of fine, or something along those lines, which was proportionate. With the citizen's arrest, yeah you know, I'm a fan, there's no doubt about that. But it's got to be proportionate. You know, we don't want to get to a stage where big tough guys like yourself are using this to beat the crap out of someone.” No, and that's fair enough. But that has always been the thorniest of issues. There was a real spate of farmers getting into all sorts of trouble for defending their properties and the use of reasonable force was the question being debated. What was forceful and what was not, but I think we've all had a guts full of people brazenly getting away with stealing stuff. Two fingers to the shop owner, one finger to society. Even the ones who aren't causing any physical harm ,the ones who are just walking and grabbing what they want and walking out. It's an outrage, they're sneering at people who are doing their best, who are going to work, who are trying to budget, who are trying to squeeze every last cent out of their wallets to pay the household groceries, and then they just watch as people march by with a trolley full of crap that they load into the boot of somebody's car and off. I want to see them stopped. I want to see them stopped and the people who stop them be able to walk home and think, well, that was a job well done. But two words. Austin Hemmings. Austin Hemmings was the brave, decent man who stepped in one ordinary after workday in 2008, to help a woman who was in clear distress and who had called out for help after a man confronted and threatened her. And so he did. He went in to help this woman and for doing the right thing, this husband and father of three was stabbed in the chest and died. He was awarded the Bravery Star, New Zealand's second highest award for bravery in 2011, and his killer will be coming up for parole either this year or the next. So I want to see the community able to fight back and to work together to stop thugs and thieves, but I really don't want to see another family having to live with the loss of a good and decent man. And what's proportional force? Remember, the Sheriff of Ngawi? This was a man in a coastal community in Wairarapa and like the rest of us, he'd had a guts full of lowlifes coming over the hill, into their community, ransacking people's holiday homes and taking what they wanted. By the time you called the police, these thugs had put their goods up on trade me and had made their fortune. So the townsfolk of Ngawi got together and the Sheriff of Ngawi fired a gun across the bowels of the stolen car that these thugs were attempting to make their getaway in. And for that he went to court, he was fined $3000, and he was forced to hand over his gun. Yes, I want to see us be able to defend ourselves, but I want to know what reasonable force is. I personally think firing a gun over the heads of some lowlifes is perfectly reasonable. Firing a gun at a getaway car I think is perfectly reasonable. When it's not the first time, when the police cannot help, perfectly reasonable. But I do want to see us make more use of technology too. Supermarkets should be investing in the software that prevents thieves leaving the stores with trolleys and arm loads of stolen groceries. That technology exists. I can understand risking my life to protect the life of another, and I hope that I would be as brave as Austin Hemmings and do so. But risking my life to protect the supermarkets profits, yeah not so much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm 50/50 on this idea the Government's got of letting people do citizens arrests. For security guards? Yes. For every other member of the public? It's a definite no for me. Let's start with security guards and why I think these powers would be good for them. How long have we been saying that they need more teeth to do their job? Ages. And what we've meant by that, is the ability or the right to actually provide security as opposed to standing at the door and pretty much doing nothing when someone nicks stuff from a shop or assaults someone. I think it's fair to say that at the moment, security guards only really come to life at sports matches. Everywhere else, they're about as threatening as the person who stands at the door at Bunnings. Or parent help at the Year 8 disco. So, yes, change the law to the extent where security guards are enabled to be more effective than they are now. There is one proviso, though: we will have to make sure that security guards are screened and trained even better than they are now. I think too, security firms will have to consider the type of people they employ. Because if the law changes and security guards have the right to detain people, then we're going to have to have security guards who are physically capable of doing it. When I look around now at some of the security guards outside places like banks, for example, I can't imagine some of them being capable of dragging someone to the ground and sitting on them until the cops arrive. But as for the rest of us being allowed to make citizens arrests – forget about it. For many reasons. For me, it's not a particular line in the Crimes Act that stops me from intervening when I see someone breaking the law. I have never, and never will, make a citizen's arrest because I've got no idea what I'm taking on. I'm not the largest person in the world, but even if I was, you'd never get me intervening. Because you just don't know what someone is on, what they're capable of, and what weapon they might be carrying. I had an experience recently where a guy, completely off his face on something, was assaulting another guy. And straight away I thought ‘I'm not getting involved here'. And when I say not getting involved, I mean physically. It wasn't the law stopping me - it was my own personal safety that stopped me. I did stick around though, and I called the cops. But there was no way I was going to take him on, and there is no way I'd attempt any sort of citizen's arrest. But I reckon the really dangerous aspect of this is the licence it would give muppets out there to take the law into their own hands. You'll know as much as me, that there are people who would just love to have the law on their side. Thinking they're Bodie and Doyle from The Professionals TV show. And while I'm not one to stick up for criminals, I wouldn't want them getting roughed up unnecessarily by the vigilante types who would see this law change as a licence to do whatever they wanted to detain someone. What's more, this law change would go completely against everything the police tell us about not intervening and putting ourselves in danger. For the same reasons why I will never do it: you have no idea what someone is capable of doing, especially if they're high on drugs, and you don't know what weapons they might be carrying.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We begin our next series, this time on Capital Punishment. We start with the history of crimes throughout written history that justified the death penalty. Then we get into colonial history and how the death penalty was built into the foundations of racist America. Multiple Supreme Court rulings have shifted the landscape. We end with the recent EO attempting to expand the powers of the death penalty.   Death Penalty survey #1: https://forms.gle/S31MTYbM8JNsikpe9    Show Notes:    History of the death penalty: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/history-of-the-death-penalty/  https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty/early-history-of-the-death-penalty  Timeline of the history of the death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/history-of-the-death-penalty-timeline  History of the death penalty in USA: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/background/history-of-the-death-penalty  Death penalty in the U.S.: https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/the-u-s-and-the-death-penalty.html  Capital punishment in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States  On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, 1764: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/cesare-bonesana-di-beccariaon-crimes-and-punishments-1764 Overview of the death penalty and capital trials: History, current status, legal procedures, and cost: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/overview-death-penalty-and-capital-trials-history-current-status  Crimes act of 1790: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_Act_of_1790 List of women executed in the United States since 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976  Amnesty International resources https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/ “The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861” by David Brion Davis: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Study reveals racial bias in executions: https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/ “I just wanted to … stay alive” Who was WIlliam Furman, the prisoner at the center of a historic legal decision?: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/i-just-wanted-to-stay-alive-who-was-william-henry-furman-the-prisoner-at-the-center-of-a-historic-legal-decision  Furman v Georgia:  https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/408/238.html chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1097&context=law-student-publications  Gregg v Georgia: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/428/153.html  HIstorical Federal Executions: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/historical-federal-executions  Judiciary Act of 1789: https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/judiciary-act-of-1789-charter-us-marshals-and-deputies  EO on expanded Death Penalty https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/ https://prismreports.org/2025/02/10/death-penalty-undocumented-immigrants-trump/ https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-lawmakers-push-for-mandatory-death-penalty-in-immigration-crackdown/ Equal Justice Initiative https://eji.org/issues/death-penalty/ Texas Department of Criminal Justice on DP https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_facts.html McCleskey v. Kemp https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/279/ EJI on McCleskey v. Kemp https://eji.org/news/the-legacy-of-mccleskey-v-kemp/ Racial bias in death penalty https://eji.org/news/study-reveals-racial-bias-in-executions/ Furman v Georgia https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/69-5030 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/408/238/ Wilkerson v Utah https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/99/130/ The Movement to Abolish Capitla Punishment by David Brion Davis https://www.jstor.org/stable/1847110?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents Abraham Johnstone address https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/johnstone/johnstone.html Slave Executions in the US https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0362331999800019 Execution statistics in US https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/executions-overview/executions-in-the-u-s-1608-2002-the-espy-file Thomas Paine opposing execution of Louis XVI https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/paine-opposes-executing-king-1793/ History of lynching in America https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america#:~:text=Lynchings%20did%20not%20occur%20in,the%20only%20victims%20of%20lynching. Confronting hte legacy of lynching in America https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism: https://youtu.be/gDCeSOr3U-s?si=bjxiWo-jaYtIESKP    Recent Live Show Book Club on Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCxAsGWNVXo    Email: glassboxpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GlassBoxPod  Patreon page for documentary: https://www.patreon.com/SeerStonedProductions BlueSky: @glassboxpodcast.bsky.social  Other BlueSky: @bryceblankenagel.bsky.social and @shannongrover.bsky.social  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glassboxpodcast/  Merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/exmoapparel/shop Or find the merch store by clicking on “Store” here: https://glassboxpodcast.com/index.html One time Paypal donation: bryceblankenagel@gmail.com  Venmo: Shannon-Grover-10  

UFC star Israel Adesanya has thrown his support behind a new bill criminalising 'coward punches'. The bill would amend the Crimes Act to criminalise strikes to the head or neck in situations where the victim is not able to defend themselves. It would also amend the definition of murder in the Act if someone were to die from a coward punch. National MP Paulo Garcia first introduced the bill, and he says clear legal consequences will be a good deterrent to stopping these attacks. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's not every day of the week that a law is struck down as unconstitutional but that's exactly what happened in the case of the Knitting Nanas against the State of NSW. Two Knitting Nanas Helen Kvelde and Dominique Jacobs with the help of the Environmental Defenders Office launched a constitutional challenge to s 214A of the Crimes Act 1900 that criminalised certain conduct such as remaining  “near” any part of a “major facility” (such as Town Hall or Martin Place Station) if that conduct “causes persons attempting to use the major facility to be redirected”, or if that conduct caused “partial closure” of the major facility, on the basis it impermissibly burdens the implied freedom of political communication. Reacting to the win, Knitting Nana Helen Kvelde said “We are happy the court has given some acknowledgement to the democratic right to protest. But these laws to me feel like a distraction. As if both Labor and the Liberal Party are trying to get the population angry with protesters instead of angry against politicians for failing to protect us from climate emergency. I'm not sure what we can do next, but it doesn't feel right to just let this go. We need to fight for our democratic right to protest peacefully. I wish people would understand that ultimately these laws could affect anyone – anyone the government of the day does not like.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The New Zealand Security Association wants changes to the Crimes Act so that security guards can detain offenders without ending up in court themselves. At the moment, a security guard who chases and tackles an offender could find themselves liable for assault. The Association's chief executive Gary Morrison spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Ram raids are down more than 80% for the month of April, compared to last year. Police have identified 12 ram raids in April 2024, compared to 64 in April 2023. Sixty-four! That wasn't even the highest. There was a peak in August 2022 when there were 86 ram raids. There was a total of 433 ram raids in 2022, 288 in 2023, and 67 in the first four months of this year.   To what can we attribute the drop in ram raids? It would be nice to think that the tougher measures, The Ram Raid Offending and Related Measures Amendment Bill passing its first reading would have contributed. This bill will add smash and grabs to the Crimes Act and give police the power to prosecute ram raiders as young as 12 years old. And who do you think proposed that? It was Labour. They had seen the writing on the wall by that stage. You know the number of ram raids were just beyond the pale and people were absolutely fed up with what looked like inaction on the part of the Labour government, so they were the ones who introduced The Ram Raid Offending and Related Measures Amendment Bill and it passed its first reading with support from National and ACT, the Greens and Te Pati Māori opposed it (In a stunning narrative twist you probably picked that up?).   Or it could be the Kotahi te Whakaaro Programme. You might remember that when we interviewed the police officer involved with that, John Campbell also highlighted that it was a multi-agency approach, a wraparound approach to dealing with young ram raiders. Because these kids are young, and as soon as they got the first report, then they would get the schools involved, the families involved. It was so multi agency and seemed to be working and we had high hopes. I'm pretty sure it got continued funding because it was showing positive results in terms of young people not reoffending after completing the programme. So it could be that.   Or it could just be that ram raids have gone out of fashion. You know, there have been enough of them on TikTok, enough of them on social media, and now they're just not cool. Word on the street, they're not cool anymore. I don't know.   Presumably, there was an end purpose to the ram raids, with the jewellery being targeted. There was conjecture that perhaps the gangs were looking for gold as a way of buy, sell, and exchange - that they would take the jewellery, melt it down, and use it as currency. That was just conjecture. I don't know, but I am just jolly glad that the number of ram raids have gone down because the reduction in ram raids is a reduction in trauma. It's a reduction in upset. It's a reduction in financial loss and the expense of policing these wee oiks. Kotahi te Whakaaro was not cheap, but if it was working, all well and good.   I don't know about you, I have noticed fewer gang patches on the street, less obvious swaggering, but that is only anecdotal. I would love to hear from you as to what your anecdotal experience is. Is the message that's been sent, and you would have to say it started with Labour when it went to The Ram Raid Offending and Related Measures Amendment Bill, they were the ones that introduced it because they knew the public had had enough. Is the general message of ‘up with this we will not put', made so loud and so clear that the gangs have had to pull back a bit from the obvious swaggering, from the we own the streets, we own the stores, we'll do what we like. Or is it just a change in business in inverted commas, direction from them? Or is it simply that ram raids have gone out of fashion? If only murdering babies would go out of fashion.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JUNE 17TH 7PM - VIRTUAL EVENT WITH LAURA FLANDERS AND GUEST JOSH PAUL, FORMER STATE DEPT OFFICIAL -Donate today and you'll receive an invitation to an exclusive, insider briefing with Josh Paul, the state department official who resigned last fall in protest of escalating U.S. arms sales to Israel, and has been advocating for change ever since. If you're already a donor, check your email inbox for your invitation. If you're not a donor, there's still time to chip in and join us.Episode Description:  While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation.  The following is from our episode Domestic Violence Survivor & Homeless Too? A CA Cohort Shows What Can Be Done. This July VOCA (the federal Victims of Crimes Act) which funds services for people who find themselves homeless due to domestic violence is slated to lose 45% of its funding.  In this episode we address what can be done.  For this, Laura is joined by two survivors of domestic violence-related homelessness, who are now policy advocates. Teniecka Drake is with Rainbow Services and Yenni Rivera Martinez, with the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. Also joining us is Krista Colon, Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications Strategies for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. These audio exclusives are made possible thanks to our member supporters.  Please consider becoming a monthly supporter for a few dollars a month… go to https://Patreon.com/LauraFlandersandFriends Guests:• Krista Colón: Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications Strategies, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence • Teniecka Drake: Survivor Advocates Team, Rainbow Services• Yenni Rivera Martinez: Family System CES Coordinator, LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority); Survivor Advocate, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Full Episode Notes are accessible to all at https://Patreon.com/LauraFlandersandFriends Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, Sabrina Artel, David Neuman, Nat Needham, Rory O'Conner, Janet Hernandez, Sarah Miller, Jeannie Hopper, Nady Pina, and Jordan Flaherty FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LFAndFriendsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

If you believe in big-picture media like ours, help us stay on-air through the year. People rely on our reporting and we are committed to keep going. Are you committed too? Make a contribution at our website today and do your part to give voters the news they need.  We're in the midst of our May Day to Memorial Day membership drive.  We're asking you to join us in raising $25,000. Thanks for listening and thanks for your continued support. The war on women takes many forms — take homelessness for example. Women make up 35% of California's homeless population, and domestic violence is a leading reason why women lose their housing. For those who do manage to escape, it's confusing and often impossible to get help. Now some are calling for more gender-conscious policy. Organizations across California are coming together to address this issue, break down silos and bring survivors into decision-making. But their work is in danger. This July, VOCA (the federal Victims of Crimes Act), which funds everything from crisis hotlines to transitional housing, is slated to lose 45% of its funding. What can be done? Laura Flanders is joined by Teniecka Drake, a US Air Force veteran, and Yenni Rivera Martinez, two survivors of domestic violence-related homelessness who now work as advocates, and Krista Colón, the Senior Director of Public Policy for the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence. How does housing policy need to change? And what difference does applying a gender lens make? And later in the show Laura shares some closing thoughts on the cruel punishment case involving a homeless woman that is currently before the Supreme Court.“The lack of housing for survivors and the struggles of survivors navigating the homelessness system is a commonality shared all across the state. [The HOME Cohort is] bringing folks together to work on shared solutions . . . They've produced tools for survivors . . .” - Krista Colón“See the person, not just the data. The data is attached to a person. In order to make the proper policies, you need to know who you're affecting, your constituents. You need to know who they are.” - Teniecka Drake"You don't end up with zero, you end up with negative because now you're borrowing money, especially once you have a baby. How do you get formula? How do you get diapers? How do you get clothing?” - Yenni Rivera MartinezGuests:• Krista Colón: Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications Strategies, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence • Teniecka Drake: Survivor Advocates Team, Rainbow Services• Yenni Rivera Martinez: Family System CES Coordinator, LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority); Survivor Advocate, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence Full Episode Notes are located HERE.  They include related episodes, articles, and more.Music In the Middle: Eric Kupper remix of “U Try Livin' Pressure” by Black Guy White Guy and 808 BEACH featuring Anelisa Lamola related by The Red Hot Organization.  "Steppin" and "The Gall" by Podington Bear. Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, Sabrina Artel, David Neuman, Nat Needham, Rory O'Conner, Janet Hernandez, Sarah Miller, Jeannie Hopper, Nady Pina, and Jordan Flaherty FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LFAndFriendsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel

Part 1 of 2In this live episode of Stand on Guard, host David Krayden discusses how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Online Harms Act is going to create chaos as competing groups accuse each other of hate speech and want the police to lay charges.Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/bewgSDTMRj8?si=WNj2O-SW_b-9gBLXPart 2: https://youtube.com/live/XOfmGMzfK-YFight Back on Bill C-63, Online Harms Act-Contact Your Member of Parliament https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en  -Sign the Justice Centre's “Stop the Online Harms Act Petition” https://www.jccf.ca/petitions/KRAYDEN'S RIGHT: RESOLVE TO RESISTThanks for watching to the end this really helps small channels like this!  I include Canadian NEWS LINKS of the articles I write in my video descriptions. ...SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM JOIN THE KRAYDEN'S RIGHT RESISTANCE:-Stand on Guard Store Merch with a Message: https://standonguard.store/-Substack FREE or Paid Subscription: https://davidkrayden.substack.com/-Buy Me a Coffee (1 time support): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kraydensright-Join YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1ED4fuuXo07MoobImXavaQ/joinLocals / Rumble Subscriber Option: https://kraydensright.locals.com/Pay Direct on Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/standonguard...SUBSCRIBE & HIT THE BELL TO KEEP SEEING THIS CHANNEL-Please SUBSCRIBE & HIT the bell. This is FREE and it will help you BEAT Trudeau's censorship so you get notifications on my YouTube Channel even when the censorship laws come into FULL effect so Trudeau and YT cannot hide this content: https://www.youtube.com/@KraydensRightwithDavidKrayden -And/or subscribe and hit the notifications on my Rumble channel to also keep informed of the latest Canadian news you won't hear on the msm https://rumble.com/user/KraydensRight...MORE ways you can find and support my work:   -Krayden's Right Substack: https://davidkrayden.substack.com/-Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/KraydensRight-Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidKrayden-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KraydensRight-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KraydensRightwithDavidKrayden-Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stand-on-guard-with-david-krayden/id1684148154-Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YfyNi7gqJpRYS7iuGcWhwNEW!! You can now find Stand on Guard with David Krayden on most podcasts: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Youtube music, Substack.

Working in child protection takes you to the darkest corners of humanity. Former detective Jack Roney, devoted over a decade to Queensland Police's Child Protection Unit, where he not only tackled some of the most heinous offences in the Crimes Act, but also took on the role of guardian for children who had witnessed unimaginable horrors, including homicide. In this discussion with Brent Sanders, Jack shares the harrowing story of two parents who were murdered in front of their seven children. Hear about the complexities of working in this field, the emotional toll it takes on an officer, and the nuanced challenges of dealing with minors in the aftermath of such traumatic events. This episode has descriptions of child sexual abuse and SIDS. For further information and support for issues regarding sexual assault, family, and domestic violence, contact 1800 RESPECT. For further information and support regarding SIDS or the loss of a child, contact the Red Nose Foundation. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. If it's an emergency, dial 000.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How about this for a statistic to make you proud to be a New Zealander?  In the past seven years, since Oranga Tamariki was established, 57 kids have died because of abuse or neglect in New Zealand.   They're the numbers being reported today as we try to get our heads around the death of another toddler, Ruthless Empire, who died just days before his second birthday from what the police described as “blunt force trauma”.  Not only that. But none of the people living in the house where he was living bothered taking him to hospital for another 12 hours after he was assaulted.  So he didn't have a hope, did he?   There was one comment that the cop in charge of the investigation said over the weekend that really stuck with me. Detective Inspector Nick Pritchard said the level of violence towards Baby Ru was “difficult to fathom”.  And when you get a detective talking like that - who will have seen all sorts of things - you just know that this poor little boy really suffered.  When the anti-smacking law came into effect in May 2007, supporters of it said it would reduce the number of infant deaths in New Zealand. When I say the law “came in”, it was actually an amendment to existing legislation.   Because, up until that point, the Crimes Act said parents couldn't be prosecuted for assaulting their kids because there was a legal defence of “reasonable force”.  So Green Party MP at-the-time, Sue Bradford, championed the amendment which became known then, and is still known now, as the anti-smacking law.   And you may well remember people who supported it at the time saying that it was going to mean a reduction in the infant death rate.   Because if parents weren't allowed to smack their kids, then there was less likelihood of someone really losing the plot and smacking a child to death. That was one of the arguments in favour of it  And I thought the same too at the time. But kids are still dying. 57 of them in the past seven years. Baby Ru being the latest.  Which tells me that the anti-smacking law has failed. Yes, there will undoubtedly be less kids getting smacked by their parents than there used to be.   But is a child being killed every six-and-a-half weeks - because that's what this stat being reported today averages out at - is that a good reason to say ‘woohoo, that anti-smacking law really worked'.  Because it hasn't. And it is shameful that kids are still dying in these numbers here in New Zealand.  But even though I think the anti-smacking law has failed, I don't think that's a reason to get rid of it or amend it back to what it used to be. I think we still need it  Because why would you change the law and make it ok to beat kids? You just wouldn't, would you.  But my thinking is that as long as there is a law to protect kids - even though it's failing - as it's there, it is going to make some people think twice about how they discipline their kids. So my view is that it's failed, but we still need it.  And then there is Oranga Tamariki. It's been around for seven years and, in that time, 57 kids have died because of abuse or neglect in New Zealand.   That's another fail. How could it be anything else? But it was always going to fail. Because when you've got an organisation that gets 70,000 to 80,000 calls every year from people who think a child might be in danger, of course there are going to be failures.  I'm not saying it's good enough. But, sadly, it is inevitable. And kids like Baby Ru are the ones who suffer the consequences. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three people were at home when Hutt valley toddler Ruthless-Empire was fatally injured according to police, so why more than a week on, hasn't anyone been charged? The trio have been indentified as persons of interest in the investigation, and are offering various degrees of co-operation. The death of Ruthless-Empire Ahipene-Wall, also known as baby Ru, is being treated as a homicide after post-mortem results confirmed he died of blunt force trauma with several external injuries to his body. Injuries that police say occured up to 12 hours before he died. Following the killings of baby twins Chris and Cru Kahui in 2006, the Crimes Act was amended making it an offence for anyone over the age of 18 living in the same household or closely connected to a family, to fail to act on child abuse they are aware of. Jo Wickliffe is a criminal defence barrister and she speaks to Lisa Owen. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6340122057112

A pipeline to prison is how in the incoming Chief Children's Commissioner is describing a proposed ram raid law. The bill, amending the Crimes Act, would see ram raid sentences of up ten years in jail and would give police the power to prosecute children as young as twelve. It's a Labour government bill that was anounced in the lead up to the election and submissions on it closed last week. But Mana Mokopuna, the Children and Young Peoples Commission says a criminal repsonse is not the solution to the problem. Its Deputy Chief Children's Commissioner Dr Claire Achmad speaks to Lisa Owen. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6339884937112

Can you imagine the terror and chaos of having your close-knit community in the remote Irish village of Maamtrasna turned upside down by a gruesome crime? Experience this gripping tale from 1882 as we unravel the horrific attack on the Joyce family and the chilling aftermath that provoked fear and suspicion among locals, ultimately leading to a controversial trial under the newly passed Prevention of Crimes Act. Welcome to a world where tales of dark mysteries and unjust convictions come alive. As we delve into the Joyce family massacre, we track the investigation that led to the arrest of ten men, despite the lack of substantial evidence. We analyse the dramatic turn of events in the trial room, where a change of statements by two of the accused and the daunting language barrier added layers of complexity to this already twisted case. We'll dissect the controversial executions and expose the wrongful convictions that sent shockwaves through Ireland and beyond. We don't stop at the trial; join us as we delve into the aftermath and the long-lasting effects of this historical crime. We will scrutinise the posthumous pardon of Miles Joyce in 2018 and explore the lingering questions surrounding the crime - was there a secret society involved? What were the motivations behind the murders? Get ready to explore one of Ireland's darkest chapters through a riveting story that will leave you questioning justice and the self serving human capacity for truth and deception. Support the showFollow me on Instagram: @irelandcrimesandmysteries Follow me on TikTok: @nuleseire Follow me on Twitter: @IrelandCrimes Subscribe to my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@IrelandCrimesandMysteries Thanks for supporting me. Its very much appreciated !!!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ireland-crimes-and-mysteries--5973961/support.

Eight companies are accused of making and exporting an estimated $29 million worth of tainted fat and meat and bone meal. Two individual company directors and two employees also face prosecution under the Animal Products Act and Crimes Act, following an investigation by the Ministry of Primary Industries. Investigative reporter Anusha Bradley spoke with Corin Dann.

Industrial manslaughter may soon be an offence in almost all Australian jurisdictions. Recent amendments in certain jurisdictions have also introduced the recommendation of the 2019 Boland Review to prohibit insurance and indemnities for WHS penalties.  In this episode of Employment Law for the Time Poor, join Emily Haar, Partner, and Joseph Hyde, Associate, for a review of the current status of these provisions, with a particular focus on the South Australian proposed industrial manslaughter legislation.  With Labor governments having been recently elected in South Australia, New South Wales, as well as federally, the issue of industrial manslaughter is back on the agenda. South Australia, New South Wales, and Tasmania are the only remaining States that have not yet expressly legislated for this offence. However, public consultation on South Australia's draft Work Health and Safety (Industrial Manslaughter) Amendment Bill has finished, with the Government now considering the feedback that was provided. The recently elected NSW Labor Government had attempted to introduce industrial manslaughter legislation in 2021. While there is no current Bill before parliament, it is likely to be on the Parliamentary agenda. At the Commonwealth level, the national model WHS laws are planned to be amended to include the offence of industrial manslaughter, following Australia's WHS ministers agreeing to the move in late February 2023. The offence generally captures negligent or reckless conduct of a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) or its officers that breaches health and safety duties and causes the death of a person to whom a duty was owed. However, the details of the offence vary slightly in each jurisdiction. Jurisdiction Law in force Law being considered Maximum penalties Elements of offence Prohibition against insurance SA   ✓ Body corporate: $15 million. Individuals: 20 years Would apply to officers or individuals acting as PCBUs who engage in reckless or grossly negligent conduct causing the death of an individual to whom a health and safety duty is owed. Not presently included in Bill Vic ✓   Body corporate: nearly $18.5 million. Individuals: 25 years imprisonment. Negligent conduct by persons, including an employer and its officers, which breaches a duty and which  causes the death of an employee or member of the public ✓ Qld ✓   Body corporate: $14.375 million. Individuals: 20 years imprisonment. A PCBU or a senior officer's conduct negligently causes the death of a worker. Includes where a worker is injured carrying out work and later dies. X WA ✓   Body corporate: $10 million. Individuals: 20 years imprisonment and/or $5 million fine. A PCBU engages in conduct that constitutes a failure to comply with their health and safety duty, knowing it is likely to cause the death or serious harm to another person, and causes the death of an individual. Officers may also be charged but additional elements of the offences must be proven. ✓ NT ✓   Body corporate: just over $10.5 million. Individuals: life imprisonment. A PCBU or officer intentionally engages in conduct that breaches their health and safety duty and causes the death of an individual to whom that duty was owed, and is reckless or negligent about the conduct and causing the death of that individual. X ACT ✓   Body corporate: $16.5 million. Individuals: 20 years imprisonment. A PCBU or officer engages in conduct that breaches their health and safety duty and causes the death of an individual to whom that duty was owed, and is reckless or negligent about the conduct. X NSW   ✓ (No current Bill before Parliament)   Note to Division 5 states: “In certain circumstances, the death of a person at work may also constitute manslaughter under the Crimes Act 1900 and may be prosecuted under that Act. See section 18 of the Crimes Act 1900, which provides for the offence of manslaughter, and section 24 of that Act, which provides that the offence of manslaughter is punishable by imprisonment for 25 years.” ✓ Tas   No current provision     X Cth   ✓ Body corporate: $18 million. Individuals: 20 years imprisonment.   ✓ (Commences on a date to be fixed by proclamation or otherwise 22 September 2023)   Victoria, Queensland, and the Northern Territory adopt a penalty unit system, meaning the maximum penalties will increase each year. Tasmania is currently the only jurisdiction whose government has not expressed their intention to introduce the offence. There have been recent calls for Tasmania to introduce industrial manslaughter laws, on International Worker's Memorial Day (28 April 2023), Unions called on the Parliament to commit to introducing the offence. Unions Tasmania secretary Jessica Munday says that "Tasmania is now out of step with the rest of Australia." The prohibition of insurance and indemnities for work health and safety penalties was recommended in the Marie Boland Review of the Model WHS Laws published in February 2019, and also the Senate Inquiry into industrial deaths published in October 2018. This prohibition has been implemented in the recent Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2023 (Cth), as well as in NSW, Victoria and WA. 

New research finds beneficiaries engaging in financial fraud face significantly stiffer penalties than professionals doing the same. Victoria University Professor of Taxation, Lisa Marriot's research finds that between 2018 and 2020, 83 per cent of benefit fraud cases were prosecuted under the Crimes Act, compared with just 16 per cent of tax evasion cases. In those cases, 84 per cent were prosecuted under the Tax Administration Act which provides for much lower sentences than the Crimes Act. Professor Marriot says this is despite the tax offences typically comprising higher average values of offending. She says the inconsistency in the way financial crimes are treated could be addressed by the creation of sentencing guidelines for judges. Such guidelines are already exist for a range of serious offences, including aggravated robbery, sexual violation, grievous bodily harm and various categories of manslaughter. Professor Marriot argues sentencing guidelines for financial crimes would limit inconsistency and create a fairer system.

A law expert says there's no indication Stuart Nash's mistakes amount to political corruption. Communications from Nash are going under the microscope, with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins ordering a formal review. It follows the discovery that he discussed a confidential Cabinet decision with two former political donors in 2020. Nash has been stripped off all Ministerial portfolios, but intends to stay on as Napier's MP. Otago University's Marcelo Rodriguez-Ferrere told Mike Hosking the standard for corrupt use of official information under the Crimes Act is very high. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Misprision of felony is a form of misprision, and an offense under the common law of England that is no longer active in many common law countries. Where it was or is active, it is classified as a misdemeanor. It consists of failing to report knowledge of a felony to the appropriate authorities. Exceptions were made for close family members of the felon and where the disclosure would tend to incriminate him of that offense or another. With the development of modern law, this crime has been discarded in many jurisdictions, and is generally only applied against persons placed in a special position of authority or responsibility. In this case, the offense of misfeasance in public office or malfeasance in public office may be considered instead. For example, corrections officers who stand idly by while drug trafficking occurs within the prison may be prosecuted for this crime. It has been abolished in: England, Wales and Scotland, as part of the criminal law reforms that abolished the distinction between misdemeanor and felony—Criminal Law Act 1967, section 1, Northern Ireland, with the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967— section 1, Ireland, with the Criminal Law Act 1997, section 3, and New South Wales, Australia, with the Crimes Act 1900—section 341. In some cases, misprision has been replaced by a more tightly-defined statutory offense. For example, in England and Wales, the 1967 Act states that a person who has information which might lead to the prosecution of an arrestable offense—and who agrees to accept consideration in exchange for not disclosing it—is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment. United States federal law. Misprision of felony remains an offense under United States federal law having been enacted in 1790 and codified in 1909 under 18 U.S.C. § 4: Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. U.S. courts have held that misprision of a felony requires active concealment of a known felony rather than simple failure to report it. If one knows that one is a target of a federal investigation, it is illegal under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act to erase one's browser history intentionally. Khairullozhan Matanov was prosecuted for erasing computer records about his friends, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev; he pleaded guilty to a lesser included offense in 2015. The federal misprision of felony statute is usually used only in prosecutions against defendants who have a special duty to report a crime, such as a government official. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/support

Thank you for listening to The Brief Case! A podcast for lawyers, hosted by lawyer and cartoonist Sarah-Elke Kraal. Catch us on Instagram (@briefcasepod) and the world wide web: www.briefcasepod.com. My guests in this episode are: Chief Magistrate Janelle Brassington, Magistrates Court of Queensland Deputy Chief Magistrate Anthony Gett, Magistrates Court of Queensland Show them some judicially appropriate love! PSA: The Deputy Chief Magistrate's interview may be CPD claimable for 0.5 points in substantive law (pending the specific CPD Rules in your State or Territory). DCMG discusses: Totaan v the Queen [2022] NSWCCA 75 s16A(2)(p), Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) Mohamed v the Queen [2022] VCSA 136 He is also wearing a very nice tie.

Jake Elliot from @the_framew0rk and Tanya Levin of @leaving.hillsong attended the trial of Brian Houston on a single count of Conceal a Serious Indictable Offence under Section 316 of the Crimes Act for the first 5 days at the Downing Centre in Sydney's CBD.  We recorded notes as best we could, Jake on his iPad and me by hand.  This is Part 1 of our note comparison of the events that unfolded over those 5 days.  This episode covers day 1 and some of day 2 . More of the opening statements will be recorded later.  As far as I know, this level of detail on this trial is available NOWHERE ELSE but Leaving Hillsong The best is yet to come out, so grab a chair and come join us in court! Producer: Kimberly Robinson        

Dylan and Jeremie interview Dr Rachael Burgin, lecturer in criminal justice and criminology at Swinburne Law School and the CEO of Rape and Sexual Assault Research and Advocacy (RASARA), and Shaun Ginsbourg, experienced trial and appellate criminal barrister who appears for both the defence and prosecution, and is a member of the Criminal Bar Association. Guests discuss new affirmative consent laws which requires accused persons to demonstrate consent was given under the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) for sexual assault. 

Let's talk about crime, because all the politicians are as they often do as election time approaches.Nothing unnerves an electorate like a crime wave and the party that seems the toughest to fight a crime threat gets a boost in the polls.Right now National and ACT are running the line that Labour is soft on crime.Yesterday, Chris Hipkins the Police Minister reiterated that the tough on crime rhetoric is exactly that, rhetoric.This morning Mark Mitchell said that Hipkins refusal to say whether they are either tough or soft on crime is evidence that they are in fact soft on crime.So today, Labour has unveiled what they call a gang crackdown.It's a spruce up of the rules.  Toughening some, closing loopholes, plugging gaps.The overwhelming feeling I had was that I couldn't believe that some of these new offences weren't already offences.Previously under the Crimes Act the crime of threatening with a firearm only applied if you were inside the same house as the good folk you were threatening.So driving by and shooting at a house to give the occupants a tickle up was never an offence.It's astounding.  You then have to ask yourself how many administrations that claimed to be tough on crime missed this one. John Banks missed it, Muldoon missed it, National missed it and Labour missed itAnd because all these amendments were hiding in plain sight it makes you wonder whether Hipkins asked the police to have a hunt and find some stuff that sounds tough.It's called virtue signalling. It's politiciking. Sounds tough, but changes little.  Much like Simon Bridges swaggering around with his Strike Force Raptor idea.And that's the great problem with the debate on law and order.  The grandstanding and the exaggeration from politicians with no idea on frontline policing.Are we in a crime wave?  Serious crimes stats are actually down. However, we did have a gang war between two gangs which ended out in 23 houses being shot.Is that an explosion of gun violence on the streets as Christopher Luxon told his London audience last week?Did our post terrorist attack gun laws fail? Well no houses got shot with an AR15 or any other military style semi-automatic. It mostly your common or garden shotgun and the odd high-power hunting rifleI feel this rhetoric that the police are soft on crime repeated over and over again by oppositions politicians and commentators for their own popularity is actually doing more damage to the mana of the police than any government's policies.I'd rather we let the cops doing their job and tell us what they need. They're the professionalsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Government is announcing a suite of new measures today to help Police tackle gangs and intimidating behaviour.Criminal lawyer Marie Dyhrberg told Mike Hosking she'd like to see changes to the wording of the Crimes Act.“You would want to add ‘or near a dwelling house or in a public place' and that's going to get your drive-by shooter.”LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Party leader Christopher Luxon is promising there will be no changes to abortion laws despite his personal views, if he becomes prime minister. But National MP Simon O'Connor is staying quiet on the subject after being asked to remove a Facebook post in support of the US Supreme Court's decision to make abortion illegal. He is one of 35 National MPs who voted against removing abortion from the Crimes Act. Former colleague Amy Adams told Susie Ferguson abortion was a health issue for women and the Roe v Wade ruling was a horrifying reminder that no one can be complacent about hard-won freedoms.

Thousands of protestors in the US have taken to the streets after the Supreme Court overturned women's constitutional right to abortion. But those who are anti-abortion are lauding the decision. The Supreme Court decision does not automatically make abortion illegal in the US. However, individual states will now get to decide if and how to allow terminations. In Aotearoa, abortion is legal and was removed from the Crimes Act in 2020. However, experts believe shockwaves of the US decision will be felt here. Abortion Law Reform Association New Zealand's Terry Bellamak and reproductive rights campaigner Dame Margaret Sparrow, who opened one of the country's first clinics, spoke to Morning Report.

Data shows that anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States more than quadrupled in 2021 compared to the year before despite the passing of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act last year. How dangerous is it for Asians to be in the US these days? How is hate crime against Asian-Americans different from the violence targeting other ethnic groups? And will it ever be eradicated from US society? Host Tu Yun is joined by Professor Josef Mahoney of East China Normal University in Shanghai, Mario Cavolo, senior fellow with the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization, and Dr Zhao Hai of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to have a chat on the issue.

Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell is a sworn member of the Victoria Police in Australia. She has served Victorians for 16 years as a police officer including 6 years at Professional Standards Command - the division responsible for investigating police misconduct, corruption, discrimination and freedom of information, referring investigations to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) where appropriate. Acting Senior Sergeant Mitchell cites ethical conflicts as the reason for speaking publicly about conduct of Victoria Police officers, their Chief Commissioner - Shane Patton, their Minister - the Hon. Lisa Neville MP, and ultimately their Premier - the Hon. Daniel Andrews MP. She feels she can no longer remain silent with the division between police and community is growing, and totally ignored by the leadership of both the police and government. Despite a promise to focus on 'Community Policing' and 'Back to Basics' policing by Shane Patton, Acting Senior Sergeant Mitchell has witnessed the opposite trajectory during the Covid-19 pandemic and is reminding her colleagues that ultimately they will individually be held accountable for their actions, and are still subject to s 462A of the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) which forbids the disproportionate use of force. She is also calling for Victoria Police to remain consistent to the values, ethics and decision making frameworks (such as SELF) that it used to demand of its members a mere 2 years ago. Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0Kn6AFl5G1c --------------------------------- For more information on the class action for authorised workers in Victoria visit: https://policeforfreedom.org The Fair Work Commission Decision with Deputy President Lyndall Dean: https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2021fwcfb6015.htm --------------------------------- DISCERNABLE Our Private Community: discernable.locals.com The Crew Mailing List: https://discernable.io/crew The Video Archive: https://www.youtube.com/discernable The Podcast: http://discernable.io/listen

What people may not know is that the current roll out of the 5G telecommunications network, is a massive undertaking being coordinated around the world and pushed by the corporate elite. Engulfing the entire planet via 100 thousand satellites, millions of telecommunication towers, small cells and billions of 5G connected devices flooding the world with invisible electro smog pollution in the form of electromagnetic radiation. The 5G rollout will increase man-made electromagnetic radiation at unprecedented levels with little to no concern for the safety and wellbeing of the humans who will be exposed to it. In Australia concerned citizens have formed a political Party called the ‘NO 5G Party' - that will be in every state across Australia.  Ray is the president of it at the moment and they have a thousand members and at the next General Election they will be running candidates in every State, specifically on electro magnetic radiation issues. Also, its a Party to educate people that there has been a unprecedented upgrading and building of Mobile telephone towers and ‘small cells' for 5G across Australia - saying it has been happening here in NZ and that most people have no idea that this is happening as we read to this. That in Australia all the Telcos are eagerly waiting the Australian Govt's 5G 26 Gigahertz frequency sale. We know that the 26 Gigahertz band is a frequency that is billions of times higher than the frequencies that we have been exposed up to now. Thus is very problematic health wise. The will come to NZ too. This will mean that 26 Gigahertz Non ionising electro magnetic radiation penetrates our bodies. 26 Gigahertz Non ionising electro magnetic radiation penetrates our bodies. Through both skin and tissue at 26 billion pulses per second.  Compared with only 50 pulses per second as found in the 50 hertz frequency - as irradiated by many of the electrical appliances around the home. Vodafone in this interview admits that the radio wave penetrates the skin - listen. And Ray says that he is sure that people do not consent to that. Some frequencies penetrate the skin to a depth of 8.1 millimetres.  ARPANSA.gov.au - the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency  - listen toabout Dr Ken Karipidis - is an expert on jopw tradition affects the human body. What this has come os that humanity is being assaulted   These wireless frequencies are an assault on the human body.  This is where the battle lines are. The Crimes Act in NZ 1961 - Under Section 2 - gives an interpretation - An assault means the act of intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to the person of another - directly or indirectly  or threatening by any act or gesture to apply such force to the person of another. Electro magnetic radiation is a force and if you do not consent to it - then who ever is touching you or penetrating you - must stop. Otherwise it is an offence under the Crimes Act 1961. Listen to this interview: Of Dr Bruce Hocking's research with children in Australia in 1996   - irradiated from 3 broadcast towers in Sydney NSW.  LISTEN - he found that there was a 60%  increase in childhood deaths from childhood lymphatic leukaemia in the immediate vicinity of those towers. His was a time when the frequencies were far lower than todays frequencies. Listen to 19 children dying with lymphatic leukaemia in Rome Italy when the Italian supreme court found them guilty due to them living in to closer proximity to the Vatican radio station. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-05-10/vatican-radio-officials-convicted-in-electro-smog/1567232 An Italian court has found a Roman Catholic cardinal and a director of Vatican Radio guilty of polluting the atmosphere with powerful electromagnetic waves from a radio transmission station. Note that today - Leukaemia is now the most common cancer in Australian Children  Mobile phones were introduce in 1981 and the sharp increase in childhood leukaemia is no coincidence. Have a listen. Ray also mentions that a sleeping virus that is dormant in a human body can be reactivated when exposed to non ionising radiation .  This is important information. Healthy Heavens Trust in Australia https://healthyheavenstrust.org   This is about regarding Satellites in low geo stationary orbit. Ray's team have filed against Elon Musk and other satellite providers in exposing Australians to electromagnetic radiation from satellites - because they do not know what degree of exposure Australians will be exposed too. Bodily Affects. Synapses and nerves are affected as well as cardiac muscles. There appears to be no cure for exposure to non ionising radiation. Ray says that the new wireless towers are pumping out very powerful radiation - have a listen. Stopping this radiation in Australia is schools is becoming very concerning in schools - a duty of care issue - if wifi is throughout schools - they are technically assaulting the children.  Thousands of Satellites in Low Earth Orbit. 100,000 SpaceX lanced satellites will be up above our head in the next 5 years - plus high altitude platform stations. (see previous interview of Ray) mostly launched from Australian soil - at Wyndham launched into the stratosphere - they are like a giant drones that can stay up there for months. Get this! - Each Orbiting Platform is going to be the equivalent to 1,800 base stations, each … they will circulate in a 200 kilometres circumference and they will have a seamless connection to earth base stations. They are designed to connect to high altitude satellites as well as our basic telephone towers, There is another  reason why this is all happening - your mobile phone will be able to be charged from these flying platforms and you will never have to plug your mobile phone into the wall to get it charged - ever again . Note, there is no mention of the health effects from all the electrical charges and frequencies that we find ourselves immersed in.  No health affects have been factored in. The flying wing will via wireless electricity charge your phone from then on. Ray further says that it's planned that all your appliances in your home will be powered this way -  TV - radio, toaster you name it.  Even your electric car is supposedly planned to be automatically charged (what a fantasy). Wireless power transfer has been around for a long time. Nikola Tesla was planning to do this over a hundred years ago and had completed the preliminary testing and it worked. But, in those days, there was no way to ‘monitor it' and ‘charge for it'. So JB Morgan, Tesla's financier not wanting people to have free transport and pulled the plug on Tesla. The battery powered Tesla cars of today - are a compromise. Listen to Ray, mention that in Australia they have the worlds largest database on health affects. That the scientific consensus states that there is ‘wireless' data that states 68% of all studies - show adverse health affects. Only 24% of all studies show no effect. I did not ask him about the other 8%  Even high voltage powerlines - have affected the birthing rate of cows and Ray on behalf of some pastoralists - have taken the Power companies to court and won - Have a listen. Tell the Telcos that you do not consent to being touched by wireless radiation - and then communicate with these and other Telcos about it - and to stop. www. no5gparty.org.au OTHER Subjects Covered. Electro magnetic hypersensitivity is on the increase globally - especially in cities -  known as EHS it's an established medical condition. We briefly cover the Nuremberg II Trial that is coming up up in September - supposedly on the Isle of Man near England. to counter all the lies being Propagated by MSM and big PHARMA - lock-stepped with the political process in the Western World     That chemists and nurses are now giving jabs - not doctors - begs the question is this professional conduct in relationship to informed consent?  Remember the hippocratic Oath - First di not harm. Rocket Lab here in NZ and putting satellites up across  NZ and around the Southern Hemisphere.  Legal liabilities from space debris. Becoming educated and involved. NZ Websites: www.thebuzz.nz www.therealnews.nz www.Voicesforfreedom.co.nz www.seemorerocks.is www.https://nzdsos.com

The Government is under pressure to explain exactly what the proposed new hate laws would mean for criminal offending. A new, clearer offence in the Crimes Act may be created with penalties that could range from three months' to three years' jail and fines up to $50,000 dollars. The plan's been condemned by the Opposition as 'Orwellian' and a huge win for 'cancel culture'. It wants to know at what point insulting or offensive views could land someone in court. National Party MP Simon Bridges put a scenario to the Justice Minister Kris Faafoi while debating in Parliament. Justice Minister Kris Faafoi said every case is different, but it would be a very high bar. Canterbury University Dean of Law Ursula Cheer spoke to Corin Dann.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Justice Minister Kris Faafoi are under pressure to explain exactly what would become a criminal offence under proposed hate speech laws. A new, clearer offence in the Crimes Act may be created with penalties that could range from three months' to three years' jail and fines up to $50,000. The plan's been condemned by the Opposition as 'Orwellian' and a huge win for 'cancel culture'. Here's political editor Jane Patterson.

The Government is under pressure to explain exactly what the proposed new hate laws would mean for criminal offending. A new, clearer offence in the Crimes Act may be created with penalties that could range from three months' to three years' jail and fines up to $50,000 dollars. The plan's been condemned by the Opposition as 'Orwellian' and a huge win for 'cancel culture'. It wants to know at what point insulting or offensive views could land someone in court. National Party MP Simon Bridges put a scenario to the Justice Minister Kris Faafoi while debating in Parliament. Justice Minister Kris Faafoi said every case is different, but it would be a very high bar. Canterbury University Dean of Law Ursula Cheer spoke to Corin Dann.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Justice Minister Kris Faafoi are under pressure to explain exactly what would become a criminal offence under proposed hate speech laws. A new, clearer offence in the Crimes Act may be created with penalties that could range from three months' to three years' jail and fines up to $50,000. The plan's been condemned by the Opposition as 'Orwellian' and a huge win for 'cancel culture'. Here's political editor Jane Patterson.

The Justice Minister's defending a proposed ramping up of maximum penalties for hate speech.The Government's shoring up our hate speech laws with proposals ranging from a new Crimes Act offence, to making “incitement to discriminate” illegal.Maximum penalties would increase to three years imprisonment and a $50,000 fine.Kris Faafoi told Heather du Plessis-Allan that's because this is a significant offence."If people incite hatred in our community, that can lead to pretty serious repercussions if they're acted on."Kiwis now have until the start of August to take part in public consultation.LISTEN ABOVE

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President Biden Signs COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act Into Law The legislation aims to address the uptick in hate crimes targeting the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander population during the pandemic.    House Votes to Establish Bipartisan Commission Looking Into Capitol Attack The idea to form a commission—in the style of the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks—has been fraught since day one.  New York Attorney General Announces Criminal Investigation Into the Trump Organization The criminal probe means the AG’s office will work alongside the Manhattan District Attorney to investigate possible fraud in the Trump Organization's business dealings.

President Biden signing into law Thursday the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, legislation intended in part to stem a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Boyd breaks down what is in the bill and how it might help Asian-Americans.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Biden Signs COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act Into Law The legislation aims to address the uptick in hate crimes targeting the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander population during the pandemic.    House Votes to Establish Bipartisan Commission Looking Into Capitol Attack The idea to form a commission—in the style of the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks—has been fraught since day one.  New York Attorney General Announces Criminal Investigation Into the Trump Organization The criminal probe means the AG’s office will work alongside the Manhattan District Attorney to investigate possible fraud in the Trump Organization's business dealings.

President Biden Signs COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act Into Law The legislation aims to address the uptick in hate crimes targeting the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander population during the pandemic.    House Votes to Establish Bipartisan Commission Looking Into Capitol Attack The idea to form a commission—in the style of the one that investigated the 9/11 attacks—has been fraught since day one.  New York Attorney General Announces Criminal Investigation Into the Trump Organization The criminal probe means the AG’s office will work alongside the Manhattan District Attorney to investigate possible fraud in the Trump Organization's business dealings.

In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden signed the new COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that passed Congress with bipartisan support. The U.S. House of Representatives approved nearly $2 billion to increase security at the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but it is unclear if the Senate will vote to create an independent commission to investigate the events of the day. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden signed the new COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that passed Congress with bipartisan support. The U.S. House of Representatives approved nearly $2 billion to increase security at the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but it is unclear if the Senate will vote to create an independent commission to investigate the events of the day. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden signed the new COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that passed Congress with bipartisan support. The U.S. House of Representatives approved nearly $2 billion to increase security at the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, but it is unclear if the Senate will vote to create an independent commission to investigate the events of the day. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Congress on Tuesday sent to President Joe Biden's desk a bill to combat the recent rise in hate crimes, including against Asian Americans and people of Pacific Islander descent. It's a rare moment of bipartisanship in a Capitol increasingly gridlocked on major issues. Lisa Desjardins reports on how the U.S. got here and what it means. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Congress on Tuesday sent to President Joe Biden's desk a bill to combat the recent rise in hate crimes, including against Asian Americans and people of Pacific Islander descent. It's a rare moment of bipartisanship in a Capitol increasingly gridlocked on major issues. Lisa Desjardins reports on how the U.S. got here and what it means. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) have introduced their College for All Plan, legislation that would make college education free; CNBC’s Ylan Mui reports concerns that the costs of free education may hit some folks on Wall Street harder than intended. In the wake of rising hate crimes against Asian Americans across the country, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) details the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which pushes Congress to combat racially motivated harassment and violence. Senator Hirono discusses President Biden’s infrastructure plan and bipartisanship on the Hill. Apple’s Tim Cook has whipped up a new batch of tech treats for worldwide consumers, including a springy new iPhone color and a tracking device for all your other devices. Plus, a new study finds that sleep deprivation could increase risk of dementia; Joe, Becky, and Andrew swap secrets for sound sleep, even with a 4AM wake-up call.

The city of Minneapolis is bracing for the verdict of Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. Civil rights lawyer David Henderson discusses the closing arguments. The head of the CDC warned against the steady climb of coronavirus cases in the U.S. Dr. Carlos Del Rio, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, discussed what needs to be done to combat vaccine hesitancy. The House passed two pieces of legislation to close loopholes in the background system, but neither of those bills have a simple majority in the Senate. NBC’s Sahil Kapur reports. Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced the Covid Hate Crimes Act, which would instruct people at the Department of Justice to track down and prosecute anti-Asian hate. The NYPD is also taking new steps to address hate crimes.

Dr. Atul Gawande, professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health, says while the continued pause of the J&J vaccine may harm the public’s trust in getting the vaccine, it may have been necessary for the younger population because there have been incidents of rare blood clots. However, he says there is no evidence the J&J vaccine is harmful for people who are 50 and older. A group of mothers who have lost their sons and daughters due to gun violence and police gathered today to speak out on the issue. Police officer Kim Potter who “accidentally” shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright is arrested and charged with manslaughter. Three nights of unrest and protests have shaken the city of Minneapolis. NBC’s Jay Gray reports. The Senate voted to advance a key bill that would address the increased number of incidents against Asian Americans. The Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act would direct the Justice Department to expedite review of pandemic-related hate crimes and help police agencies establish ways to report such incidents. CNBC’s Scott Cohn reports on the death of Bernie Madoff and the crimes that brought disgrace to Madoff and his family. Madoff died today while serving his 150 year prison sentence. Plus, the volunteers that are helping thousands find vaccine appointments.

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National Party leader Judith Collins expects an "apology" from Speaker Trevor Mallard after it was found that $300,000 taxpayer money was used for his legal fees. "Also, when he's going to resign, take responsibility for his action. And it's not simply the fact that it's cost a tremendous amount of money but actually, it's cost a former staff member of Parliamentary Service their job and their reputation." She said his actions along with not apologising earlier were "deplorable" for a Speaker - "who sets the standard of behaviour for MPs in Parliament". He has now apologised and the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has acknowledged his "mistake". But Collins said that was not enough. "There is no accountability at the moment except for the victim of the situation." She said National's view was: "Trevor Mallard as the Speaker of Parliament sets the behaviour and tone of Parliament, he has taken up the role of saying he was going to stop bullying and bad behaviour and here we have an example where his behaviour and his failure to apologise far earlier has destroyed a staff member's career and their reputation and their livelihood. "For the prime minister to back him is unconscionable." In a statement released on Tuesday, Mallard said it was "incorrect" of him to suggest the man had been accused of rape "as that term is defined in the Crimes Act 1961". Mallard had provided a personal apology to the man for the "distress and humiliation" caused to the worker and his family, the statement said.

Finally, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch mosque shootings was released yesterday and I don't think there was anything that was news to us was there. The intelligence agencies were focused on terrorism being solely the domain of Islamist extremist. The police stuffed up when it came to granting the terrorist a firearms licence.  The officers didn't pay enough attention to the suitability of the terrorists referees. There will be a beefing up of the laws around hate crimes and hate speech - offences for inciting racial or religious disharmony will be added to the Crimes Act. The report advised that strong government leadership and direction is needed to build social cohesion including social inclusion. So tick to the team of five million slogan, but really, the report seemed to suggest that if a disaffected murderous loser wants to harm a whole lot of unarmed innocents, they can pretty much do that if they're living in a free society. In return for our freedoms, there is a mutual trust between one another that we won't do harm to each other. If we do want to live in a lockdown situation, there will be less likelihood of harm coming to you. Intelligence agencies, the report says, didn't know and probably couldn't have known that the attack was being planned. And while it's easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight and say 'ahhhh, missed a trick there', with the hospital admission and the travel and dodgy referees for the gun licence, there plenty of people are admitted to hospital with gunshot wounds who aren't murderous terrorists or even criminals. Systems around gun licencing have been sloppy without people going on to commit atrocities. And Kiwis are an adventurous lot - we travel the world and most of us manage to visit exotic locales without becoming radicalised. It's all very easy to say 'this was missed, this was missed', ultimately, we live in a free and open society. You get someone with a sick and distorted view of the world who comes into our country and decides to take advantage of those freedoms and liberties, I don't think there is an intelligence agency in the world could have picked up on that. It's where we go from there that's the real question.  The Government's already said it's going to accept the findings of the report. Some of them are sensible. We don't want to go overboard and lose many, many, many of the hard won freedoms that we so enjoy just because of one sick loser.  

Thanks so much for listening to our podcast on Elisa Lam.  If any aspects of this case have upset you, please contact these Australian organisations, or if you or someone you know is in immediate danger to themselves or others, please call emergency services. If you would like counseling services, or to chat with a health professional, here are some great resources:  Beyond Blue Australia – 1300 22 4636  Lifeline Australia – 13 11 14 In our news segment for this week, we talk about:  The New York Statue of Medusa. We referenced these sources from The New York Times, The Art Newspaper, this Youtube Video showing the statue IRL.  The death of Solomone Taufeulungaki. We referenced these sources from The Age, The Age (2), The Guardian, The ABC and the Crimes Act 1958.  The trial and freedom of Fair Wayne Bryant. We referenced these sources from The Washington Post and CNN.  For our main case today, the story of Elisa Lam, we use the following sources to aid us in our research:  Where we reference Elisa Lam’s coroner’s report and case, we used sources from the Forensic Science Labatories from the Los Angeles Police Department, Josh Dean’s scans from Medium of the original report and the sleuthing done by Unhammy Sammy on Reddit (thank you!) unpacking the coroners report and Elisa’s toxicology report. We also uncovered this case with the help of the work from the reporters and writers of FilmDaily, CNN, Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know, MammaMia, WikiPedia, All That’s Interesting, Gone At Midnight (a book by Jake Anderson), Snopes and  The mention of her parents suing the Cecil Hotel is from a CBS Local Los Angeles Article published in 2013. A link to the three blog posts written by Elisa that we referenced is here 1 (going away) and 2 (staying in LA) and 3 (phone missing). Her original blogspot blog, Ester Fields is here. And here is the link to her Tumblr Blog. Popular culture references include American Horror Story, How To Get Away With Murder and Dark Water.  Our reference from the APA on Bipolar Disorder and the effects of anti-depression medications are here and here. This is a link to the Youtube Video of Elisa’s final moments in the elevator. This is more info about Cecil Hotel’s treacherous past and it’s refurbishment in 2021, as well as information about the hotel after Lam’s death. More information about the Korean Elevator Game can be found here. Theories about the LAM-ELISA tuberculosis testing can be found here.

Download notes: https://bit.ly/3eFnmFEKey Dates:Sunday 16 August – last day for enrolment to receive an EasyVote Card(Enrolment on Electoral Roll is a legal requirement)Saturday 5 September – Advance Voting startsSaturday 19 September – Election Day (9.00 am to 7.00 pm)BIBLICAL PREMISE OF TODAY'S MESSAGE:As Christians, we have a biblical mandate & duty to cast a righteous voteOur Christian vote is not for sale – we do not give it to the highest bidder!God teaches & directs His people to use our vote to advance the values of His Kingdom in New Zealand, and to stem the tide of ungodlinessQuote by Margaret Thatcher: " I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph". (British Conservative politician. Prime Minister. Quoted –Guardian, London, 23.10.90Quote by Edmund Burke:"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".The Upcoming Elections are highly crucial for the future direction of our nation:NZ will either drift further left into a more liberal & socialistic state with strong atheistic & God-less values and legislationOr, we engage in the political process and steer the nation back toward the right and return to Judeo-Christian values & principlesIn any given Election:Many people neglect to vote (940,000 in 2017)Some people (undecided) vote ignorantly & randomlyMany people vote traditionallySome people vote racially & ethnically or sexistMost people vote selfishlySome people vote tactically & strategicallyGod demands that Christians to vote BiblicallyTHE 5 P'S OF POLITICAL PARTIES & INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATES:PersonalitiesPromisesPoliciesPolitical PhilisophyPrinciples of MoralityElection campaigns are mostly focused on personalities & promisesGod wants us to look beyond personalities & promises and examine the policies and the political philosophy of the parties & their candidatesBut most importantly, what are their principles of moralityRIGHTOUSNESS EXALTS A NATIONProverbs 14:34 (GW)_ Righteousness lifts up a nation , but sin is a disgrace in any society._Politicians would have us believe that:A good economy lifts us a nationA good education lifts a nationClean rivers or clean air lift up a nation, etc.All these things are important, but God says: Righteousness exalts a nation!Proverbs 29:2 (NKJV)_ When the _ _ righteous _ _ are in authority , the people rejoice; But when a_ wicked man rules, the people groan.Righteous:to be just in character and conduct, to be morally uprightthe root word connotes conformity to a high ethical or moral standardthe original significance of the root word "ṣdq" means 'to be straight'Wicked:ungodly & hostile to Godguilty of violating God's standards, laws & principlesChristians should first and foremost look for the moral qualifications of political candidates before they look for their professional qualification.What matters most is:How godly and morally upright is the political candidate?GOD WANTS TO CHOOSE THE NEXT KING (Prime Minister)Deuteronomy 17:14–15 (NET)When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, "I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me," _ 15 __ you must select without fail a king whom the _ _ Lord _ _ your God chooses. _ From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king—you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.verse 15 … you must select = (to appoint someone to a position)… a king whom the Lord your God chooses …This means: God chooses – we (s)elect whom God has chosen!Of all the political parties and political candidates on offer, God chooses, and we must, without fail, elect whom God has chosen.Entire political parties, and many political candidates are completely unsuitable for election according to God's purposes, and should therefore not be elected by Christians.NZ CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE KINGMAKERS IN EVERY ELECTION:In the 2017 Elections, almost 940,000 eligible people did not voteAccording to the 2018 Census, 38% of the population declared an affiliation with the Christian ReligionBased on this ratio, 357,200 Christians may not have voted in the 2017 ElectionOf the Christians who did vote, their votes would presumably be spread across the entire political spectrumIf all Christians in NZ cast a "righteous" vote in the upcoming General Election we would absolutely determine the outcome of the elections!THE POLITICAL SPECTRUMLeft Centre RightLiberals Moderates ConservativesSocialism CapitalismState Control Free MarketTHREE MAJOR BILLS PASSED* BY THE CURRENT LABOUR-LED GOVERNMENT:(two are subject to Referendums)Abortion Legislation Act 2020 (Andrew Little, Labour Party)End of Life Choice Bill (David Seymour, ACT Party)Binding ReferendumCannabis Legalisation and Control Bill (Greens)Non-binding ReferendumPosition of some of the Political Parties on Abortion in 2017:National:"I think what (the Abortion Supervisory Committee) mean is liberalise it, and we wouldn't do that." Bill English – PM (Mar 2017)Labour:"I support women's choice… It does need to be reviewed and upgraded, and I agree with (Leader) Jacinda (Ardern) - we should not have it in the Crimes Act; it is not a crime..." – ex-leader Andrew Little (March 2017).NZ First: New Zealand First believes abortions should be safe, legal and rare. Any change must be subject to a binding government or citizens initiated referendum after a period of public debate.Greens: Our full policy on this is a part of our Women's Policy. In short, our policy is to decriminalise abortion.ACT:"Our abortion laws are archaic, and should be modernized. I have always believed in personal choice, and that extends to the issue of abortion. Morally, abortion is about a woman's body and her choice… The right thing to do is reform abortion law to reflect what actually happens: women exercise choice for their own reasons. If I did not already have a bill on an important moral issue in the Members' ballot I would seriously consider a bill on this issue." - Media Release – David Seymour (March 2017)Resources online & some brochures available at the Info Centre)Value your Vote – Election 2020 www.valueyourvote.org.nzVote Smart 2020 www.prayeratparliament.org.nz/God, Gospel and Government www.prayeratparliament.org.nz/Should Christians be engaged in politics www.prayeratparliament.org.nz/Preaching with Political Content (Stefan Schlogl)The Political Spectrum 

In this podcast, solicitors Caitlin Akthar and Ruth Carty discuss laws relating to sex offences. As well as an overview of common offences, they discuss reforms to the law including: the application of the law of consent to a broader range of offences – s61HE of the Crimes Act; the introduction of a defence of similar age – section 80AG of the Crimes Act; the discretion to declare a young offender is not to be included on the Child Protection Register (CPR) - 3C of the Child Protection (Offenders Registration) Act; and the jury warning explaining potential reasons for inconsistency in a complainant’s evidence - 293A of the Criminal Procedure Act The paper by Caitlin and Ruth, ‘Sexual Offences Against Adults and Children: A New Regime’ is available from: https://criminalcpd.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Sexual-Offences-Against-Adults-and-Children-A-New-Regime-Caitlin-Akthar-and-Ruth-Cary-October-2019.pdf.’ About the speakers: Caitlin Akthar is the Solicitor in Charge of the Indictable Appeals Unit at Legal Aid NSW. She has experience in the NSW Local, Children’s, District, and Supreme Courts; the Court of Criminal Appeal and the High Court of Australia. She is on the New South Wales Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee, and the New South Wales Law Society’s Children’s Issues Committee. Ruth Carty is a Criminal Law Solicitor and the Summary Court’s Manager at the Coffs Harbour office of Legal Aid NSW. She has been with Legal Aid NSW since 2015 and practices in the NSW Local, Children’s and District Courts.  

This is important information for people who are likely to be the victim of a public threat or witness a public threat. Listen and find out more about what we can all do to stop public threats. In this episode we find out about the Stop Public Threats campaign launch by the NSW Attorney General on 25 May 2020. The campaign will educate the community about Section 93Z of the Crimes Act. This section makes it an offence to threaten or incite violence against another person or a group of persons because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status or HIV/AIDS status. Referrals and more information Report an incident: When it is happening: Call Triple Zero 000 At other times: Call the Police Assistance Line 131 444 Visit the website: stoppublicthreats.legalaid.nsw.gov.au Request a workshop on the topic  LawAccess website LawAccess legal information line: 1300 88 529

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com The shooting of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick has prompted state Rep. Chuck Efstration, R-Dacula, to reiterate calls for the Georgia Senate to pass a hate crimes bill previously passed by the Georgia House of Representatives.Efstration, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee, said the Senate should quickly take up House Bill 426 when the Georgia General Assembly reconvenes this summer. The bill, also known as the Georgia Hate Crimes Act, was passed by the Georgia House last year, but it is still sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee.“For two years, I have been working to pass a hate crimes law in Georgia,” said Chairman Efstration. “Speaker David Ralston made this bipartisan bill a priority in the Georgia House of Representatives last year, and I am calling on the State Senate to pass House Bill 426 as soon as possible.”SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com#GwinnettCountyPodcast, #Podcast, #GeorgiaPodcast, #DailyHoroscopes

This week the threat from Covid-19 came closer to home in the Pacific, with the first confirmed cases reported in French Polynesia; the West Papua National Liberation Army has been launching attacks against the operations of a major gold and copper mine, run by US company Freeport McMoran, in its war against the Indonesian state; the Cook Islands will host its first pride day this weekend, as the country's LGBT community gears up for battle to have homosexuality removed from the Crimes Act; the Norfolk Island administrator is stressing the island will not run out of food as it struggles with shipping issues; Niue has become the world's first Dark Sky Place following the International Dark-Sky Association's approval of the island's application for the protection of its sky, land and sea; the practice of traditional tattooing is seen by many in the Pacific as the sole domain of men - but that's not the case everywhere; The first full season of Global Rapid Rugby kicks off this weekend with teams from Fiji and Samoa hoping the competition can be a springboard for players hoping to push for higher honours.

Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used. The amount of money comes to about $150b.  For those living in North America they will not use the term slavery, especially as so many American blacks are descendants of slavery and they prefer to use the word ’trafficking’. As Kathleen is a Sister of Mercy here in NZ -  when working for the 'Year of Mercy' which was 2015, she and other people from 42 countries embraced a ‘theological reflection process’ and out of that they focussed on two areas - the degradation of the earth and the displacement of peoples. She was then asked by her congregational leader to be the NZ liaison person - to collaborate with people within the umbrella group - internationally. Where they use the latest technology available, including Skype to all connect up, and share resources and strategies. Slavery has been present for Millenia  As someone who has a background in Biblical studies - she has looked back through scripture and in the New Testament she says we cannot face the word ’slave’ and it is there so often - and it has been basically translated to the word - ‘servant' and by doing that it sort of obscures the words meaning. That people in the time of Jesus lived in the Roman Empire that depended entirely on slavery.  Which she states is a hidden evil that is dominating our world today. In New Zealand  She says she was privileged to go to the 'Tip of the Iceberg' conference in Wellington in August 2017 and this was where they worked and collaborated with local people to raise awareness of anyone that they may think is being entrapped by certain business or working conditions. https://movementonline.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Tip-of-the-Iceberg-conference-report-2017.pdf This was lead by the NZ Government’s Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment - and that the US Embassy was involved as well.  A  Rev Chris Frazer (a Diocese of Wellington deacon for social justice) was very much behind it as well. https://www.anglicantaonga.org.nz/news/common_life/trafficking_aware Also involved was the Wellington Anglican Cathedral. It was opened in the NZ Parliament by the current Minister of Immigration at the time.  The Honourable Michael Woodhouse and he was very supportive of the whole proceedings. It brought together NGO’s - non Governmental organisations, the NZ Police and she said there were an impressive number of people there. Many of them working at the grass roots. Food Growers Association, Faith groups - from the Catholic Church and the Salvation Army including  Andrew Wallis CEO of the Anti Slavery organisation - Unseen, from the UK spoke - and though NZ has been at the forefront of having women vote, being Nuclear Free and being strongly anti apartheid as in South Africa - Andrew says that in tackling this crime NZ today is where the UK was 7 to 10 years ago.  So we have a long way to go to catch up with where Britain is currently at. https://www.unseenuk.org/ The reason is that in Britain they have the 'UK Modern Slavery Act' where every business is registered and annually must put in a report stating that they know the three levels where their goods come from. Say it is a shirt - so who did they buy it from, where was it made and where was the cotton or the fabric grown? That at each level - they must prove that they are monitoring the product all the way. Thus, following the money to the source of the produce, is how everything is being recorded. This methodology was strongly focused on at the conference - especially by the NZ police. If any person is ‘brought’ into NZ and is suspected of being involved in human slavery - first communications has to go through the Immigration Department (as the predominant victims are usually recent arrivals into NZ) - this she says is a very complex procedure even before it gets to the police. Where as, in the UK - it comes immediately under the Crimes Act. The take-away from the 'Tip of the Iceberg' conference - was to get new legislation like the UK passed in NZ as soon as possible. 2016 was the First Conviction for Slavery in NZ In NZ we have had very few convictions for human slavery in this country. (Most NZers have no idea that such a thing would exist in this country.)   For the first time the NZ Police were able to convict a perpetrator of bringing 16 Fijian people to NZ with lavish promises but to then double cross and entrap them to become enslaved. See below link. The NZ police said it took about 2,000 hours of work to get this conviction - being a huge time consumer due to the complexity of our Law. The outcome of the Conference was that we need to advocate for a change in the Law so as to have it upgraded and streamlined so as to address this horrendous bottleneck to rapid enforcement and justice. This situation was only found out because the Fijians were allowed to go to church one Sunday and one of the congregation noticed how upset a Fijian woman was and went over to see her and ask her to come and have a cup of coffee and that was when the lady spilt out what was happening. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/84262716/faroz-ali-found-guilty-of-human-trafficking So Kathleen says that it’s imperative for us to be very alert and be mindful of situations popping up amidst us - because it is just below the surface and we need to know this. Here is a list that covers points like: If a person does not carry their passport, and do not know much about visas  - or they are not willing to say where they work or for whom they work for.  Or if they are escorted to and from work and they state that they are working everyday and for long hours.  If they do not know where they live or are fearful of giving the address. That they have not been paid. If they hesitate as to talking about who arranged their contract or visas … if they are paying off large debt. Are there signs of self harm and they seem starved.  Finally if the are young people and are absent from school. So the imperative is for us to be mindful and aware of people - particularly immigrants, because had that lady at church not been crying and a parishioner notice and kindly offered to ask to help and assist - those 16 Fijians could still be enslaved today. [What would their family in Fiji think when they were cut off from these workers here in NZ? It must have been very concerning for them.] Other talking points:  Stop the Traffic - Fuzz Kitto - who says that traffickers are really smart so we have to be smarter … traffickers are creative - so we have to be more creative … traffickers are organised - we have to be more organised … traffickers have smart systems so we have to have better ones. Traffickers disempower people - we have to empower people. Traffickers try to make people invisible -  we have to make them visible. Traffickers work across borders - we must work better across borders. Traffickers do more for less - we have to do more for less. https://beslaveryfree.com/australianfashionforum Remember the vehicle driver in Britain recently where a large number of Vietnamese people died in a container on the back of his truck. This type of trafficking is everywhere. We only hear about it, if the police or customs catch them red handed or in a horrific disaster as in this case. Kathleen mentions the documentary film Blue Jeans about workers in sweatshop conditions and terrible pay and long hours  - where she mentions that NZ clothing firms have now closed and taken the business offshore to Asia. With the same ‘old reason’ - that it is un economic to run a business in NZ. Hence sweatshops produce cheap goods.  Keeping the word ‘Slavery’ in the public consciousness  The British want to always name it as Human Slavery - as against Trafficking - and horrendous as it is we are told that 12.5% of victims are in the sex industry and that the vast majority of others say 25% are children are slaves being under 18  and the rest are labour slaves. Also mentioned were crew on ships coming to NZ ports, be it cargo ships or fishing boats and that many of the crew are found to be horrendously exploited. For with fishing boats they can be at sea for months on end and when they dock in NZ ports there is no real ‘haven’ for crew to go and enjoy ‘recreation and rest’ and she even states that though NZ has signed an agreement to offer up a place where visiting crew upon landing can find as a safe ‘location’ to reorient themselves - that has not been forthcoming. To the degree it was mentioned that the crew are often paid in US dollars and in Lyttelton she said there is no bank, they are for US$1.00 given change in NZ$1.00 - (one for one) which is totally immoral.    Also mentioned Kevin Bales a very courageous advocate  - Free the slaves - blood and earth - uncovers many dreadful situations around our planet - smart phones = mining rare earth minerals especially in the Congo.  https://www.freetheslaves.net/   He links the exploitation of the poor people to the exploitation of the earth. An article I=Kathleen did for Word Day against Trafficking in Persons 30 July. https://www.mercyworld.org/newsroom/enews/issue-830/ Kathleen said with regards to paedaphile networks and sex traffic or organ harvesting etc - this was outside her field of expertise.  Yes, the Jeffrey Epstein saga is the tip of the iceberg and there is a huge white slave trade going on that has lots of East European girls conned into applying for modelling careers outside of Eastern Europe and then once away from their own country are kidnapped and pushed into prostitution etc.  Finally Tim mentioned the Executive Order signed on the 21st December 2017 by Donald Trump. Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption Law & Justice Issued on: December 21, 2017 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (Public Law 114-328) (the “Act”), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)) (INA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets. The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuse or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons. I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/

The Battler and Senator-in-Exile Rod Culleton discuss his work to bring our government back to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901 and Common Law. He also gives us invaluable advice about our legal rights to charge anyone with crimes and treason using the Crimes Act 1914, our Constitution, and the Judiciary Act 1903. With these tools, We, the People of the Commonwealth of Australia can take anyone who has harmed us into court, force it to work under the Constitution and Common Law so that we can get justice for crimes committed against us.Support the show (https://www.cirnow.com.au/donate/)

A proposed bill to remove abortion from NSW’s 119-year-old Crimes Act and instead regulate it with a stand-alone health care act has ignited intense debate, both in public and parliament.  This week we're joined by our state political editor Alexandra Smith, and lawyer and co-founder of WomenVote Maria O’Brien to talk through the criminal and legal implications of the bill. Health editor Kate Aubusson will also discuss access and affordability. You can join Please Explain live at the Sydney Opera House on September 1, where we will cut through the soundbites and spin of the elected Morrison Government’s first 100 days in office.  The Please Explain team greatly value your feedback - you can email us here. We'd love to hear from you. And if you value independent, quality journalism, please subscribe to The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald. Thanks for listening and don't forget to check out more great podcasts from The Age & SMH.

How easy are we?Last week, Alfred Ngaro was some half remembered former Cabinet Minister who had slunk into invisibility in opposition.  From time to time pictures came out of the opposition benches and Alfred Ngaro would catch the eye with his shock of silver hair, looking just  like Mike McRoberts long lost twin brother. But that was last week.  How things have changed while we’ve been played.Barry Soper wrote an article bringing to light the rumours that had swirled for a while. That Alfred would split off from the National Party and form a conservative Christian party.It made sense. Alfred has always trumpeted his Christianity, called himself a Zionist and claimed to have been a pastor.But Barry’s article went further, suggesting that National could cut a deal for Alfred and his new party along the lines of the deal with ACT.  The electorate of Botany was mentioned. And this also made sense as National is desperate for coalition partners.Now, the Botany deal has been gently denied by National but that doesn’t matter because mentioning Botany was a stroke of genius.  It fired up the incumbent independent Jami-Lee Ross who dutifully went into attack mode against the party that isolated him. Ross scanned Alfred’s social media for a weapon and he found it: Alfred lightly conflated abortion with the word holocaust.  A powerful, emotionally laden word that rises heckles in many.So bang.  Alfred’s in the paper again for a second day.  He refuses to apologise but mitigates the word saying he should have said the tragedy of abortion and then double downs on his long held belief that abortion is a crime.  He has always opposed moving abortion out of the Crimes Act.So bang again. Many feminists rail against that attitude and put their argument, seemingly oblivious to the fact that people whose mind is set on keeping abortion criminal will never change their view. Alfred doesn’t mind.  His name is in the public sphere again.Meanwhile, Simon Bridges is on the radio with Mike Hosking talking about Alfred.This is all politics 101.  The trick is to get other people talking about you and Alfred has done that all week long. Holey Moley.  I’m doing it now!But it’s all so seemingly calculating.  It doesn’t feel as though this so called party has emerged organically from a significant sector of like-minded individuals. It feels like a political party you order from a catalogue.While Alfred may get the 500 members needed and the organisation together in the 18 months he has before the next election, it will still seem to me like a ruse from the National Party. And if it works and three or so members of this new party take a seat in parliament, there will still be a feeling that all the other people who started parties themselves were gypped.  The Colin Craigs and the Gareth Morgans.  That their two or three per cent of supporters were democratically disenfranchised.So personally, if you think a conservative party is needed and you’d like to support one, then the one I like is the New Conservatives who have done the hard yards by themselves and look pretty prepared really and are not some party you buy in a flat pack and assemble yourself or a party you buy from a takeaways.

Journalist Paula Penfold tells The Detail why she decided to get personal when it came to abortion law reform.

Judith Collins has been condemned for endorsing fake news about France concerning the abuse of children. Critics claim it's the first time a local MP has knowingly spread a story online that's made up, but it also echoes a beat-up story from the time before Twitter.  

Judith Collins has been condemned for endorsing fake news about France concerning the abuse of children. Critics claim it's the first time a local MP has knowingly spread a story online that's made up, but it also echoes a beat-up story from the time before Twitter.  

This episode features pioneer in sexual health, Dame Margaret Sparrow, and abortion law reform advocate Terry Bellamak from ALRAN, in conversation with Amy Pearl of The Weaving House speaking about the much needed abortion law reform in NZ. Recorded LIVE from the Double Denim Headquarters in Wellington.   

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In the first episode for 2016, Jack and Adam peer through the looking glass to review and preview policy issues and events of interest for 2015/16. John Manwarring, the senior policy analyst from VAC joins the discussion. Topics include the repeal of Section 19 of the Crimes Act, PREP, the launch of Harm Reduction Victoria, Community Forums and what's coming up in Midsumma 2016.

On today's show we talk with Paul Kidd from the HIV Legal Working Group about Section 19 A of the Crimes Act and how it contributes to HIV stigma and discrimination in Victoria.