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Festival Season Special: NYE 1999 – The Year When Police Praised Ecstasy Users

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By criminal lawyer Joseph Harb. Mr Harb is a specialist drug lawyer whose results include securing non-convictions for supply of 560 ecstasy tablets and possession of 88 ecstasy tablets at festivals in Sydney. It was the dawn of the millennium and the biggest New Year’s Eve party that Sydney had ever seen. Ecstasy and MDMA […]

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Festival Season Special: Why are more people dying at festivals?

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By criminal lawyer Joseph Harb. Mr Harb is a specialist drug lawyer whose results include securing non-convictions for supply of 560 ecstasy tablets and possession of 88 ecstasy tablets at festivals in Sydney. Ecstasy has been used by revellers at raves and festivals in Sydney for almost 30 years, but rather than its use becoming

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George Pell and fellow Cardinals

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Italy There are about 40 million Catholics in Italy, which represents about 70% of the Italian population. Hundreds of priests have been accused of sex crimes in Italy. Few have been convicted and ever fewer have gone to jail. In Italy, as in many other parts of the world, it is difficult to establish the

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Would Cardinal George Pell be in prison if he committed the same crimes in a different country?

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Cardinal George Pell is appealing his conviction for sexually abusing children to the High Court of Australia. Cardinal Pell is the most senior Catholic, and only bishop, to be sentenced for child sex offences. Historically, it has been notoriously difficult to prosecute members of the Clergy. To this day, he would not have been prosecuted

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Criminal lawyer Deng Adut calls for Australians to unite, not divide, at Changing the Ratio

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Art B&T’s Changing the Ratio conference on 28 May 2018, our co-founder, criminal lawyer Deng Adut called for unity, telling the audience: “Make Australia your religion, don’t divide Australia”. Deng’s story is well known. He is a child soldier and refugee turned criminal lawyer and NSW Australian of the year. He was conscripted to fight

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NSW Australian of the Year Deng Adut calls President Trump’s immigration ban ‘hypocritical’

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South Sudanese refugee and NSW Australian of the Year Deng Adut has spoken out against US President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, telling Channel 9 the “punishment of weak countries has to stop“. Mr Adut, a lawyer and author who dedicates his time providing Sudanese refugees with legal advice at his Blacktown practice, said that

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QLD Lock Out Laws scrapped. Are Queenslanders better on the booze than New South Welshmen?

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By Joseph Correy This week while Sydney celebrated 3 pubs being granted exemptions to the Lock Out Laws, our Northern neighbours continued to get on the grog all night long. Queenslanders savoured their drinks when the QLD Government scrapped a 1am lockout to commence on 1 February 2017. In NSW, Sydneysiders remain locked out of

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