On 5 July 2018, Olga came home from work to find John had killed their teenage children.
This week, state coroner Teresa OâSullivan found that a series of critical âerrors and omissionsâ made by police, firearms registry staff and a family court lawyer in New South Wales allowed Edwards, a man with a decades-long history of domestic violence, to murder his children.
OâSullivan again raised questions about how the family law system operates, only months before it is set to undergo its most significant transformation since the family court was established in 1975.
But the Morrison governmentâs plan to establish a single point of entry to the court system â which currently shuffles cases between the federal circuit court and family court based on their complexity, often causing delays and subsequent increases in costs â will not address the family law systemâs many serious deficiencies, according to multiple people spoken to by Guardian Austral
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A 36-year-old Anaiwan Dunhutti man, Nathan Reynolds, died in 2018 gasping for air on a prison floor from an asthma attack after guards took an “unreasonably” long time to come to his aid.
The NSW deputy coroner Elizabeth Ryan said the “confused, uncoordinated and unreasonably delayed” response by prison guards and health staff deprived Reynolds of “at least some chance” of survival.
Reynolds’ family, who have waited almost three years for answers as to how and why he died – and, crucially, for somebody to be held responsible – heard the NSW deputy coroner give a brief summary of her findings on Thursday.
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Aboriginal justice advocates have expressed their devastation following a third Indigenous death in custody in a week and demanded the Australian prime minister urgently meet with bereaved families to progress reforms.
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (Natsils) representatives from across the country, who met on Thursday, said they were “horrified and deeply upset”.
“We are extremely concerned that while our people continue to die in custody at alarming rates, federal, state and territory governments have had the answers to end this injustice for 30 years but have chosen not to act,” they said in a statement.
Creepy and ruthless Facebook has again impressed with its steely indifference to civic responsibility, as if a company established by a sociopath could ever be a model of human improvement. On February 18, Mark Zuckerberg s antisocial company took aim at Australia by blocking those in that country from sharing local and international content. As the company notice to those trying to share material went: In response to Australian government legislation, Facebook generally restricts the posting of news links and all post from news Pages in Australia. Globally, the posting and sharing of news links from Australian publications is restricted.
As with previous thugs of mercenary trade (the Dutch East India Company and its British equivalent come to mind), Facebook is keen to make the rules it likes, and ignore those of the commonweal. It is a plundering pioneer in the world of surveillance capitalism, which has led to what Shoshana Zuboff calls an epistemic coup with unprecedented c