Category Archives: Criminal law

3 published posts in this category.

Australian male violence against female partners: the 2024-25 drop

Posted on October 26, 2025 by David Walker

The latest figures on intimate partner femicide show much of a recent rise in men killing women has now been reversed, at least temporarily. Prologue : Violence against women is a bad thing, and it’s still bad even when, as the article below points out, it used to be far worse...

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Posted in Politics - national, Methodology, Criminal law

Mime, misdirection and pyramid of code

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Nicholas Gruen

The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitutional monarchy: A pyramid with a chief executive at the top with the rest of the pyramid made up of checks and balances on...

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Posted in Philosophy, Innovation, Best From Elsewhere, Ethics, Cultural Critique, Death and taxes, Bullshit, Employment, Sortition and citizens’ juries, Isegoria, Coronavirus crisis, Criminal law

House of Grief?

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Ken Parish

A few years ago I read a book by the iconic Australian author Helen Garner titled "House of Grief". It dealt with the trial and conviction of a man named Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three young sons Jai (age 11), Bailey (age 7) and Tyler (age 3) on Fathers' Day in...

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Posted in Law, Criminal law