by Dominic Green | Feb 22, 2021 | Criminal Laws
Cybercrime and Small Businesses: Are you protected? In 2019 Gillian Franklin (founder of The Heat Group, a Melbourne-based wholesale cosmetics company) was in London preparing to knock the socks of Tesco’s representatives during a presentation. All was going well,...
by Dominic Green | Dec 10, 2020 | Criminal Laws
‘I see (the defendants) as vulgar, anti-establishment, antisocial and unpragmatic, but none of those things are indictable’ – Robert Schultz (Prosecutor), The Trial of Chicago 7. After its release on Netflix, The Trial of the Chicago 7 was the...
by Dominic Green | Nov 9, 2020 | Criminal Laws
How do you lose $8.7 billion? It’s got us scratching our heads. But according to the ABC, that’s how much the Australian Government lost to tax evasion and fraud in 2014–2015. Now in the 2019–2020 financial year, you can bet that the ATO will be...
by Dominic Green | Oct 7, 2020 | Criminal Laws
If you haven’t watched The Social Dilemma yet, put it next on your to-watch list. Better yet, substitute the 144 minutes the average person spends on social media each day with watching this doco-drama. It’s a scathing, honest and frightening...
by Dominic Green | Aug 3, 2020 | Criminal Laws
Goodbye $12, 712, 415. That’s how much money Australians lost in June 2020 to coronavirus scams. 15, 491 cases were reported, according to Scamwatch. With more and more services running online and emotions running high, the pandemic provides a breeding ground for...
by Dominic Green | Jul 6, 2020 | Criminal Laws
At the peak of the nation’s COVID-19 control measures, police were granted sweeping powers over Australian citizens. Leaving your house without a reasonable excuse became an offence—and yet in many cases, it was left up to police to decide what a ‘reasonable excuse’...
