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Australia: Is it time to review drug driving laws? To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In 2006 legislation was introduced in New South Wales giving police the power to undertake roadside drug testing (RDT). Since its implementation the prevalence of

Detectives have ended a major drug operation with the arrest of an alleged trafficker and charging him with 91 offences and seizing illegal substances worth more than $30,000. It was the culmination of Operation Knuckle which included executing 31 search warrants and 166 drug charges against 34 people. On Tuesday Murgon detectives arrested a 24-year-old

Near Grafton, the Clarence Correctional Centre is Australia’s largest prison, state-endorsed, but crucially, privately run.     The largest prison in Australia was opened last week. Set amongst rural plains in the Lavadia region – 12.5 kilometres southeast of the northern NSW town of Grafton – the Clarence Correctional Centre will eventually allow the state to incarcerate

SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian lawmaker whose home was raided amid an investigation into Chinese influence operations accused his foes of a “political lynching” on Monday (June 29), as he denied any wrongdoing. Police and intelligence agents raided the home and office of New South Wales state legislator Shaoquett Moselmane at dawn on Friday (June

Flinders University law Professor David Bright from the Centre of Criminology Research A large volume of criminal offending involves two or more individuals acting collaboratively – yet detailed analysis of co-offending is lacking to obtain more detailed and accurate pictures of criminal networks and broad crime patterns. Much existing research on group crime is from