Since Australia is part of the Five Eyes global 'Anglo-sphere' surveillance network, whatever policies apply abroad are brought into this colony too.
See approx 16min video by The Hated One:
A look into Corporate fraud in Australia, Stranglehold of Monopolies, Telecom's Oppression, Biased Law System, Corporate influence in politics, Industrial Relations disadvantaging workers, Outsourcing Australian Jobs, Offshore Banking, Petrochemical company domination, Invisibly Visible. It's not what you see, it's what goes on behind the scenes. Australia, the warrantless colony. Note: Site has more info in desktop mode or 'web version' as seen at bottom of page, when on smartphone.
Since Australia is part of the Five Eyes global 'Anglo-sphere' surveillance network, whatever policies apply abroad are brought into this colony too.
See approx 16min video by The Hated One:
Australia is inherently a corrupt to the core nation, period.
It's been corrupt from the very beginning, but more importantly after 40 years of Martial Law when some sort of legal framework was established in under the Australian Courts Act of 1828.
It was so corrupt that the Imperial authorities had to step in and enact the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865.
In reality that did not stop the corruption, but rather only established some sort of 'Kangaroo Court' paperwork.
With that legal history out of the way, until today corruption is rife and quite simply put, the people that run this colony do so with impunity, where there is no end in sight.
They are literally above the law, where it is difficult for a member of the serf pool to get them physically into the court room.
The 'gatekeepers' called the registrars are also part of this corruption.
March 24, 2005 — 11.00am
In his parting words from the Supreme Court bench, John D. Phillips warns of a dangerous erosion of the court's independence.
For more than 14 years I have been sitting here, and it has been hard and unremitting, but exciting and rewarding - emotionally, I hasten to add, before I am misunderstood. But for much of that time I have had to bite my tongue.
I refer to policy matters rather than the debate within a particular case. For, during my time on the bench, and especially as I grew more senior, I have watched with some concern a change emerge in the perception of this court by others and some blurring of essential distinctions. I want to speak briefly of that now because I have been unable to say much about it until now and when my resignation becomes effective, I fear that nobody will listen.
As we all know, the independence of the judiciary is a cornerstone of our constitutional system, particularly the independence of this court, which must, from time to time, tell the political arms what they can and cannot do according to law. As a court we will rarely, if ever, be popular with politicians, but while I have been sitting here, I have seen what appears to me to be some erosion of this court's independence.
One of the most public examples recently was the refusal of the executive to accept the decision on remuneration handed down by the tribunal established by the Parliament for the very purpose of freeing both Parliament and the executive from the invidiousness of the decision-making process over judicial salaries and so ensuring the independence of which I am speaking.
That appears now, if I may say so, to have been but part of a movement towards this court's becoming absorbed into that department, and it is that to which I want to draw attention in particular; for such a movement must be reversed if this court is to have, and to keep, its proper role under the constitution.
This court is not some part of the public service and it must never be seen as such. Established as a court of plenary jurisdiction and with supervisory jurisdiction over all other courts and tribunals, this court is the third arm of government, co-equal in concept with Parliament and the executive. Its role, inter alia, is to control and to limit those other arms according to law and to that end to stand between those other arms and the citizen. Hence the emphasis on the court's independence, especially from the executive.
Yet within the Department of Justice this court is now identified and dealt with - would you believe - as "Business Unit 19" within a section labelled "courts and tribunals", a section which indiscriminately includes all three tiers of the court structure and VCAT.
This court is subject to direction on the raising of taxes in the form of court fees - in that these are prescribed by departmental regulation, even if a part of those fees is redirected to the court by the department at its discretion. The other day the department used a regulation to prescribe a procedure in this court, apparently in disregard, if not in defiance, of the convention that such matters are for rules of court.
And perhaps most troubling of all: the judges' computers, which were provided by and through the department, are but part of the departmental network. I do not say that departmental officers ordinarily avail themselves of the access that that affords; one hopes the department has some controls in place. But access is possible, and that seems to me altogether inappropriate when the state, in one form or another, is the major litigant in this court, and sometimes on matters of critical import to the wider community.
Nobody is suggesting that the executive would ever seek to influence a judge's decision directly, otherwise than by argument in open court, but what has been happening is more insidious. What is evolving is a perception of the court as some sort of unit or functionary within the Department of Justice, a perception which is inconsistent with this court's fundamental role and underlying independence.
Indeed I think it is fair to say that the Supreme Court, despite its dominant role within the court structure and its constitutional role vis-a-vis the other arms of government, is now seen by some in authority as no different from a tribunal, nowadays the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in particular. That is simply not the case; yet the distinction between a court and a tribunal has been steadily undermined over the years, and it must be restored if the proper constitutional position is not to be subverted.
The basic distinction is easy enough. A court exercises judicial power and must be, and be seen to be, impartial and so must be independent of all else. Accordingly, its judges are appointed once and for all, and ideally, without hope of additional gain or reward from anyone, including any other arm of government. Hence Parliament's creation of the specialist remuneration tribunal. In contrast to a court, a tribunal, properly so called, exercises administrative functions but not judicial power, and many things flow from that. Such a tribunal may be an arm of the executive; its members may be appointed for fixed terms, with the possibility of renewal at the discretion of the executive; and the need is not so great, to see that their remuneration is fixed independently of the executive.
You will see, now, how far the distinction between court and tribunal has become blurred. While the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is staffed by a few judges, it consists mainly of members appointed for fixed terms, capable of renewal at the discretion of the executive - and hence my alarm when, in addition to its administrative work, that tribunal was given some judicial power to exercise, for the latter is altogether inconsistent with such a form of tenure.
There is talk now of acting judges for this court, and again, because this is a court which is exercising judicial power, such would be anathema. It is one thing to tolerate the occasional acting appointment to this court for a limited time or purpose; it is altogether different to institutionalise such temporary appointments at the discretion of the executive. Judges of a court properly so called must have security of tenure or, in a relatively small community like this in Victoria, the whole system is put at risk. Our courts have been remarkably free from any taint of bias or corruption; let it remain that way. A judge must be, and be seen to be, impartial and so must eschew all other interests which might one day give rise to conflict or the appearance of bias.
In my book, the judge must forgo the current cult of the individual: to adapt Edmund Burke, "individuals pass like shadows, but the (institution) is fixed and stable". The judge is sometimes accused of remoteness but in one sense that is no more than the reverse side of the commitment, the total commitment, which is demanded of the appointee.
XXVIII. And whereas under an Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the more effectual Administration of Justice in New South Wales and its Dependencies, the Number of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales constituted under the said Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth has been increased to Five, and One of such Judges is resident, and has such Power, Jurisdiction, and Authority within the District of Port Phillip, subject to such Appeal to the said Supreme Court as by the said Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales is provided : Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to erect and appoint a Court of Judicature in the said Colony of Victoria, which shall be styled “The Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria ;” and such Court shall be holden by One or more Judge or Judges, and shall have such ministerial and other Officers as shall be necessary for the Administration of Justice in the said Court, and for the Execution of the Judgments, Decrees, Orders and Process thereof ; and all the Provisions of the said Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, concerning the Appointment and Removal of Judges and Officers of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and for the appointing Persons to act in the Place and Stead of Judges being absent, resigning, dying, or becoming incapable to act, and concerning Appeals to Her Majesty in Council from Judgments, Decrees, Orders, or Sentences of such Court, shall apply to the said Supreme Court to be erected in the said Colony of Victoria, but so that the Powers of the Governor of New South Wales in relation to the Matters aforesaid shall be vested in the Governor of the Colony of Victoria ; and from such Time as shall be mentioned in such Letters Patent all the Authorities, Powers, and Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and of any Judge thereof, over or to be exercised within or in relation to the said Colony of Victoria, including all Admiralty Jurisdiction exercisable within the Limits thereof, shall cease to be had and exercised by such last-mentioned Supreme Court and Judge respectively, and shall thenceforth be vested in and exercisable by the Supreme Court erected by such Letters Patent ; provided that in the meantime the said Authorities, Powers, and Jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the Judges thereof, within and in respect of the said Colony of Victoria shall remain as if this Act had not been passed, unless or until the same shall be varied by Act of the Governor and Council of the said Colony of Victoria.
However, no such letters patent has ever been received in Victoria... THE 1855 Constitution for Victoria was also silent on the nature and scope of Judicial Power within the newly established Colony. It was not until the 1975 Victorian Constitution the power of the Supreme Court was consolidated into statute, but under what power?
"Never trust the government, it is NEVER for the children!!"
"This is all on purpose to take away our privacy and give big brother control over everything."
A record available at this identity theft service that includes the drivers license for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, one of several high-ranking U.S. government officials whose drivers licenses can be found for sale.
On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North America. The source brought it to my attention because the proprietor of this identity theft service offered my Virginia drivers license as a free sample in their initial sales thread on Exploit.
The service, dubbed Nexus, claims to have more than 153 million drivers licenses for people in the United States and Canada, as well as more than 10 million identification cards; more than three million travel documents and/or international IDs; and at least 579,000 medical cards.
A quick look around Nexus finds they are likely not exaggerating about that 153 million number: Running a blank search in Nexus (with no search parameters entered) returns approximately 11.5 million pages of results, with roughly 15 results displayed per page. It includes documents from people in both Canada and the United States, but the bulk of these records are on Americans: searching for just Canadian drivers licenses returns approximately 1.1 million results, with the largest concentration from Ontario (473,673 records).
Curiously, the identity records include not only drivers licenses but also marijuana dispensary cards. Some of the records list their “source” as “CDL,” presumably short for “commercial drivers license.” Other records carry the source notation of “CAC,” which may refer to Common Access Cards, government issued identity cards that grant physical access to government buildings and secure rooms.
The people behind Nexus claim the license images are coming from an active breach at “a major identity verification company” whose customers include multiple Fortune 500 companies.
The record totals listed by the Nexus identity theft service. The number of drivers
license records increased by nearly 400,000 in the span of just 24 hours.
“We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database,” the service enthused in its introductory post on Exploit. “Records are available to preview before purchase with pertinent information redacted. Customer photos are displayed if available.”
Indeed, over the past 24 hours, the number of drivers license records listed as available in Nexus has increased by nearly 400,000, suggesting that freshly stolen license data is being harvested and uploaded to this service on a semi-regular basis.
The record featuring my drivers license includes six image files: three pairs of photos of the license’s front and back, a basic image scan, as well as infrared and ultraviolet versions of the same images. A date and timestamp is appended to each image file, and the timestamp on my license scan corresponds to a date in June 2025 when I took a flight to the midwest United States to attend a family funeral.
Some of the 153 million+ license scans — including mine — feature six image files with date and timestamps appended to the filenames. Not all records include photos, and some that do feature photos do not display the associated filenames.
Intent on discovering the source of this data, KrebsOnSecurity asked more than a dozen friends and family members for permission to search for their licenses in this service. Each person whose license could be found (nine of them) confirmed having traveled on or very close to the dates in the timestamps attached to their images. It is unclear what timezone these timestamps are in, but from reviewing car rental records shared by several people who helped with this research, it appears the timezone is set to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
At first, I thought the source of the data might have something to do with airports. However, that theory went out the window when it became apparent there were no passports in this data set. Also, only some of those who helped with this research said they showed their drivers license at the airport on the day of their travel. One person whose license was in Nexus hadn’t flown at all recently, but was renting a car from Hertz for several months around the date of their timestamp.
Two of those who agreed to help are federal employees who said they shared other forms of government identification when passing through airport security. However, those individuals each said they shared their state-issued drivers licenses later that day when renting vehicles at their respective destinations, and that both rented their cars from Hertz.
After finding a note in my calendar for the day of my June 2025 flight reminding me to bring my passport, I remembered that I also never actually shared my drivers license when I went through security at Reagan National Airport on that day because I did not yet have a Real ID, a security-enhanced drivers license that is now required by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for all domestic travel. Instead, I showed the TSA agent my government-issued U.S. passport.
Here’s where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother’s drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That’s notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.
According to my mom, the only place she gave her drivers license to that day was the rental car company, and if memory serves that is also true for me. I don’t recall if the rental car representative inserted our licenses into any kind of machine, but I remember they held onto them for several minutes behind the counter while we were signing various forms. KrebsOnSecurity sought comment from Hertz and will update this story in the event they reply.
Zach Edwards is a well-known security and privacy researcher who recently launched a service called DecryptAds to help people better understand how online advertisers are tracking them. A scan of Edwards’s drivers license is available for purchase on this identity theft service, and Edwards said the timestamp on his record corresponds to the middle of a trip last month to Las Vegas for the annual DEFCON security conference.
Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.
To enter Planet13’s weed dispensary in Las Vegas, one must pass through a red telephone booth. Image: Zach Edwards.
Edwards said the dispensary he visited that day was Planet13, a multi-state chain with stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Nevada. In 2022, the New Orleans-based identity provider idscan.net published a press release announcing an exclusive identity verification agreement with Planet13’s dispensaries nationally. IDScan says it processes ID verification for more than 1,000 marijuana dispensaries in 19 U.S. states.
The “trust” page of idscan.net states that the company provides identity verification services for numerous big brands, including Hertz, Target, Fedex, Motorola Solutions, the financial services giant Jack Henry, and Caesars Entertainment. And as idscan.net’s own documentation states, the technology scans IDs with both infrared and ultraviolet light. Idscan.net says the company’s systems and technology perform more than 21 million verifications monthly, at more than 20,000 locations around the world.
Image: idscan.net.
Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.
“At this point I’m not able to share any additional information, but the updates you have provided have been welcome, and helpful to our team’s investigation,” wrote Jillian Kossman, a marketing and operations leader at idscan.net.
During the course of my research for this story, word got around to the FBI that I was poking at the apparent source of this new identity theft service’s data. Probably they were tipped off when I shared with a trusted source that Nexus also is selling the drivers license information for the assistant director of the FBI (I did not find FBI Director Kash Patel’s license in Nexus).
Earlier this afternoon, I was added to a conference call with a half-dozen FBI agents, including senior leaders from the agency’s cyber division. During that call, the FBI shared that earlier today their New Orleans field office opened an official investigation into an apparent breach involving idscan.net.
Edwards said that as more in-person and online experiences require sharing drivers licenses, vendors who collect this sensitive data need to be held to a higher standard.
“This episode should further strengthen the resolve for people who are fighting back against online ID schemes which are requiring countless providers to ask for drivers licenses in order to access services under the guise of protecting kids,” Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity. “These systems are putting sensitive data into more and more 3rd party vendors, and we don’t have nearly the oversight to ensure they are safe.”
Larry Baldwin is principal intelligence researcher at the cybersecurity firm Cybera. Baldwin said a front and back scan of his drivers license available at Nexus contains timestamps that correspond to the date of a car rental from Hertz on a recent vacation.
Baldwin said the Nexus identity theft service presents multiple serious security and privacy threats, noting that state-issued drivers licenses are commonly used as proof of one’s identity when opening new lines of credit. Baldwin said the service could also dangerously expose many people who do not wish to be found but who cannot meaningfully change their appearance (or at least not enough to fool today’s AI-based image matching tools).
This category of people, he said, includes those fleeing domestic violence, and even people who have been assigned a whole new life and identity as part of the federal government’s witness protection program, which is generally reserved for criminal defendants in racketeering and conspiracy investigations who agree to cooperate with federal authorities.
“Just when it seems like we’re making some headway in improving authentication controls through drivers license verification systems, this happens and the very thing those improvements are dependent on are compromised,” Baldwin said.
Update, Sept. 2, 6:05 p.m. ET: A spokesperson for Caesars Entertainment said Caesars has not been a client of IDScan.net and has not used VeriScan since February 2025, despite IDScan.net listing them as a client on their website. That person said Caesars had no active VeriScan accounts at the time of the incident and did not authorize IDScan.net to retain data from its accounts, and that IDScan.net said the incident should have no impact on Caesars Entertainment.
Update, 8:56 p.m. ET: Shortly after this story was published, the Nexus identity theft service website vanished from the darkweb, replacing its login page with a plain text message that reads, “This service is no longer available.”
This is a potentially fast-moving story. Any changes or updates will be noted here along with a timestamp.
Source:KrebsonSecurity.
See also short explanation by Matt Johansen on this topic:
SO, WHEN WILL THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT COMPENSATE YOU WHEN (NOT 'IF') YOUR PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION GET BREACHED?
AFTER IT'S 'THEIR' LAWS.
SORRY? THEY'RE NOT GOING TO OFFER YOU A REMEDY, AT LAW?
See (11m28s) video by Tech Win Cyber of the title:
Why New South Wales Is Scanning Every Driver's Face
The next stage of the Orwellian dystopia is upon us.
Enjoy your freedom to breathe air, for now.
That's life in the FiveEyes (penal) colony.
The colonialists are (still) in charge of this dumpster fire called Australia.
Some people may be of the opinion that the authorities want to stamp out crime, but that’s not actually correct, as actions speak louder than words.
The federal government’s immigration policy is that it imports criminals into the colony, where they continue to commit criminal activity on this land, where it’s all about the ‘economy’.
Keeping in mind that what's good for the economy, may not be good for the people.
The more criminals, the better for the judicature, i.e. the administration of so called ‘justice’, but that may be not so good for the victims of those criminal activities.
IF or when you go to court, you are a ‘customer’, period.
And that is true even if you do not hire a lawyer.
Let’s just say that if you’ve got a shoe shop, where you’re open 7 days a week, and you have 5 customers per day you may not be making enough profit to stay open from 35 customers per week.
If conditions changed, where you’re guaranteed 70,000 customers for a whole year, then you’d be ‘raking’ it in.
The same goes for the courts and their ‘officers of the court’, that being the lawyer that you hired to represent you.
It is unclear of what the intention of the article was whether is was supposed to make the reader feel sorry for the system or whether it was a brag.
In any event it is not good for the community to have that many (alleged) criminalsin one state, unless they’re all speeding 3km/h over some arbitrary speed limit which changes depending on what some ignorant bureaucrat sees fit the speed limit to be.
The low quality people in Australia’s governments do what serves them the best and not the community at large.
IF the colony’s governments where truly serious about having a low crime rate, then there are a fair few nations on this planet that have perfectly functioning society with very low crime rates, which the colonialists could have modelled this nations laws on, where this action would have been done generations ago.
The judiciary wants/needs repeat ‘customers’ where their court orders reflect this.
Australia has become a low quality low value society, as a result of federal and state government's actions.
Australia, the shithouse colony, "run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
In the United States of America a study was done into a city the (population) side of what Melbourne was a couple of decades ago where it was found that an importation of people more than 700 per week was unsustainable, from an infrastructure/resources point of view.
In Australia, at that time the authorities were allowing immigration from abroad to the tune of approx. 2,500 corporate fodder into Melbourne, alone.
The authorities have caused austerity on the good people of Australia, by over populating the colony with low quality humans that are of little benefit to Australian society in general, where as a result crime has exponentially risen due to the low quality imports.
Source:supplied
It's been established a long time ago what Australia is, and it's only gotten worse since it was first inked.
In the 1960's, author Donald Horne put pen to paper in his book "The Lucky Country" published in 1964, referring to Australia as the "lucky country".
There are a few problems with this.
First and foremost, the book "The Lucky Country" was never meant to be a complement about Australia, but rather a dig at the low lives running the place.
His sentence describing Australia, was deliberately misquoted and popularised into pop culture, as an alleged complement about this sun burnt land.
The full quote is as follows:
“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.”
It's also quite clear that Mr. Horne did not have a quick peruse at the Constitution, which brings up the next point.
Another 'small' technicality, yet quite a significant legal one is that on the second page of the 'original' Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), it is stated that:
"... the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a self-governing colony for the purpose of that Act"
This was the case in 1964 and still is so today, meaning the Imperial Act has not been repealed.
Now that the technicalities are out of the way... or maybe not there is still one more important aspect the general population may not be aware, that being that 'faceless men' run this nation.
The so called 'elected' leaders, meaning "We the people" did not elect, e.g. Mr. Daniel Michael Andrews as a premier of Victoria, nor the current puppet Mr. Benjamin Alan Carroll, but rather the 'faceless men' put the clowns in a 'Punch & Judy' clown show on display.
So here's what Dave Hughes had to say about the hit and run driver which Victoria Police support:
SO, Google censors our posts on YouTube and Google Reviews on corporations.
Let us know in the comments if you cannot see this response:
The colony's police forces are corrupt, which is a matter of fact and not speculation.
Quite simply put MANY motorists get deceived by police either on the road or in the courtroom.
In the courtroom police also have the support of magistrates and/or even judges.
See explanation by Benny Brown in his approx 20min video:
You can cross reference what Benny says in this clip for the state you live in.
EDIT:
Wed 26 August 2026.
It has been noticed today, that the video was removed from YouTube.
In fact ALL of 'Benny Brown''s content has been removed:
Right now the federal (or feral, as we like to call it) government is advertising for the people to participate in an action in business/commerce/trade called the Census.
The excuse is that it needs to know certain things about you, but in reality, this is false and/or misleading information as they already have all this information through something called ‘surveillance capitalism’, from your electronic devices where they 'just' need you to confirm it.
If the government is advertising for you (the general population) to do something, you should realise it’s dodgy.
The most important aspect about this action is that a fundamental question needs to be asked:
The short answer is no, but that should come as no surprise or shock, as many actions by state or federal governments in this colony are not lawful, where they may be ‘legal’ but not necessarily lawful.
Remember a previous time when they sold your data and YOU (the stakeholder) received zero financial compensation?
Well they’re going to do it again.
At the end of the business day, the Census is another farce the authoritarian state wants you to participate in.
See other articles on this topic:
MANY people get it wrong what this land mass called Australia is factually at law.
If your so called 'legal representative' has got it wrong, maybe you need another one?
It may be seen as an island or even a continent, but that’s really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Some may call it a republic of the CCP (Chinese ‘Commie’ Party) according to the actions of a state so called ‘leader’ (or rather premier puppet, who runs over under aged persons AND gets away with it, with the help of corrupt police, oopsie, that’s another topic for another article) by the name of Daniel Michael Andrews.
It can be seen as a fascist state that would make Mussolini (and his mate, Adolf) proud.
It’s part of the top tier of global surveillance that being the Five Eyes (FVEY) ‘Anglosphere’ network, where the Five Eyes ‘Anglosphere’ does not answer to the known laws of its own countries, as exposed by Edward Snowden.
Over decades, Australian law makers have put in law, say for example at 2am or during major sporting events that that turned the nation into a totalitarian state, where realistically democracy has been thrown under a bus, or more politely put; into a museum in Canberra (MOAD), where things of the past, that are no longer current reside, like dinosaur bones and fossils, etc.
So let’s get into the ‘meat and potatoes’ of this story, where at law Australia is a colony, albeit a self-governing one, as seen in paragraph 8 of the second page of the Constitution.
See excerpt below:
From 1 July 2026, Australia’s AML/CTF regime expands and the people you trust with some of your most private affairs may now have new reporting obligations.
Lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, conveyancers and other professionals may be required to report suspicious matters to AUSTRAC. And because of the tipping off rules, they may not be allowed to tell you if they have done so.
This video explains what is changing, why it matters, and why this is not just a boring compliance update. It goes to something much deeper: trust, legal privilege, professional obligations, and the way power expands quietly through paperwork.
The key issue is not whether the stated purpose is serious. Money laundering, organised crime and terrorism financing are real problems. The issue is what happens when the system designed to catch serious criminals is built into ordinary professional relationships.
Because a dragnet does not only catch the people it was aimed at.
This is general legal information and commentary only. It is not personal legal advice. If you are concerned about your own situation, speak to a lawyer or qualified professional before the changes come into effect.
See explanation by JamesGlissanOfficial within his short video of the title:
Lawyers Will Be FORCED to Report You Starting Tomorrow:
Australia is still a [penal] colony, ruled by the colonialists.
It's basically Alcatraz v2, where you still can leave today if you desire so.
Let's start off with what Australia is not.
Australia is not a "Lucky Country", sorry Donald Horne, it's factually still a (self governing) colony where it won't take long to find that in the Constitution.
It may have been 'lucky' at one stage where it was "run mainly by second-rate people", but for quite a while now, it is deliberately 'mismanaged' by total scum in office that are also destroying Australian people's quality of life, more on that for another article.
Also, Australia has become authoritarian state with elements of a totalitarian régime.
It also has other elements such as fascism, oligarchy and nepotism just to spice things up a little.
It's truly a 'Money for Mates' paradise.
SO, who's been running Australia for a while?
See half an hour video by OnePath Network of the title: Israel Is Running Australia and No One Is Talking About It
The signs are in every state, e.g. Victoria:
Australia has become an absolute shithole now, where this is as a result of a few decades of actions by both federal & state Liberal and Labor 'governments'.
Quite simply put the fascists in control HATE the Australian public, taxpayers, voters or constituents.
Stagflation is the order of the business years.
So what does the government do?
It imports 500,000 Indian nationals alone into the colony per year (for 10 years) to falsely prop up the 'economy'.
Aussies are going to be screwed with a 'government' created recession.
In reality the people in charge must be razed to the ground and a new 'administration' installed, in a similar manner to Israel's oops Frump's new regime change in 'Eye'ran.
See Michael Cowan's, Australia Is Facing Something Far Worse Than A Rcession video below:
Opinion:
It is not recommended to 'invest' within the shores of Australia, where it's better to do business elsewhere, for greater returns.
The people in charge have truly screwed to (good) people of Australia over!
See also:
AS time goes on the (penal) colony's governments make it harder and harder for the general population to live peacefully.
Make no mistake about it, Australia is not a democracy but rather a fascist state, just to name one aspect of it.
See 6 minute video by Punter's Politics:
“England, in what is now Britain, wanted more land overseas where it could build new communities, known as colonies.
These colonies would provide England with valuable materials, like metals, sugar and tobacco, which they could also sell to other countries.”
The purpose of expanding an empire is therefore to enrich and empower the empire by extracting labour, natural resources to sell to other countries. In a fanciful, modern world, a reigning empire would not need to permanently occupy or colonise other countries to enrich itself, the empire would expand its power by;
1. Inserting the worlds most market dominate and disruptive companies within pre-existing colonies, extracting the most value from those colonies and paying the least taxes in those colonies.
2. Ensuring that a colonies most valued corporations are majority owned and controlled by the empire.
3. Buying companies and strategic assets in the colonies they want to extract value from.
4. Funding the media in the colonies they want to influence and extract value from. Once a colonies media is influenced by the empire, the media can then propagandise the public to manufacture consent for government policies that enrich the empire.
5. Fabricating propaganda to justify bombing existing colonies and toppling democratically elected leaders of those colonies. The empire would then plant empire friendly leaders and station themselves in these colonies for as long as it took, to; build military bases, extract valuable natural resources, and sell over priced military equipment and other contracts to colluding colonies.
For an empire to succeed under these conditions it would need to rely on the following;
1. That a colonies ruler(s), values money, public opinion and political tenure / power and therefore can be influenced by money, public opinion and positive media coverage to increase their political tenure.
2. That media proprietors and shareholders value money and therefore can be influenced by it. If media proprietors can be influenced by money, political narratives can be influenced by money.
3. That a society is generally predisposed to revering authorities, group-think, convenience, comfort and safety and therefore can be influenced by authorities, popular opinion, repeated narratives and political initiatives that allegedly promise more convenience, comfort and safety for the colonies inhabitants.
What a crazy and fanciful idea. Who would ever believe it?
Today, Australia is STILL a colony therefore under 'colonial' rule which is not good for the people.
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Pen was put to paper that Australia is run "mainly by second rate people" and that was in the mid 1960's.
Well, legally it's still a colony, but that topic is beyond the scope of this article.
Nowadays it's worse, it's run by people that are not fit to run ANY kind of business, let alone a nation, period.
'National Security' is not just about military prowess but also infrastructure and resources fall under this category.
The fact that the Australian authorities have allowed the resource called fuel to (allegedly) run dry is a 'failure of government' where realistically there should be an inquiry into this with real world consequences where people MUST lose their cushy jobs.
BUT in reality this will never happen, as the nation is run by a 'cartel' where the courts are part if this as well.
Whenever Royal Commissions or inquiries are held there is no remedy for the serfs/plebs/commoners.
They're always the ones that pay.
In this example, with the highlighted cost of 91 unleaded at $3.12 per litre, corporations are racketeering the people with zero 'remedy' in sight from the authorities.
That's life in a totalitarian (penal) colony called Australia!
Unfortunately for the 'good people' of Australia, the colony's police forces are rife with corruption.
The police literally cannot be trusted in any 'alleged' criminal matter.
In court they lie, tamper with evidence, destroy evidence and even tamper with witnesses and/or produce false witnesses with full support of the Anglo-Masonic setup legal system.
After all, the brethren look after each other.
Miscarriage of justice occurs in every single courtroom across the land, to the detriment of society as a whole, where the victims of the justice business are deliberately left without a remedy.
Keep in mind that the old-adage "the system is broken" is a false one, as the reality is that the system is functioning perfectly, the way it was designed to.
Corruption has increased over the years, but the authorities would have you believe there is less.
Here is one story that the public news media are allowed to inform the general population of, the one that the colony's original corrupt police force could no longer hide.
She saw too much. Then they found $20,000 in her car. What happened next would spark Australia’s biggest police corruption inquiry.
When former detective Deborah Locke joined the NSW police force in 1984 as part of the last class to graduate from the Redfern Academy female officers were, in her words, “lower than a police dog.”
“They used to make us wear these big, baggy culottes – [pants that were like] big long skirts,” she recalls of the bizarre uniform choices made on behalf of police women in the eighties on this week’s episode of I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin.
“I remember once jumping a wooden fence chasing a bloke who was doing a break-and-enter, and I’ve jumped over the fence and my big baggy culottes have come over and hooked over the top of the wooden paling fence, and I’m hung up and I am just hanging on the fence, waiting for someone to come.”
Yet little did Locke know that her outfit would end up being the least of her concerns during her time on the force.
The former officer turned whistleblower after witnessing first-hand the corruption that was rampant in the NSW police force during the eighties, a move that would leave her in fear for her life, a pariah in the force and the catalyst for the infamous Wood Royal Commission into police corruption.
‘They’re going to kill us’
The journey from ‘one of the boys’ to whistleblower unfolded over several years. After beginning her career in North Sydney, Locke eventually took a role within the Gaming Squad in the late eighties, at a time when she was heavily in the grips of alcoholism, something that made her male colleagues view her as a ‘drinking buddy’, on the many trips to bars and pubs the squad would partake in as part of its questionable methods.
Yet it was here that the extent of the corruption became apparent.
Cash bribes were commonplace between illegal gambling providers and police, and Locke regularly witnessed police tipping off providers before a raid in exchange for payment.
“Every time we did a raid they knew we were coming,” she tells Jubelin, “the cops, there were cops taking quids.”
“One time we went and [the illegal gaming crew] had a film crew and they’re videoing us. They had a big welcome sign waiting for us, they knew we were coming.”
But the point of no return came when $20,000 was discovered in the boot of Locke’s surveillance car. She’d been in Bathurst on a two-week study block, as part of a course she had enrolled in to advance her career, and when she returned she discovered the money had come from an illegal bookie who’d bribed members of her squad. Her boss, who was not involved in the corruption, had discovered the bribe, and had made the extraordinary decision to arrest the officers involved through the Highway Patrol.
“The next day, I rock into work and everyone’s just traumatised,” Locke, who was part of the small surveillance team now dubbed ‘dogs’, recalls. “Everyone’s rocking. And the next thing you know, people are drawing pictures. They’re going to kill us.”
“It was dangerous, we were all scared,” Locke continues. “And it was a horrible situation. It was just ridiculous. Even though I wasn’t even there or part of it, I was just tarred with the same brush – it was my car, and so I’m in on it.”
Locke was granted an overnight transfer to the Parramatta detectives unit, in order to be protected.
“By the time I got to Parramatta though, they already knew who I was, what had happened,” she says.
“And I was classified as a dog and a whistleblower.”
‘I’m going to go jail with these guys’
At Parramatta, Locke continued to witness corruption.
“If the gaming squad was like a circus, Parramatta was a whole different ball game,” she says, where detectives would have frequent contact with Roger Rogerson, a disgraced former cop who had already been dismissed from the force. Locke recalls Rogerson would “hold court” in Chinese restaurants, associating with major gangsters and being fawned over by police officers keen to win his favour.
It was Lenny MacPherson, one of Sydney’s most notorious gangsters in the eighties, that eventually triggered Locke’s whistleblowing. While drinking with senior officers and underworld figures at a Parramatta hotel, Locke was pulled aside and asked to perform a ‘favour’: obtain a gun license for MacPherson’s second wife.
The scheme was as bizarre as it was corrupt. Her superiors wanted her to go to Gladesville police station, present the application, and effectively pretend to be MacPherson’s wife.
Despite being offered increasing amounts of money to comply, Locke refused the bribe.
However, in the process of handling the paperwork, she realised she was trapped. “I was hanging on to the piece of paper,” she says, “so the fingerprints are on it.”
Ultimately, it was a literal interpretation of the police code of conduct that led to Locke becoming an official whistleblower.
“It’s probably my autism,” she explains, “I’d read the policies and procedures and it said, if you saw corruption and you didn’t say anything or do anything, you would also be guilty of that offence. And the stuff I saw going down, I was worried. I took it literally. I thought: ‘I’m going to go to jail with these guys.’
Whistleblowing, death threats and a royal commission
When Locke first went to then soon-to-be commissioner Tony Lauer to report the corruption, she says she was met with “disgust”.
“He said, ‘you don’t know what a detective is, you’re a whistleblower’ and I’d never heard that term,” she says. “I got up my courage and I bravely said to him ‘what’s a whistleblower?’ He looked at me with disgust and said, ‘you know, that’s cops who are dobbing in cops’.”
At Parramatta, the atmosphere turned lethal. Officers openly discussed her “disappearing,” and Locke lived in constant fear for her life.
“There was a copper that was going to speak out against the abortion squad in the seventies,” she says, “and he got shot sitting on the toilet. And I got told a few times that was gonna happen to me.”
The path to systemic change finally opened through independent MP John Hatton, a long-time crusader against the ‘boys’ club’. Locke became the only officer in the state with the backbone to sign statutory declarations alleging current corruption.
Her lone statutory declaration was enough for Hatton to set things in motion, and eventually the Wood Royal Commission into police corruption, which shattered the bubble of police impunity. It exposed a widespread culture of bribery, drug trafficking, and protecting criminals.
While many corrupt officers were granted amnesty to resign, the Commission’s findings fundamentally changed Australian policing by introducing rigorous accountability and oversight.
The downfall of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara
While Roger Rogerson had previously been acquitted of the attempted murder of whistleblower Michael Drury, he would eventually face justice in 2014, when he and Glen MacNamara – who had previously made a name for himself as a ‘clean’ cop – were convicted of the murder of Jamie Gao.
Locke – who had formerly posed with MacNamara at the launch of his own ‘anti-corruption’ book, was especially outraged by his involvement.
“They said, look, he’s doing a book, come and support him … We’ve got a photo in the paper, you know, his arm around me,” she says.
Years later, Locke watched the downfall of the men who had once operated in the shadows. “I used to go down and watch them at court, and I’d wave, ‘hi Glen, hi Roger,’ and they’d just look at me. He had the gunpowder all over him and it was like a video in court,” Locke explains, describing how surveillance footage captured the pair drinking beers and stepping over Gao’s body.
“I just felt so good to see Roger in the dock, you know? He was glaring at me, like ‘that b***h!’”
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Warning: This story contains references to sexual content, self-harm, and disordered eating.
Australians will need to prove they are over the age of 18 when accessing pornographic websites from 9 March 2026, under new industry codes registered Tuesday by the eSafety Commissioner.
Services hosting online porn must provide “appropriate age assurance measures” when the codes take effect in six months’ time, or face potential civil penalties from the regulator in the millions of dollars.
Similar age assurance technologies will be used by platforms to prevent under-16s from accessing social media under the government’s forthcoming ban in December, and to check a user’s age when they are logged into a search engine from later that same month.
Stricter rules on accessing online pornography have been floated by governments for several years, but age assurance technologies were not previously considered accurate enough by lawmakers and regulators.
Such technologies can include age verification systems, which typically rely on government documents or ID; age estimation systems, which use biometrics; and age inference systems, which use online activity or account data to infer a person’s age.
The federal government commissioned a trial of such technologies in 2024, which found age assurance could be done effectively in Australia despite no solution being infallible and some systems raising privacy and data retention concerns.
The new industry codes required service providers to not use or share Australians’ personal information in a way which would breach privacy laws, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.
“In determining appropriate age assurance measures to take under any code, services are also required to consider if those measures are compliant with privacy laws and whether the impact on user privacy is proportionate to the safety objectives,” she added.
Any company covered by the new codes “must also take appropriate steps to test and monitor the effectiveness of its age assurance and access control measures over time", according to the new rules.
Age checks to access online porn have already been implemented for sites accessed in the United Kingdom, in some European Union nations, and in many jurisdictions in the United States.
Canadian pornography giant Aylo — which runs major sites such as Pornhub and YouPorn — introduced age assurance methods in the UK in July to comply with new online safety laws in that country, including “email-based age estimation, credit card age checks, mobile network operator age checks and open banking, and, as of August 5, Google Wallet”, according to the company.
However, some UK residents have used Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and facial recognition tricks to get around the new age checks.
The six new codes registered by Australia's eSafety Commissioner were co-developed with industry organisations and aimed to protect children from exposure to a range of “lawful but awful” content, including pornography, self-harm, and high-impact violence, Inman Grant said.
Development of the codes began in July 2024 and involved several industry groups: the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA), the Communications Alliance, the Consumer Electronic Suppliers Association, Digital Industry Group Inc. (DIGI), and the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA).
Inman Grant said her office would be responsible for enforcing the codes “to protect children from accidental exposure to content they are not cognitively ready to process and certainly cannot ‘unsee’”.
“We know this is already happening to kids from our own research, with one in three young people telling us that their first encounter with pornography was before the age of 13,” she said.
“And this exposure was ‘frequent, accidental, unavoidable and unwelcome’, with many describing this exposure as being disturbing and ‘in your face’."
Age checks have already been implemented for pornographic sites accessed in the UK, some EU countries, and many US states. Image: Shutterstock
DIGI, which counts the likes of Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, TikTok, and Twitch among its members, said the new codes were “a major milestone in creating a safer online environment for all Australians”.
"The registration of the codes shows what can be achieved when industry and government work together on safeguarding the community against online harms,” said Dr Jennifer Duxbury, DIGI’s director of policy, regulatory affairs, and research.
"It's vital the rules that apply to the online world keep pace with changes in the threat landscape.”
Australia's adult entertainment association Eros was contacted for comment.
To prevent children from accessing adult content on other platforms, the new codes would also apply to AI chatbots, app stores, hardware manufacturers, social media services, and other designated internet services, Inman Grant said.
“Under these new codes, app stores will have to make sure that apps are appropriately rated and that there are appropriate age assurance measures before permitting users to download or purchase apps rated as 18+,” she said.
The commissioner said she was concerned by “a recent proliferation” of unregulated AI companion chatbots — some of which have allegedly engaged in sexually explicit conversations with minors, or encouraged self-harm or disordered eating.
“As with other forms of online pornography, there is a danger that excessive, sexualised engagement with AI companions could interfere with children’s social and emotional development, setting up misguided or harmful beliefs and patterns that are damaging to individuals or relationships in real life,” Inman Grant said.
“We’ve also seen recent reports of where AI chatbots have allegedly encouraged suicidal ideation and self-harm in conversations with kids with tragic consequences.”
US company OpenAI recently pledged to make further improvements to its ChatGPT service following the death of a teenager who discussed much of his life with the popular AI chatbot.
Source: ia.acs.org.au