Ganesh Sahathevan

 by Ganesh Sahathevan    The NSW Commissioner of Fines Administration in consultation with the NSW Police Commissioner will withdraw all remaining 23,539 Covid-19 penalty notices.   In late 2022 the Commissioner of Fines Administration exercised his statutory power to withdraw around 36,000 penalty notices in relation to four different Covid-19 related offences.  This was on the basis that limited information contained in some penalty notices made it difficult for fine recipients to understand the nature of the offence and did not comply with the specificity requirement of the Fines Act 1996. The remaining 23,539 penalty notices were not withdrawn as part of this decision as they were formulated differently, with a clearer explanation of the offences for which they were issued. This then brings us to the that other COVID fine, the hotel quarantine fine which  former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, her Police Chief Mick Fuller  administered which  was ...

 by Ganesh Sahathevan  In the recent Federal Court Australia decision in   Faruqi v Hanson   Mr Justice Angus Morkel Stewart (Stewart J)  found at [242]: I am comfortably satisfied that both groups of people in Australia that I have identified, being persons of colour who are migrants or of relatively recent migrant heritage and persons of colour who are Muslim, are reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to have been offended (ie profoundly and seriously), insulted, humiliated and intimidated by Senator (Pauline ) Hanson’s tweet. The case concerned   a tweet  that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson directed at  Deputy Greens leader Senator  Mehreen Faruqi. Mehreen is Pakistani Muslim who continues to advocate for Pakistan as a senator of the Senate, Parliament Of Australia.  Senator Hanson wrote in her tweet "piss off back to Pakistan" after Senator Faruqi commented on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. While Stewart J's has hand...