This paper looks at the emergence of the canned fruit and vegetable industry in New South Wales, and at its progress in recent years. Introduction In March 2013 Windsor Farm closed its canning operations at Cowra, with the loss of 70 jobs. Apart from Billabong Produce’s relatively small tomato canning operations at Jerilderie, the only...

This paper examines recent cases of political corruption in New South Wales, in light of corruption offences and law reform in other Australian states and the United Kingdom. Introduction In recent years a number of high profile inquiries by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) have resulted in findings that persons in public office –...

Aim: The Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened in Kings Cross in May 2001. This paper examines whether there have been: (i) increases in the volume of robbery, theft and illicit drug offences in Kings Cross Local Area Command (LAC) up until December 2012 or; (ii) increases in the percentage of Kings Cross illicit drug...

Aim: To determine whether the NSW Forum Sentencing program is more effective than the conventional sentencing process in reducing recidivism. Method: Offenders referred to Forum Sentencing in 2011 were matched with offenders who were ‘eligible’ for Forum Sentencing but who were sentenced in a NSW Local Court where Forum Sentencing was not operating. These two...

This bulletin uses propensity score matching to compare reoffending rates between adults given a community service order (CSO) and those given bonds (both supervised and unsupervised) or a suspended sentence (both supervised and unsupervised).