In Victoria it is an offence to fly a kite 'to the annoyance of any person', to harness your goat to your vehicle and drive it through a public place, and you can be jailed for cleaning up seabird or bat poo without a licence in Western Australia.
Under the Marketing of Potatoes Act 1946, it was illegal for anyone to sell, purchase, take delivery of and deliver more than 50kg of everybody's favourite tuber. Those provisions included carrying that amount in your vehicle unless you were a member of the Potato Corporation or an authorised agent of said Corporation.
𝗙𝗨𝗡 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬! It is illegal to dress up as Batman and Robin in Australia. Dressing up as the dynamic duo is the same as dressing up as police officers', as the pair is integral to law enforcement.
In Victoria, Australia, it is illegal to wear pink pants after noon on Sundays. It is FALSE. Although it was widely reported online, legal experts say this law probably doesn't exist.
The scarlet robin (Petroica boodang) is a common red-breasted Australasian robin in the passerine bird genus Petroica. The species is found on continental Australia and its offshore islands, including Tasmania.
The non-recognition of slavery in Australia is supported by the Slavery Abolition Act, 1833, which provides that “slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful”.
Owning and using a firearm is limited in Australia to people who have a genuine reason and self-protection does not constitute a genuine reason to possess, own or use a firearm. Secondly, the Australian system requires both the licensing of individual shooters and the registration of each firearm.
Australia has strict biosecurity controls to help minimise the risk of pests and diseases entering the country.
Keep in mind that although there aren't any laws against eating while driving, if it prevents you from concentrating and having full control of your vehicle you could be fined. The term for this is 'driver distraction' and is covered broadly in each Australian state.
There's no federal law against living in your car, but states and councils are able to legislate around the issue. In New South Wales, you may sleep in your car as long as you're not breaching any parking laws, which sometimes are in place to prevent people from living in cars for extended periods of time.
Australia. Australia previously had Part VII of the Crimes Act 1914 (Commonwealth), entitled Official Secrets and Unlawful Soundings, since repealed and replaced with Part 5.6 – Secrecy of Information of the Criminal Code Act (1995).
This fact sheet introduces the different types of law that govern Australia – statute law made by parliament, delegated law made by government and common law made by courts.
The Constitution of Australia has a special status—it cannot be changed in the same way as other laws can be changed and it is a supreme law, that is, it overrides other laws.
One of the most prevalent crimes in Australia is sexual assault, with the largest proportion of victims being female.
(1) An offence is a serious offence if it is: (a) a murder, or an offence of a kind equivalent to murder; or (b) a kidnapping, or an offence of a kind equivalent to kidnapping; or (c) an offence against Division 307 of the Criminal Code; or (d) an offence constituted by conduct involving an act or acts of terrorism; or ...
Domestic violence is noted as being one of the most underreported categories of crime globally. Domestic violence under-reporting is driven by a number of complex factors from financial or familial dependence to normalisation of violence and self-blaming.
Australia, like many countries, is a signatory to 7 core International Human Rights Treaties, which include the right to freedom from slavery and forced labour; under article 8 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Slavery has been illegal in the (former) British Empire since the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade of 1807, and certainly since 1833. Slavery practices emerged in Australia in the 19th century and in some places endured until the 1950s.
The Australian regime defines modern slavery to incorporate conduct that would constitute an offence under existing human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like offence provisions set out in Divisions 270 and 271 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code.
There has long been a tradition of hunting and trapping small birds on the continent so robins have remained fearful of humans whereas in Britain robins have co-existed with humans for many years and learned that there is no threat in being close to us.
Robins are widespread and their population is thought to be stable. They are threatened by harsh winters, however, losing up to 10% of their body weight during just one freezing winter night.