Category: Emergency Workers

Tougher Penalties in New South Wales to Protect Emergency Workers

New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet has pledged to introduce stricter penalties for those who assault frontline health and emergency workers, following an NSW Sentencing Council report recommendations. This will take the form of new offences which treat the assault of these workers separately from common assault, similar to the offences associated with assaulting…


First Responders Fight Chicago Vaccine Mandate

CHICAGO—Government control over people’s lives has spread like fire since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Scott Troogstad, a fire captain from Chicago. Small-business owners were deprived of their livelihoods, students couldn’t go to schools, people of faith were forbidden to pray at their churches. Yet it wasn’t his fight, not at the time….