NSW Government Expands Antiprotest Laws to Cover Places of Worship
The Minns government has kicked off the 2025 NSW parliamentary term with the introduction of new antiprotest laws to prohibit demonstrations from taking place outside of places of worship. And these laws are being delivered in response to rising “antisemitic”...
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The Unique Dynamics of Drinking Cultures Among Lawyers: Interview with Dr Nyssa Ferguson
If one walks through the central business district in any major Australian city after 5 pm on a Thursday, one notes that the area’s drinking establishments are packed with office workers, knocking back a few alcoholic drinks with colleagues, discussing...
Australian Taxpayers Fork Out $800 Million to Win the Favour of Trump
Australian deputy PM and defence minister Richard Marles met with US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth last Friday at the Pentagon in the US state of Virginia, which marked the first such meeting Hegseth has had with a foreign counterpart,...
New Federal Hate Crime Offences and Penalties in Australia
The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2025 (Cth) was passed by both houses of the federal parliament on 6 February 2025 and will soon come into force across Australia. The Bill amends the Criminal Code Act (Cth) (‘the Act’)...
NSW Government Intent on Incarcerating Rather Than Diverting Troubled Youths
“We’ve got more to do, and we are looking at legislative change,” NSW premier Chris Minns told reporters on Gomeroi Country in the northern NSW town of Moree last Friday. The NSW Labor leader was referring to changing the law...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 3 to 9 February 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Sex Crime Squad Detective Imprisoned for Sexual Offences The detective was sent to prison for committing sexual offences against a teenage victim of sexual...
US President Attempts to Bully International Criminal Court into Submission
United States president Donald Trump is marketing his executive order to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as necessary in the defence of its ally, Israel. The move, made just days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit...
New Federal Hate Speech Offences and Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentences Enacted
The Albanese government’s hate crimes bill had always been divisive because of the way it was wielded by government during heated public debate about the Gaza genocide. Yet the now passed laws that the attorney general said last year were...
PM Says, ‘No Comment”, as Wanted War Criminal and Convicted Felon Spruik Genocide
Convicted felon US president Donald Trump and internationally wanted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, stood before reporters during a 4 February White House press conference, which saw these two fugitives conspiring to escalate the genocide of the Palestinians in...
Antisemitism-Specific Offence and Other Hate Crime Laws Are Coming to NSW
Ahead of 2025’s first sitting day of New South Wales parliament on 11 January, the state government announced its “tougher laws against antisemitism and hatred in NSW” package, which premier Minns has spruiked as a response to increasing acts of...
