Despite Judicial Criticism, NSW Government is Determined to Extend Youth Bail Refusal Law
During budget estimates on Wednesday, NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson put it to the NSW premier that his government’s decision to extend a 12 month temporary youth bail law targeting particular kids living in regional areas, 88 percent of whom...
Dutton Plans to Deport Noncitizens Over Past Antisemitic Conduct
“Dutton has been one of the strongest voices in our country on antisemitism, and he is not ashamed to say that he unequivocally supports Israel,” said Sky News Antisemitism Summit cohost Sharri Markson, as she was about to interview the...
The Antisemitism Summit’s Law-and-Order Action Plan Will Destroy Our Freedoms
The law-and-order action plan to combat the antisemitism that Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin laid out at the Sky News Antisemitism Summit, which took place on Gadigal land at Bondi Junction’s Central Synagogue last week, was...
New NSW Hate Crimes and Antiprotest Laws Are “Downright Dangerous to Our Democracy”
By last Friday, 21 February 2025, the NSW Minns government had passed a package of three law-and-order bills, responding to the “recent instances of antisemitic behaviour” that have comprised of multiple graffiti and arson attacks in the Greater Sydney region,...
Recent Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Highlight Surging Crisis
Two Aboriginal men have just died whilst being incarcerated at the Australian Capital Territory’s only adult prison over the space of just four days. And this devastating development that took place at the Alexander Maconochie Centre is made all the...
ASIO Chief Warns that All National Security Threats Are Set to Escalate
In delivering his sixth annual threat assessment on Wednesday 19 January 2025, ASIO director general Mike Burgess shifted the focus from “past and present threats” to those of the future, and in providing a national security outlook to 2030, he...
Rising Islamophobic Hate Crimes Are Hardly Being Acknowledged by Government
Following special envoy on Islamophobia Aftab Malik having called upon him to do so earlier that day, Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese condemned recent attacks upon two Muslim women at the Pacific Epping Shopping Centre in Naarm-Melbourne. The top minister...
Victoria Refuses to Prosecute King Charles for Genocide: Interview with Uncle Robbie Thorpe
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Melinda Richards recently issued her ruling on a judicial review of a Magistrates Court of Victoria December 2023 decision not to issue proceedings in respect of an attempted private prosecution against king Charles III by Krauatungalung...
Sydney’s LGBTIQA+ Community Is Demanding Cops Out of Mardi Gras
The Pride in Protest Mardi Gras Street rally 2025 gathered at Pride Square in Newtown prior to marching on Gadigal up King Street towards Camperdown’s City Park, where the annual Mardi Gras Fair Day festival was underway and as has...
“This Is Not Just About David”: Lawyer Eddie Lloyd on the Forthcoming McBride Appeal
Former Australian Defence Force lawyer David McBride is about to stand before the ACT Court of Appeal to challenge the legitimacy of his conviction on three counts relating to his having exposed confidential ADF information to the ABC, which revealed...
