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,...
Arrest of ‘North Shore Rapist’ Leads to Calls for Better Community Protection
The recent arrest of Graham James Kay - the man dubbed the media as ‘the North Shore rapist’ – over allegations of sexual touching has caused outrage on social media, with many asking how the notorious sex offender could be...
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...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 17 to 23 February 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: An Evaluation of the NSW Drug Supply Prohibition Order Pilot Scheme A report has been published into a program that empowers police to conduct warrantless...
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...
New South Wales to Finally Trial Pill Testing
The first festival to participate in a New South Wales pill testing trial has been announced, following recommendations stemming from the state’s drug summit. The Yours and Owls festival in Wollongong this spring will be the first festival in New...
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...
‘Trumpet of the Patriots’: Australian Politicians Seek to Capitalise on Trump’s Success
As expected, Australian politicians are seeking to emulate and capitalise on the success of Donald Trump in the United States – who secured a second term as President on the back of populist, nationalist rhetoric focused on targeting, belittling and...
