DNA Profiling Is Key to Modern Criminal Investigation: Interview with DNA Expert Helen Roebuck
Prior to the widespread roll out and application of DNA testing techniques in law enforcement investigations in the 1990s, police detectives were reliant upon fingerprinting, the analysis of physical evidence and witness testimonies, which unlike DNA evidence, can lead to...
Escalating Neo-Nazis Demonstrations Rear Their Heads Again on 26 January 2025
Neo-Nazis of the National Socialist Network have continued their close-to-two-year-long practice of openly rallying as adherents of the Nazi doctrine on Australian streets. This time it was in Yerta-Adelaide on 26 January 2025, in an obvious attempt to heighten tensions...
First Nations Rally on Gadigal Asserts Aboriginal Sovereignty This 26th of January
Thousands upon thousands of First Nations peoples and their allies filled the city street that runs along unceded Gadigal land, known as Sydney’s Broadway on Sunday. On reaching their final destination, Isabel Coe Memorial Park, otherwise known as Camperdown’s Victoria...
Sovereignty Day Rally on Gadigal Land 26 January 2025: In Photos
A massive outpouring of over 10,000 First Nations people and their allies gathered on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney’s Belmore Park to protest the ongoing dispossession, denial of self-determination and genocide that’s been taking place on this continent in respect...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 20 to 26 January 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sentencing Judges Must Make Clear That Mitigating Factors Were Considered The judge was in error because he failed to expressly communicate that the defendant’s efforts...
Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Already Reshaped Western Politics
Over the last week, the newly incumbent Trump administration has both reshaped the domestic politics of the United States and also those of the western world, as his onslaught of authoritarian executive orders issued over his first days in office...
How Trump’s New Policies Will Harm Australia — and the World
Breaking records can sometimes be seen as innovative and exciting. However, in this case, Trump’s shattering of previously held number of executive actions initiated on the first day of his presidency is not thrilling or compelling for America’s future. Instead,...
Australia’s Criminal Justice Crackdown on Kids Recognised in Global Report
In its annual assessment of human rights practices in over 100 countries in 2024, Human Rights Watch drew attention to this nation’s reversals of the rights of children in its criminal justice system, which last year saw something of a...
AFP Suggests Foreign Actors Are Paying Locals to Commit Antisemitic Crimes
The insinuations linking the much-demonised local pro-Palestinian movement that formed in opposition to the Israeli state-perpetrated Gaza genocide to a spate of antisemitic attacks in NSW and Victoria appear to be dissipating, as AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw suggested on Tuesday...
Peter Dutton’s Paternalistic Election Promises Hint at a Potential NT Intervention 2.0
With a federal election looming, opposition leader Peter Dutton broke early from the starting blocks this month to deliver an assortment of racist dog whistling statements that began with his repeating his concerns in regard to Indigenous flags and ended...
