The Thorpe-Payman Genocide Bills Would Ensure No Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Recent days have seen major breakthroughs in reporting on evidence of Australian-made weapons parts and entire locally produced weapons systems, continuing to end up in Israeli military hands during a genocide, via aboveboard, yet opaque, export arrangements, which provide further...
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The Victoria Police Killing of Homeless Somali Man: Justified or Excessive Force?
Two Victoria police officers shot dead Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed at around 9 pm on Thursday 17 April 2025, after being called out to the corner of Paisly and Albert streets in the Naarm-Melbourne suburb of Footscray, due to a...
As Global Conflicts Escalate, Lest We Remember the Futility of the ANZAC Myth
On 25 April 2025, Australia shall pause for its annual ANZAC Day public holiday, and the solemn phrase “lest we forget” will be repeatedly uttered, as it’s supposed to invoke a duty to honour and remember Australian soldiers who lost...
Statistics Suggest Police Are Solving More Crimes Than Ever Before
A recent report by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has the mainstream media asserting that criminal offences are being ‘solved’ at higher rates than ever before in New South Wales. But while these sources...
This Election the Climate Crisis Is a Major Party Nonissue: Interview with Rising Tide’s Alexa Stuart
“Mr Albanese, you say you care about young people, and yet, since getting elected your government has approved 33 new coal and gas projects,” 21-year-old Alexa Stuart called out to the prime minister, whilst he was hosting a 7th April...
Dutton’s Determination to Host Netanyahu Reveals His Trumpian Agenda Is Still On
When The Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly quizzed Liberal opposition leader Peter Dutton during a 16 April 2025 interview, on whether a future Coalition government would “ignore the prescription from the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he should be arrested” and...
Enshrining Prisoners’ Rights in Law: Interview with Social Justice Academic Gerry Georgatos
Tuesday the 15th of April 2025 marked the 34th anniversary since the tabling of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which delivered 339 recommendations, many of which have never been actioned, and this has resulted in no allaying...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 14 to 20 April 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Greens Defence Policy Is About Peace and Independence: Interview with Senator Shoebridge While major parties propose to continue surrendering military sovereignty to the US,...
The Duopoly Crucifies Whistleblowers: A Robust Post-Election Crossbench Would Protect Them
Then shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus told the Canberra Times in October 2021 that he understood the 2013 legislation that he produced to protect public service whistleblowers, during an earlier stint as the nation’s chief lawmaker, needed improving, and if...
NSW Labor Is Demolishing Lismore Homes and Evicting Squatters During a Housing Crisis
Housing advocates gathered on Bundjalung land in Lismore on 16 April 2025 to protest the ongoing demolition of homes, some built with 100-year-old timber, that were bought by the state, as part of the October 2022-announced NSW Resilient Homes buyback...
