Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 February 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Chief Justice Identifies Multiple Threats to the Rule of Law in Australia The state’s top judge identified the rise of the far right, influence...
ATO Whistleblower Richard Boyle Exits Plea Negotiations, Refusing to Plead to Bogus Charges
Australian Taxation Office whistleblower Richard Boyle revealed in an open letter addressing Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus that he posted on X on Monday, 10 February 2025 which, amongst other things, advised the nation’s chief lawmaker that he was withdrawing...
Is it Islamophobic to Criticise Indonesia’s Occupation of West Papua?
The Indonesian government has been illegitimately occupying the land of the West Papuan people since a 1969 referendum. What’s occurring to the West Papuans under Indonesian occupation is often referred to as a slow-motion genocide, with an estimated half a...
NSW Government Antisemitic Hate Crime Bill Tabled in Parliament
The first piece of legislation introduced into NSW parliament for 2025 is a bill to counter rising hate crime that contains provisions that combat hate against people in general in respect of their religion or race, but it also has...
Readily Accepting Sexual Assault Complaints Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
Seven people have been arrested after a police investigation into alleged fraudulent compensation claims for historical sexual abuse in New South Wales institutions including schools and correctional facilities. The scheme is alleged to have involved a number of ‘claim farmers’...
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”...
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...
