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

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Knocking Albo Off His Perch: An Interview with Greens for Grayndler’s Hannah Thomas

The PM’s ‘disastrous’ performance has many looking for alternatives who care about the community rather than big business and currying favour with the US.

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NSW Government Uses Antisemitic Incidents to Toughen Hate Speech and Anti-Protest Laws

Incidents that are critical of Israel are being used by the state government to further curtail the fundamental civil liberties of us all.

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Protest the Invasion of Aboriginal Land This 26th of January: Interview with Dunghutti Activist Paul Silva

This year’s Invasion Day protest comes after a year of genocide in Gaza, drawing attention to the genocide upon which our own nation was founded.

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Peter Dutton’s Paternalistic Election Promises Hint at a Potential NT Intervention 2.0

Dutton’s promises of a cashless debt card and law-and-order rollout for Aboriginal communities sounds concerningly like paternalistic policies of the past.

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AFP Suggests Foreign Actors Are Paying Locals to Commit Antisemitic Crimes

“We are looking into whether overseas actors or individuals have paid local criminals in Australia to carry out some of these crimes in our suburbs”.

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Australia’s Criminal Justice Crackdown on Kids Recognised in Global Report

Human Rights Watch has expressed concerns about the removal of child rights in the criminal justice system, which has contributed to a spike in child incarceration.

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How Trump’s New Policies Will Harm Australia — and the World

Despite our nation pandering to the US to the extent of relinquishing military sovereignty, we are unlikely to escape the negative impact of its proposed policies.

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Trump’s Authoritarianism Has Already Reshaped Western Politics

The incumbent president’s focus on authoritarianism and isolationism, as well as corporate and self interest should be concerning to us all.

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