NSW Government Uses Antisemitic Incidents to Toughen Hate Speech and Anti-Protest Laws
Amidst ongoing antisemitic attacks in Sydney, New South Wales premier Chris Minns announced on 19 January 2025 that his administration has come to the “difficult decision” to toughen NSW hate speech law and the anti-protest regime. But to claim that...
Knocking Albo Off His Perch: An Interview with Greens for Grayndler’s Hannah Thomas
Encompassing Sydney’s Inner West region, the federal seat of Grayndler is known for having some of the most progressive voters in NSW and right across the country. The seat of Grayndler has been held by current prime minister Anthony Albanese...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 January 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Judges Must Consider Whether Prison Terms Can Be Served as Intensive Correction Orders The High Court made clear that sentencing judges must consider whether any...
Envoy Calls for Specific Antisemitism Offences, Rather Than Laws That Protect All
“Condemnation is great and important but not sufficient. We need to see perpetrators of antisemitic incidents arrested, prosecuted and then penalties that fit the crime imposed,” said Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal this week. “And the prime minister said the...
Dan Duggan Appeals Attorney General’s Decision to Extradite Him to the US
Dan Duggan’s legal team has commenced proceedings with the Federal Court of Australia to appeal the recent Australian attorney general decision to extradite the father-of-six children to the United States over a secret 2017 US grand jury indictment that contains...
Federal Politician Calls for Tougher Laws to Combat NSW Youth Crime Wave That Does Not Exist
“Some of these older kids, they really need to be locked up, whether in juvenile detention centres or whatever,” said federal Nationals MP Kevin Hogan, whose NSW electoral seat of Page sits on the lands of the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr...
McBride Continues to Be the Only One Stewing in Prison Over Afghan War Crimes
Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride continues to be the only individual in prison with a connection to Australian war crimes allegedly perpetrated by this nation’s special forces (SAS) troops in Afghanistan over the course of Australia’s participation in the...
International Intervention in Gaza Is Necessary, Asserts Australian Peace Network
For the last three months, Israel has been conjuring Hell on Earth in northern Gaza. In October 2024, the apartheid state commenced a fresh offensive in the north of the 40-kilometre walled-in region, which it continues into the present. This...
UN Finds Australia Is Responsible and Owes Compensation for Rights Violations on Nauru
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has determined that in transferring 24 unaccompanied minors from the Global South, who were seeking asylum, to offshore detention in Nauru in 2014 was definitely in breach of the rights contained in the...
Trump’s Vision of Force, Provocation and Colonisation Represents a Global Threat
The Donald Trump who gave a speech on 7 January 2025 at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida ahead of his inauguration appeared a very different president-elect than the one taking office in 2017. And the current self-assurance the incoming head...
