Pseudo-Cops Enforcing Bylaws Are Starting to Appear on Australian Streets
City of Melbourne council has embarked upon a law enforcement experiment that involves security guards carrying out policing functions that on-the-beat officers usually perform to plug an inner city gap that the state government is considered to be failing to,...
NSW Police Officer Who Punched Hannah Thomas Has Been Charged with Assault
A New South Wales police officer who punched lawyer and human rights activist Hannah Thomas in her right eye has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The senior officer struck Thomas in the face as she questioned his...
Luke Moore Secures Hatrick of Successfully Suing Police
Luke Brett Moore, law graduate and strip search activist, was awarded $450,000 in respect of a civil suit against the state of NSW for malicious prosecution on 12 September 2025, after NSW police constable Daniel Keneally, the son of former...
Pine Gap Protest Activists Face Court Over Highlighting US Base’s Role in Gaza Genocide
Peace activists Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker are set to appear in Alice Springs Local Court again on 23 and 24 September 2025, in relation to summary offences that they were slapped with in respect of their second direct...
Youth Crime: Prevention and Diversion Produce Better Outcomes than Punitive Measures
Australian federal, state and territory governments have in recent years passed a range of laws which take an increasingly punitive approach to youth crime - a populist approach which focuses on incarcerating troubled youths in detention centres rather than addressing...
Australia, Canada and UK Recognise Palestine as a State
On 21 September 2025, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom joined 151 of 193 member states of the United Nations in recognising Palestine as a sovereign state. And while the move is intended to pressure Israel into putting an end...
The Offence of Producing or Distributing Deepfake Porn Without Consent in NSW
The law is often playing catch-up when it comes to regulating emerging technologies, and taking action against their misuse. And according to Australian law-makers, the nefarious use of deepfake porn is an example of this. New legislation Following the lead...
The Offence of Indecently Interfering with a Body in New South Wales
Cindy’s Law is that which enables the conviction of a person for a sexual offence or an offence concerning conduct with a corpse without the need to establish whether the conduct occurred whilst the person was alive or deceased. The...
Upsurge in White Nationalism Signifies the Deep Divisions in Australian Society
The reemergence of the “Freedom movement” rallying on city streets twice over the last fortnight involved an outpouring of antiimmigration sentiment coming from the mainly white Australian crowd that had not been apparent during its initial mobilisations during the COVID...
Antisemitism Envoy’s Refusal to Criticise Neo-Nazis Reveals Her Role is a Ruse
The official version of events is that Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal has come up with a plan to prevent a crisis in Jewish prejudice in the public sphere. The truth on the ground is that arch-Zionist...
