All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population
During a 24 November 2025 US Department of State presser, an official told the foreign press that the Trump administration has ordered its embassies in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Canada to monitor local migrants in respect of crime. And...
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Victoria Police Can Now Randomly Search Anyone in the Melbourne CBD
Victoria police recently announced that the Naarm-Melbourne CBD has been declared a designated area from 30 November 2025 until 29 May 2026, which means police officers and protective services officers can search civilians without reasonable grounds for suspicion over that...
Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country
Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine was out on Country last month, which is located in northeastern so-called South Australia - north of the town of Ceduna - when she got word that Southern Launch, the private space company that runs...
High Court Rules that Evidence Derived from ANOM Is Admissible
The High Court of Australia has delivered a landmark decision which makes clear that evidence covertly derived by way of software installed by government authorities into encrypted phones is admissible despite the absence of a surveillance device warrant. The judgment...
Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty...
Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
White Australian nationalists are not new. What is, however, are the monthly nationwide far right protests occurring since August, which spout antiimmigration rhetoric and are linked to rising white supremacism in the UK and in the US, where a fascistic...
The Crime of Genocide Is Continuing in Gaza Despite the Ceasefire
Thousands of Sydneysiders turned up on Gadigal land in Hyde Park North in the CBD last Sunday afternoon, 7 December 2025, not only to oppose the Israeli-perpetrated genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza, but to further raise awareness to...
The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia
New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: DNA Evidence Ruled Inadmissible as “Investigator Mediated Contamination” Was Possible The court found that a DNA sample found in a firearm case was inadmissible as...
Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death
The 27 November 2025 marked six months since Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, had his life cut short by two plainclothes police officers in Alice Springs Coles, and while the internal Northern Territory police investigation brief of...
