Australia Needs First Nations Truth-Telling Not Hasbara Hiding Israel’s Colonial Crimes
On taking office, the Albanese government acknowledged need for broad First Nations reform. Labor held a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament, while Senator Lidia Thorpe led a campaign insisting truth-telling and treaty are the priority. However, the nation...
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NSW Government’s Blanket Protest Ban: A Massive Gifting Away of Our Basic Rights for Xmas
The Minns government has passed laws that provide for the imposition of blanket bans on public protest, in circumstances when NSW police has designated an incident terrorism-related under state law. These dissent silencing laws were rushed through NSW parliament this...
Wiradjuri Nation to Charge Compensation to Mining Interests, Explains Paul Towney
Proud Wiradjuri descendant Paul Towney earlier this year commenced his campaign to raise awareness about a 2024 Federal Court of Australia ruling that found native title rights had not been extinguished in respect of land grants issued in the early...
Minns’ Mammoth Rights-Eroding Christmas Bill Bonanza Explained
During the first of two additional sitting days of NSW parliament, NSW police minister Yasmin Cateley introduced a piece of omnibus legislation, covering gun control laws, restrictions on public protest and other measures to stamp out prejudice in public. These...
NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’
New South Wales police tactical operations officers rammed two cars carrying seven men on Dharug land at the intersection of George and Campbell streets in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Liverpool at around 4 pm on Thursday 18 December 2025....
The Criminal Offence of Murder in New South Wales
The first bullets fired by mass shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram rung out across Bondi Beach at about 6.47 pm on Sunday, 14 December 2025, which was when the NSW police was first called. The shooters had parked their car...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Government Passes Revised Police Powers to Move-On at Places of Worship The government passed the new laws after the Supreme Court struck down the...
Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency
The Bondi Beach massacre was an appalling hate crime targeting Sydney’s Jewish community. But the subsequent intermingling and implication of the local pro-Palestine/antigenocide protest movement in post-shooting public statements is an affront. Indeed, the psychotic father and son shooters appear...
Federal Antisemitism Plan Marks the Death Knell of the Public Sphere
Prime minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to impose antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism on the Australian public on 18 December 2025, has nothing to do with preventing another Bondi Beach massacre, and it has everything to do with...
There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws
In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily...
