The Criminal Offence of Receiving or Disposing of Goods Stolen Outside NSW
New South Wales police have charged a 22-year-old man with several crimes, including receiving stolen goods from outside of NSW, following a police pursuit on Gomeroi land, which commenced when officers attempted to stop a Toyota utility in the NSW...
AFP Commissioner Blames People Who Use Drugs for Prohibition Policing Failures
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett has hit out at people who use illicit drugs, stating that all illicit drug users are ‘contributing to deadly street violence and expanding criminal networks. These comments have been widely reported on mainstream commercial media, most...
Watch the Cops Rallies at Downing Centre Court Over Police Violence and Increased Surveillance
Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops staged a protest on Gadigal land outside Sydney’s Downing Centre Court on Sunday, in respect of a range of aberrant ways in which the New South Wales Police Force has been enforcing the law. And...
New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts
New South Wales parliament is reconvening for its spring session on Tuesday, 15 September 2026, and before it is the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026, which the NSW Council for Civil Liberties has warned...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 September 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Appeal Court Orders Judge to Remove Herself from Three Criminal Cases The DPP successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to continue presiding over the cases...
Third Tranche of NSW Organised Crime Laws Are Set to Further Erode the Rights of All
The Minns government has announced its third suite of organised crime laws this year. This came as the 52nd gangland shooting in Greater Sydney over 2026 transpired, and whilst this uptick in crime is spurring this series of legislative reform...
The Baby Premier and the Spy Boss Who Warned of Antisemitism
Towards the end of last week, New South Wales premier Chris Minns and ASIO director general Mike Burgess appeared separately in The Australian in an apparent attempt to rewrite history around significant events that have been spurred locally by the...
“Railroading Community Opposition”: Greens MLC Abigail Boyd on the Emerging Datacentre Crisis
There is a datacentre crisis emerging in this state, as overseas big tech interests are racing down under to build facilities to store foreign owned data. However, most Australians haven’t got a clue about why this is happening and have...
Australian Billionaires Continue to Rake It In, as Their Influence Over Politics Grows
Much of the coverage of increasingly influential billionaires since the 2025 second coming of the US Trump administration has involved a focus on the US kind. However, a recent Oxfam report reveals that just like US billionaires, those in Australia...
The Offence of Common Assault in NSW
Two women have been charged with common assault and using offensive language after they allegedly attacked a man near a bus stop on Gadigal land in the Sydney CBD. Officers attached to the Sydney City Police Area Command received a...
