“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...
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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...
The Australian Defence Minister’s AI Bonanza Is All About US Sovereignty
Australian defence minister Richard Marles posted to Instagram on 2 September 2026, as he was jogging at Pier 39 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marles was there meeting with Silicon Valley “tech companies, with frontier companies, about AI”. Yet,...
Thorpe’s Legislating an End to Strip Searching Children and Shackling Birthing Women
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practises that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women during childbirth and the strip searching of children. And as these bills are undergoing the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 31 August to 6 September 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Defence Is Entitled to All Sufficiently Relevant Material, Including in Sexual Offence Cases The appeal court ordered police to produce materials sought under subpoena...
Leaked Footage Reveals NSW Police Intentionally Brutalised the Public at Herzog
Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops posted a clip online, which, having been anonymously supplied to it, went viral last weekend. The leaked footage involves a NSW police officer bragging about beating up a civilian, during the policing of the 9...
The NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial Is Being Expanded Before Any Official Assessment
The Minns government confirmed in a 27 August 2026 press release that it’s continuing with the New South Wales police crime-related drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in the NSW town of Moree for two more years, as well as looking...
“Another Site for Resistance”: Mparntwe for Falastin Activists on Their Pine Gap Blockade Prosecution
The Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested as part of the 9 October 2025 blockade of the road into US spy base Pine Gap are about to appear in court. Their direct action aimed at calling out the Pine Gap intel...
The Offence of Wounding with Intent to Cause Grievous Bodily Harm in NSW
A 15-year-old boy has been charged after an alleged knife attack in Sydney’s inner city left a 17-year-old boy with a severed hand. Emergency services were called to Redfern Oval at about 6pm on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, following reports...
