“That Sort of Stepping Up”: Gaza Flotilla Participant Juliet Lamont on Centring Palestinian Lives
Documentary filmmaker Juliet Lamont is one brave soul. After having risked it all sailing amongst the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza in October 2025 and then being kidnapped off the high seas by the Israeli military...
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No Immutable Force: Anticop Founder Tom Raue on the Modern Police Force
Right now, there is a blanket ban on “authorised” protests across three policing districts covering much of Greater Sydney. New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed on 6 January 2026, that the “public assembly restriction declaration” imposed on Christmas...
The Hasbara Royal Commission and the Erasure of Palestinian Australians
The establishment of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is likely the most significant threat to forging truth in this nation, with the last hope to resist this onslaught of hasbara being a respected former High Court Justice,...
The Offence of Engaging in Acts of Child Prostitution in New South Wales
Most people in New South Wales would recognise Jeffrey Epstein and associate the deceased United States citizen with being a child sex offender, involved in a smorgasbord of criminal offences. Yet, the multimillionaire financier was only ever convicted on two...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 January 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Severity Appeal Against Drug Importation Succeeds as Judge Failed to Properly Sentence The judge failed to properly implement ‘instinctive synthesis’ during the sentencing process. Click...
NSW Police Fatally Shoot Yet Another Civilian During a Mental Health Callout
New South Wales police shot and killed a 49-year-old man on Darkinjung land in the state’s Central Coast town of Springfield at 3.30 pm on Wednesday, 7 January 2026, after a mental health check turned into a siege situation. This...
Legal Challenge Launched Against Draconian Blanket Ban on Protests
On the day following New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon having extended the first ever blanket ban on so-called authorised protests in parts of Greater Sydney, three local social justice organisations lodged a legal challenge to the protest prohibition...
NSW Government’s Proposal to Criminalise the Public Display of Political Slogans Is Concerning
A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into prohibiting slogans that incite hatred is accepting public submissions until Monday, 12 January 2026. This inquiry is further continuing the Minns government’s yearlong addiction to kneejerk legislating primarily to respond to pro-Palestine/anti-Gaza genocide...
Sydney Man Dies After Being Pepper Sprayed by Police
A man has died in hospital, after being sprayed in the face with OC (oleoresin capsicum) or pepper spray as New South Wales police officers attempted to arrest him in relation to a domestic violence callout. The 52-year-old man suffered...
The Ban on “Authorised” Protest and Suppression of Political Dissent Continues in NSW
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon announced on Tuesday, 6 January 2026, that he’d come to the decision to reimpose the official prohibition on all authorised protests for another 14 day period across three policing areas in Greater Sydney....
