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...
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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...
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...