Melbourne Council Is Roughing Up Rough Sleepers: Interview with HPUV’s Patrick “Spike” Chiappalone
The City of Melbourne is employing Community Safety Officers (CSOs) to assist Local Law Officers in their duties whilst they patrol the council’s local government area, and these unarmed officers are being encouraged not to be too afraid to apply...
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Minns Condemns Court’s Overturning of His Unconstitutional Protest Ban with Flawed Logic
In the wake of the blanket ban on protest marches being struck down by the state’s highest court on 16 April 2026, New South Wales premier Chris Minns has doubled down on his refusal to accept the ruling on his...
Social Media Giants are Deleting Lifesaving Drug Warnings: Interview with AIVL’s Molly Howes
Social media companies, like Meta and TikTok, have been removing the drug warning alerts that local harm reduction organisations have been posting on their social media pages, despite the fact that these are warnings about bad batches of illicit substances,...
Challenge to Ruling that Conferred Copyright of Animal Abuse Footage to Perpetrators
A Federal Court ruling caught many off-guard last year, as it found Game Meats Company (GMC) owned the copyright relating to images, including a 14 minute film, taken by Farms Transparency Project (FTP) at a goat slaughterhouse, which, if not...
The Offence of Destroying or Damaging Property, Previously Known as ‘Malicious Damage’
New South Wales police were called out to Campbell Parade at Bondi Beach, which is located on Gadigal land, following several reports regarding property damage on 29 November 2025. Officers attached to the Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command arrived at...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 April 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Convictions for Hindering Police and Offensive Language Quashed Due to Illegal Search The appeal court quashed the convictions as the conduct would not have occurred...
“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches
Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and...
Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian
The Federal Court has denied Australian citizen Dan Duggan’s appeal of former attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ 2024 decision to greenlight his extradition to the US on 2017 charges alleging he illegally trained Chinese military pilots. And while it’s understood the...
The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism
Federal Liberal “leader” Angus Taylor delivered a despicably racist, ethnonationalist migration policy speech on Tuesday, 14 April 2026. This desperate politician, whose status as opposition leader is in freefall, demonised what’s dubbed “our migrant community”, he called for immigration based...
Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, marked 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its 339 recommendations on how to curb the crisis. Yet, all these years on, and it’s only worsening with 630 First Peoples...
