The Offence of Use Carriage Service to Menace, Harass or Cause Offence in NSW
New South Wales police officers arrested a 26-year-old woman at her home on Wallumedegal land in the Sydney suburb of Meadowbank at 4.30 pm on 22 December 2025, and she was subsequently charged at Gladesville police station over allegedly making...
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Albanese Is Facilitating Trump’s Brazen Contraventions of International Law
With the 3 January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the US Trump administration signalled the death knell of the edifice of international law established since World War II. And it must be understood that whilst...
Death in Custody Protesters Vow to Take to the Streets on Invasion Day
A First Nations deaths in custody protest took place on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Hyde Park on 18 January 2026. The rally marked 10 years since the funeral of Dunghutti man David Dungay Junior. Yet, whilst calling for a new...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 January 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Appeal Against Sentence Succeeds Due to the Principle of Parity The defendant was resentenced for a robbery offence after he received nearly double the sentence...
Stamping Out Hate with Draconian Laws Is a Rush to the Bottom in Terms of Rights
When it came time for the Australian home affairs minister to address the press in relation to the omnibus combating antisemitism bill, Tony Burke pointed to a number of key aspects of the legislation. These involve the listing of hate...
Federal Government’s Antisemitism Hate Bill Threatens to Further Erode Civil Liberties
Federal parliament is convening for special sitting days on 19 and 20 January 2026, with the aim of passing new hate crime laws and gun measures contained in an omnibus bill, which taken together with a swag of other post-Bondi...
Inmate Appeals Refusal to Release Him via Writ of Habeas Corpus
Elefterios “Terry” Fantakis is set to appeal the 2 September 2025 decision of then NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Ian Harrison to deny a writ of habeas corpus directing the Macquarie Correctional Centre governor to bring Fantakis before the...
“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...
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,...
