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Paul Gregoire

Paul Gregoire is a Sydney-based journalist and writer. He's the winner of the 2021 NSW Council for Civil Liberties Award For Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism. Prior to Sydney Criminal Lawyers®, Paul wrote for VICE and was the news editor at Sydney’s City Hub.

A Year in It’s Certain, Chris Minns Is a Liberal Premier Dressed in Labor Trappings

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The last NSW election, as usual, had Labor and the Liberals pitted against each other for governance. But the difference in the pre-election campaign, it was often remarked, was the seeming interchangeability between the leaders of each major both in...
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New South Wales Introduces Fining Scheme for All Prohibited Drugs

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The Minns government launched the Early Drug Diversion Initiative (EDDI) on 29 February 2024 with little fanfare, which is a shame because it does mark a long-pushed-for improvement on the zero-tolerance law enforcement approach to personal drug possession that had...

Terrorist Act Against Pro-Palestinian Not Regarded as Terrorism at All

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A resident of Botany and his partner came across a do-it-yourself bomb sitting atop the bonnet of his ute parked in his driveway, near the Palestinian flag he’d erected by his letterbox, along with a message board expressing his dismay...

SAMS (Special Administrative Measures): A Key Reason Assange Can’t Be Extradited

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The treatment the United States metes out to detainees is notoriously harsh, especially if you are considered an enemy of the state, and at times, it plainly constitutes torture. The extreme abuse at the black site of Abu Ghraib in...

NSW and Victorian Labor Continue to Stall on Pill Testing, Despite Yet Another Death

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Shortly after being airlifted to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, 23-year-old Antony Maugeri died of a suspected drug overdose last weekend, after having attended the Pitch Arts and Music Festival in southwestern Victoria. The death is a reminder that the last time...

A Lack of AUKUS Subs May Cause Domestic Frowns, But Uncle Sam Is None Too Fazed

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Australia was confronted with the news that the first of three second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines, we are is supposed to receive in 2032, may not be forthcoming just prior to Thursday’s one year anniversary of the 2023 San Diego...

NSW Government’s Tough-on-Youth-Crime Package: An Exercise in Passing Regressive Laws for Optics

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On Tuesday, the NSW Labor government made it known that it’s concerned about not appearing tough enough on kids who fall foul of the law. And as of Tuesday this week, the state has been altered to a youth crime...

The Australian War on Vapes: An Absurd Rejection of a Healthier Alternative

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Two NSW police officers recently approached a 13-year-old boy vaping outside a Coles supermarket in the NSW town of Deniliquin, and, as he stood right beside his mother and another youth, one officer ordered him to hand over his “vapes”...

Cold War Implications of Dan Duggan Extradition Heat Up as Security State Closes Ranks

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The extradition case involving Australian citizen Dan Duggan, which has seen the father-of-six remanded in prolonged isolation on request of the US for over 500 days now, has always maintained an air of legitimacy about it, despite its stark anomalies,...

Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern Condemns Absolute Liability Drug Driving Ruling

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Right now, the New South Wales drug driving laws that facilitate police roadside drug testing are unjust, and, over the last decade, when this open secret has been raised in parliament, conservative MPs feign a lack of understanding regarding the...
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