Substantial Video Evidence Supports Assertion that Police Brutalised Anti-Herzog Protesters
Despite delays to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s public hearings into Operation Makalu,the first hearing went ahead on the 19 October 2026. This inquiry is into the alleged misconduct of NSW police at the 9 February 2026 protest against Israeli...
Permanent NSW Wanding Laws Give Police More Power to Harass Members of the Public
The Minns government last week made permanent 2024-enacted temporary wanding laws, which empower New South Wales police officers to randomly approach anyone in a declared zone to run a handheld metal detector over the outside of their clothing. And this...
Requiring Government Permission to Protest Is an Erosion of the Fundamental Right
The Australian Democracy Network and Deakin University have released a joint report into the various protest permission frameworks operating in local states and territories, such as the Form 1 process in New South Wales, and the study found that they...
Calls to Remove Religious Schools Exemptions Against LGBTIQA+ Students and Teachers Are Back
Independent MP Allegra Spender has introduced laws to repeal the exemptions that permit religious schools to deny entrance to or to remove teachers, students and contractors from their institutions, due to their diverse sexualities and genders. This proposal originally took...
The NSW Offence of Possess Equipment to Produce Identification Information
New South Wales Police Financial Crimes Squad detectives charged two men with four counts each of possess equipment to produce identification information on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, following Strike Force Dawport being established in April 2026, to investigate a rise...
The Digital Duty of Care: Albanese’s Sweeping Future Risk Online Content Control Regime
The Albanese government’s Digital Duty of Care proposal now before federal parliament is said to be about protecting average Australians from online harms - think, child pornography or the incitement to acts of terrorism. And the proposed regime is a...
Stop Cooking the River: SCRAP’s Paddy Gibson on Preventing the Cook River Datacentre
Goolay’yari, or the Cooks River, has weaved its way across Gadigal, Wangal, Bidjigal and Gamegal land for centuries, and today, it’s nestled between Sydney’s inner west suburbs. Indeed, developers Stockland and John Boyd Properties consider the site so ideal, that...
Dark Enlightenment: The Authoritarian Trajectory Being Taken by Tech Giants
Since key Silicon Valley billionaire tech bros lined up behind Donald Trump for his second coming inauguration to the US presidency on 20 January 2025, it’s become clear that these increasingly influential figures aren’t beacons of democratic values, but their...
Greens Seek to Prohibit NSW Police from Using Sniffer Dogs in Public Places
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann just tabled a bill to end the scourge that is the warrantless use of drug detection dogs in public places by NSW police. These laws come at a time when the dogs have...
Australia’s Top Cop’s Priorities: AI Policing, Foreign Interferers and the Dural Caravan Hoaxer
AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett last week gave multiple interviews to mainstream media outlets to mark her one-year anniversary and raise key priorities for the law enforcement agency. The top cop is continuing to prioritise the capture of the mastermind behind...
