Use of Body-Worn Video Cameras Is Now Mandatory for NSW Police Officers
From Thursday, 5 August 2026, all New South Wales police officers have been required to turn on their body-worn video (BWV) cameras when working in an “operational capacity”, including when exercising their law enforcement powers, using force, attending serious crimes...
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Mental Health Experts Will Soon Provide an Alternative First Response to Crisis Callouts
Social justice advocates breathed a sigh of relief last week, when the New South Wales government announced it is establishing an alternative to NSW police as first responders to mental health crisis callouts. This will involve an emergency line connecting...
More Than 70 Percent of Aboriginal Kids Behind Bars Australia Are on Remand
On an average night over 2024-25, more than 70 percent of First Nations youths held in Australian child prisons were on remand, which meant that either a decision on their guilt had not yet been made or they were yet...
Oversighting the NSW DPP: An Interview with NSW Labor MLC Stephen Lawrence
The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has of late been the subject of scandal and a controversial NSW parliamentary inquiry, which recommended that the state government give consideration to establishing a parliamentary committee mandated to...
High Court Challenge Launched Against Ban on Political Slogans
A legal suit was lodged with the High Court of Australia last week, challenging the Queensland Crisafulli government’s recently applied prohibition against the uttering or displaying of specific pro-Palestinian political protest slogans in public, with the plaintiffs’ claim being that...
Answers Sought Over Why Charges Haven’t Been Laid Over Kumanjayi White’s Custody Death
The family of deceased man Kumanjayi White has this week initiated legal proceedings in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to ascertain which NT police employee decided not to press charges against two officers, who’d wrestled the 24-year-old Warlpiri man with...
NSW Police to Be Given Powers to Access and Download Phone Content on the Beat
The Minns government is set to introduce new laws into New South Wales parliament, so that the power NSW police has to require people to provide access to their digital devices, in order to a facilitate scan and download of...
Northern Territory Passes Law to Create Another Stolen Generations
The Northern Territory passed laws last week that abolished the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, which is policy designed to ensure that when the state removes a First Nations child from their family, the authorities attempt to place the minor with...
NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial in Moree Is Set to Be Rolled Out Statewide
New South Wales police gathered local officials on Gomeroi Country in the northern NSW town of Moree on 8 January 2026 to announce it would be trialling crime-related drone surveillance in the area for the next six months starting then....
NSW Inquiry Recommends that Watchdog Be Established to Oversee the DPP
A New South Wales parliamentary committee inquiry into Identity Protections for Proceedings Involving Children earlier this month recommended that a standing committee be established to provide oversight of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, further suggesting that an...
