With Strip Search Class Action About to Begin, Police Admit Strip Search of Young Woman Was Illegal
The New South Wales Police Force admitted on 2 April 2025 that a strip search performed upon a young woman attending the Byron Bay Splendour in the Grass music festival almost seven years ago, was illegal, and it appears the...
The Greens Defence Policy Is About Peace and Independence: Interview with Senator Shoebridge
On 22 March 2025, there occurred frenzied discussions and even denouncements across Australian social media feeds, following news breaking that the Australian Greens had unveiled their first “formally costed policy” regarding Australian defence, which was announced under a headline, outlining...
The UK Refusal to Extradite El-Khouri to the US Conflicts with the Australian Decision on Duggan
The 12 February 2025 decision of five justices of the UK Supreme Court to refuse to extradite dual British and Lebanese citizen Joseph El-Khouri to the US stands in stark contrast to the decision of the NSW Local Court to...
Former Philippines President Faces Trial Over Drug War Killing Spree
The fact that former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, who on taking office in June 2016, launched a drug war comprised of mass extrajudicial killings that continued until he left office in June 2022, is now in the custody of the...
Drug Summit Recommends Prohibiting Sniffer Dogs and Strip Searches at Music Festivals
The last week released NSW Drug Summit 2024 report recommended 56 priority actions be undertaken in this state to improve the issue of illicit drugs and the harms associated, with the final one being the cessation of the use of...
Police Advised Premier “Very Early On” That ‘Antisemitic’ Caravan Bomb Plot Could Be a Hoax
On the first day of parliamentary hearings into whether recent hate crime and antiprotest offences were enacted in bad faith, concerns around the New South Wales premier and police minister being aware that a caravan full of explosives the laws...
Reoccupying Illegally Acquired Wiradjuri Country: An Interview with Uncle Paul Towney
Wiradjuri elder Paul Towney began occupying a parcel of land of over 2,000 acres in size said to be owned by Charles Sturt University in the NSW regional town of Orange, as he came to understand that when that land...
Calls for Federal Intervention as States and Territories Crackdown on Youth Crime
The Crisafulli government came to power in Queensland in October 2024 with its key policy initiative being “adult crime, adult time”, which is a regime that sees kids as young as 10, who commit certain serious criminal offences facing “adult...
Reforms Recommended by the NSW Drug Summit Are Long Overdue
The 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit report was released on 3 April 2025. It recommends 56 priority actions are taken, including some prominent long-term drug law reforms, like enacting a drug driving defence for users of medicinal cannabis, the...
Will an Expansionist Trump Turn His Colonial Gaze Towards Australia?
As the nation heads to the ballot on 3 May 2025, Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) has suggested to the Australian constituency that as it heads to the vote “the spectre of rabid, fanatical” and indeed, expansionist US president Donald Trump...
