NSW Inquiry into Cannabis Laws Recommends Staged Reforms Leading to Legalisation
The NSW parliamentary inquiry into state laws governing cannabis released its final report on 20 June 2025, and its central issue, that the fairly innocuous psychoactive plant remains illegal, was found to be causing harm in the community and the...
NT to Establish Armed Public Safety Officers: Pseudo-Police to Patrol Buses, Malls and Housing
Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro appears to be drinking the same kool aid as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as last week, the law-and-order, “us against them” campaign launched by her Country Liberal Party last August, will soon see...
Campaign for Free Speech About the Rights of Occupied Peoples Calls for Delisting of Hamas
The legal action launched by Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Sydney-based lawyer Daniel Taylor regarding the right to speak freely about the rights of occupied peoples in the public sphere has gained much interest, and this is sure to...
Court Ruling Proves Land Grants Covering Wiradjuri Are Illegal: Interview With Uncle Paul Towney
Proud Wiradjuri descendant Paul Towney will be appearing in Orange Local Court on 9 September, as he faces a charge of trespass, due to his having occupied land that is said to be owned by Charles Sturt University. The 2,000-odd...
Labor Continues Coalition’s Mass Deportations, as Yet Another Kiwi Resident to Be Turfed
The mass deportation program then immigration minister Scott Morrison launched in late 2014, which has seen over 3,000 New Zealand-born residents turfed out of this country, regardless of ties and length-of-stay, continues as well-known litigant Kate Pearson will on Thursday,...
Failure of Senior Labor Staffers to Attend Dural Caravan Inquiry Speaks Volumes
The members of a New South Wales upper house inquiry into how much premier Chris Minns and the state police minister knew regarding police suspicions that an explosive-laden caravan located on a Dural property was a “setup” were stunned on...
Courts Must Assess Individual Moral Culpability in Cases of Joint Criminal Enterprise
A Toyota Land Cruiser was stolen from electronics store Karera in the New South Wales Central Coast town of Tuggerah in mid-October 2020. At 9 am on 15 October 2020, Adam Jones, the son of a Karera manager, spotted the...
NSW Supreme Court Hears Challenge Against Unjustified Anti-Protest Laws
Appearing before the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday, 19 June 2025, Sydney activist Josh Less and his formidable legal team seem to have located a chink in the new antiprotest laws that the Minns government recently passed during a flurry...
Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States
The date has been set for the appeal against the extradition of Australian citizen Daniel Duggan to the United States over highly dubious accusations regarding flight training in South Africa. Dan is set challenge his extradition to the Federal Court...
Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur
A Chinese woman was violently attacked by a group of seven non-Asian teenagers, aged between 11 and 16, on Gadigal land in the Sydney eastern suburb of Eastgardens within the grounds of her apartment block on 21 May 2025. And...
