Federal Government Has Power to Intervene in State Child Crime Crackdowns, Senior Counsel Advises
NATSILS (the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service) has demanded that PM Anthony Albanese intervene and protect children from “dangerous new laws being implemented by state and territory governments”. These laws are known to primarily target First Nations...
NSW Drug Law Campaigners Call for Long Sought-After Illicit Substance Reforms
A coalition of NSW organisations led by Uniting held a presser last week calling on NSW premier Chris Minns to respond to the Report on the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit within the six-month-period that report authors set for...
“Direct Action Is Serious and Dangerous Work”: Violet Coco on the Whose Future Mobilisations
“The earth is not dying. It is being murdered,” read the banner hanging off the side of the house belonging to the chief executive officer of Viva Energy located on Boon Wurrung land in the south of Melbourne. The activists...
Strip Search Class Action Confirms Numerous NSW Police Strip Searches Illegal
NSW Court of Appeal Justice Dina Yehia awarded strip search class action lead plaintiff Raya Meredith $93,000 on Tuesday, while lawyers estimate her more than 3,000 co-plaintiffs could be awarded “potentially millions”, which will be the final outcome of a...
Intensive Correction Order Made Against Officer Who Illegally Shared Restricted Data
The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has found that NSW police leading senior constable Housam Khatib, who was recently sentenced to a three year intensive correction order (ICO) over accessing and disclosing confidential police information, has indeed conducted serious misconduct, however...
The Criminal Offence of Stealing Cattle in New South Wales
New South Wales police officers from the Orana Mid-Western Police District and the Rural Crime Prevention Team (RCPT) charged individuals in respect of the offence of steal cattle on Thursday 25 September 2025, after they’d allegedly stolen a horse that...
The NSW Mounted Police Has Turned Two Hundred Years Old
This month marked 200 years since the NSW mounted police was first established. The occasion was marked with a mounted police parade on Gadigal land to cross through the Sydney CBD and the public lined the city streets to mark...
Trump at the United Nations: The Mad King Appears Without His Clothes
The image of US president Donald Trump addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2025, as he presented a rambling egotistical, nationalistic and aggressive speech, conveyed that the international community is in deep turmoil...
The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Under Ongoing Attack from Israel
The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that as it sailed through Greek territorial waters early on 25 September 2025, it was likely to encounter further drone activity, while the EU had too warned of rising threats from the Israeli military, as...
Pseudo-Cops Enforcing Bylaws Are Starting to Appear on Australian Streets
City of Melbourne council has embarked upon a law enforcement experiment that involves security guards carrying out policing functions that on-the-beat officers usually perform to plug an inner city gap that the state government is considered to be failing to,...
