Six Australians Illegally Detained and Abused by Israel Have Been Released
Six Australians who were illegally apprehended by Israel late last week have been released. These Australians were taken into custody in international waters as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla: a civilian-run aid mission bound for Gaza, which is the...
The Various Offences of Drug Supply in New South Wales
A 29-year-old woman from the southwestern New South Wales town of Young was charged with 56 drug offences on Thursday 2 October 2025, whilst her 19-year-old male counterpart has been charged with five crimes involving illicit substances. NSW Police Strike...
Israeli Has Kidnapped Six Australians Sailing on the Global Sumud Flotilla
Israel has illegally apprehended six Australians, climate activist Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela, and hundreds of other foreign nationals, in international waters off the coast of Gaza, and in response civilians have held no-holds-barred protests globally, with those...
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...
