Deepfake Image and Audio-Based Intimate Image Offences in New South Wales
New intimate deepfake criminal offences came into effect in New South Wales On 16 February 2026, which expand preexisting intimate adult images offences to encompass compromising audio content and create a new offence of altering images or audio or using...
The Offence of Impersonating a Police Officer in New South Wales
A 58-year-old woman was walking on Gadigal land down Arnold Lane, in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills at around 11.45 am on 13 February 2026, when a man, whom she did not know, stopped her in the alleyway...
The Offence of Kidnapping in New South Wales
Far-right white nationalists and neo-Nazis were spitballing ideas around kidnapping Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, as well as blowing up mosques, in an online chatgroup in the immediate wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack that saw fifteen murdered. And...
The Offence of Engaging in Acts of Child Prostitution in New South Wales
Most people in New South Wales would recognise Jeffrey Epstein and associate the deceased United States citizen with being a child sex offender, involved in a smorgasbord of criminal offences. Yet, the multimillionaire financier was only ever convicted on two...
The Laws that Apply to Firearm Ownership in New South Wales
The appalling antisemitic mass shooting that killed 15 people on Gadigal land at Bondi Beach on Sunday, 14 December 2025, is to be deplored. The heinous crime is being investigated as an act of terrorism and represents the deadliest mass...
The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia
New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing...
‘Skye’s Law’: The Offence of Police Pursuit in New South Wales
New South Wales police officers commenced pursuit of a stolen sedan driven by a teenager accompanied by two friends, down the Camden Valley Way, which lies across Dharawal and Gundungurra land in Sydney’s southwestern fringe, after the driver failed to...
The NSW Offence of Permitting an Intoxicated Person on Licensed Premises
The New South Wales government made a number of announcements on 11 October 2025 that included, within its third tranche of vibrancy laws to help improve the 24-hour economy, that an amendment would be made to the Liquor Act 2007...
Landlords to Face Prison for Permitting Use of Premises for Illegal Vape or Tobacco Sales
The New South Wales government introduced new laws which could see commercial property owners facing a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison and/or a fine of up to $165,000 for knowingly permitting a tenant to supply illicit tobacco and/or...
The Criminal Offence of Dishonestly Obtaining Financial Advantage by Deception in NSW
Detectives from the New South Wales Police Financial Crime Squad arrested and charged a bank employee last Friday, 7 November 2025, in relation to an alleged multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate that was operating across Gadigal, Dharug and Dharawal...
