NSW Police Officers Cause Death of Yet Another Mentally Ill Person
New South Wales police officers restrained 45-year-old gay man Colin Burling to death on Gadigal land in the inner-city suburb of Waterloo sometime after 2.40 am on Tuesday 15 July 2025. State law enforcement had been called out to provide...
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Cops Gone Wild: NSW Police Officers Consistently Commit Brutality with Impunity
Two incidents involving NSW police that have recently captured public attention to the point of horror have revealed that officers on the beat are acting as if their uniforms place them above the law, and that standard operating procedures might...
The National Justice Project Is Calling for Alternative First Responders to Police: An Interview
The case that heightened the long-term calls for the state of NSW to invest in an alternative to NSW police officers being the first responders to people having mental health crises in the community was the fatal tasering of 95-year-old...
The West Papuan Legislative Council Has Held Its Inaugural Meeting in Jayapura
The 5 July 2025 inauguration of the West Papuan Legislative Council in West Papua’s Jayapura City “marked the rebirth of the West Papuan state”, remarked United Liberation Movement West Papua president Benny Wenda in a 10 July 2025 statement, adding...
Calls for Charges Against Lawyer Hannah Thomas to be Dropped and Police be Charged with Assault
Sydney lawyer Peter O’Brien has called on NSW police to drop the charges against his client, lawyer Hannah Thomas, after having recently viewed police body-worn video that clearly shows a male officer punching the 35-year-old woman in the face, as...
NSW Police Officer Faces Charges of Possessing Bestiality and Child Abuse Material
A police officer has been charged with misconduct in public office, unauthorised access to restricted data, possessing bestiality material and possessing child abuse material after an investigation by the Professional Standards Command of the New South Wales Police Force. The...
Antisemitism Envoy Plans to Make All Australians Complicit in Gaza Genocide
As Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese stood beside Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal on 10 July 2025, the public was not merely dumbfounded as to the draconian nature of the plan the ASCECA unveiled, which is supposed...
The Offence of Using, Publishing or Communicating Protected Information in NSW
A New South Wales police officer pleaded guilty to intentionally publishing protected information after sending a video that he took on his mobile telephone of him and another officer brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was experiencing...
Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform
Two New South Wales police officers recently pleaded guilty to several assault charges as well as unauthorised use of a prohibited weapon for brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was in the midst of a mental health...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 July 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Centralised Virtual Bail Court Regime Commences in NSW A new regime whereby bail applications in regional areas are decided by city magistrates via video-link commenced...
