Aboriginal Death in Custody Occurs at Nation’s Largest Prison, as the Crisis Continues
A 21-year-old First Nations man died in prison custody on Gumbaynggirr Country on 15 July 2026, whilst detained in Australia’s largest prison, Clarence Correctional Centre, located close by the New South Wales Northern Rivers town of Grafton. Privately-run by the...
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Big Coles Is Watching You and Collecting Information While You’re Shopping
The early 2024 announcement that Coles Supermarkets Australia was entering into a three-year contract with Palantir Technologies to incorporate its data integration and artificial intelligence platforms into its operations was jarring, as has been its more recent rollout of CCTV...
School Employee Charged with Possessing Child Abuse and Animal Abuse Material
Detectives from the New South Wales Police Sex Crimes Squad have charged a man employed at a school with a string of alleged child abuse material and animal abuse material offences, as part of the ongoing Strike Force Trawler investigation....
US Calls on Australia to Join Coalition Against Global “Far-Left Terrorism”
During his opening address at the 16 July 2026 Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, a Washington DC meeting that involved representatives from more than 65 nations, including Australia, US secretary of state Marco Rubio made certain that the...
The Offence of Child Abduction in New South Wales
A New South Wales woman was sentenced to two years prison time in March 2025, over having abducted her own child from a park on Dharawal land in the coastal city of Wollongong in December 2022. The woman had taken...
Impact of Youth on Moral Culpability Must Be Considered in Sentencing
Ali Qadir arranged to meet Karim Shehade at an address in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Yagoona at around 11 pm on 14 October 2023, in order to buy a car that the latter had listed on Facebook Marketplace for...
Woman Charged Over Alleged $3 Million Clandestine Lab Sourcing Role
A 59-year-old woman has been refused bail after being arrested by State Crime Command detectives and charged for her alleged involvement in a $3 million drug manufacturing syndicate operating in the Port Stephens area. The arrest follows a long-running investigation...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 13 to 19 July 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The NSW Doli Incapax Legislative Framework and Related Youth Offender Amendments An explanation of the process that must now be followed when deciding whether a...
Applying Force After Restraint Is the NSW Policing Way, Despite Potential Fatalities
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson recently posted footage of a police officer senselessly punching a civilian. She describes the victim as being “face down on the ground already restrained and unarmed”, yet an officer is seen to repeatedly...
Pushback Against Cannabis Driving Defence Involves Parochial View of Medicine
The pushback against the Minns government’s proposal to enact a statutory defence so medicinal cannabis users who drive have a legitimate means to avoid a charge of drug driving in New South Wales, is not only based on misinformation, but...
