Criminal Law

NSW Justice Package 2025: Courtrooms for Vulnerable Complainants and More Prison Cells

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The New South Wales government announced a half a billion dollar justice package on 2 June 2025, which is to be included as part of the 2025-26 NSW Budget. The package involves an additional $100.5 million in funding for Corrective...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 June 2025

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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Offence of Engaging in Unqualified Legal Practice in NSW A man who pretended to be a lawyer under a fake law firm could face...

The Right to Hunt to be Enshrined in New South Wales Law

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We certainly live in Trumpian times. In New South Wales, esteemed legal figures, progressive politicians and civil liberties advocates have been campaigning for decades to see various human rights protected in law, yet, after two years in office, it appears...

Constitutional Rights in Australia Versus the United States

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Despite the efforts of the current president of the United States to enhance state control through executive orders at the expense of fundamental civil liberties, the nation’s constitution explicitly guarantees wide range of individual rights in relation to the government....

US Pressures Australia to Increase Military Spending, As War Against China “May Be Imminent”

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The Albanese government tossed the White House the keys to the Australian military early on in its first term of office and to such a degree that it’s difficult to consider our grovelling leaders could bend over backwards any further...

The Australian System Is Designed to Deny Accountability for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

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The slim reports regarding the circumstances of last week’s Aboriginal death in custody tells us that at around 1 pm on 27 May 2025 in Coles Alice Springs, Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, who presented obviously as...

Police Minister Is a Key Reason for NSW Government’s Failure to Protect Civil Liberties

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The Minns government has been decidedly disappointing when it come to a number of policy areas, especially around civil liberties, drug law reform and indeed, policing reform. But while critics have been pointing the finger at the NSW premier Chris...

Government Prioritises Industry Over People: Disrupt Burrup Hub on the North West Shelf Approval

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A massive protest took place outside the District Court of Western Australia last Friday, as Disrupt Burrup Hub members, Gerard Mazza, Tahlia Stolarski and Jesse Noakes, were set to be charged in relation to an April 2023 nonviolent direct action,...

Melbourne Uni Law Professor Criticised Over Kanaky-New Caledonia Colonial Propaganda

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The Kanaky solidarity movement across this continent has only grown since the 13 May 2024 rioting in Kanaky, or so-called French-administered New Caledonia, so it’s no surprise that after University of Melbourne Law Professor Eric Descheemaeker recently made remarks during...

Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Defence Introduce in NSW Parliament

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New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has long been attempting to address the legal anomaly that sees prescribed users of medicinal cannabis at risk of losing their drivers licence whenever behind the wheel, including when unimpaired. Yet, with the...
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