No War With China: An Interview With Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition’s Peter Murphy
The pace at which war with China talk has been emerging from Canberra of late is alarming. Last year there were rumblings coming from PM Scott Morrison around sophisticated cyberattacks, but since Peter Dutton took on the role of defence...
Law Enforcement Outwits Alleged Criminal Syndicates: The ANOM App
Police have arrested more than 800 alleged members of criminal syndicates around the world by using an innovative phone app that tricked them into believing their communications could not be monitored or traced. Technology and innovation The encrypted app worked...
A More Inclusive City of Sydney: An Interview With Greens Council Candidate Sylvie Ellsmore
Since the 2016 City of Sydney council elections, the political climate has changed dramatically, as multiple crises have swept through NSW, which have included the years-long drought, the 2019-20 bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have led to dramatic...
Dutton Puts Aussies at Risk Through His Rhetoric and Actions Towards China
The newly minted Australian defence minister has further turned up the volume on the war with China rhetoric. This time Peter Dutton’s backing a plan to rotate larger numbers of US troops through the Northern Territory, as well as for...
The Law, Penalties and Defences Relating to Money Laundering in New South Wales
A Sydney millionaire has been arrested and charged after police claim to have found $7 million dollars in a backyard bunker. Well known businessman, 39-year old Hugo Jacobs was arrested at Sydney Airport before boarding a flight to Dubai after...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 June 2021
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Can Police In NSW Search Through Your Phone Without a Warrant? The rules when it comes to police seizing and searching through mobile phones without...
Extinction Rebellion Shuts Down Nation’s Largest Port, With Union Approval
A cadre of Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists braved the pelting rain on 10 June to successfully shut down the transport of liquid fuel coming out of Port Botany for over four hours. It was the coldest NSW day for 37...
Government to Pay $1.8 Billion Over Illegal Robodebt Extortion Scheme
A Federal Court judge has approved a $1.8 billion settlement for victims of the Federal Government’s illegal Robodebt recovery scheme, while at the same time delivering a scathing assessment of the government’s failure in ‘public administration’. The approval signals the...
Dungays Take NSW Government to the United Nations, Backed by Legal Heavyweights
Aunty Leetona Dungay has resolved to take both the Australian and the NSW governments to the United Nations to seek justice in relation to the killing of her son David Dungay Junior at the hands of Long Bay Gaol prison...
Federal Government Continues ‘Publicly Funded Torture’ of Biloela Family
As yet another petition does the rounds on social media, aimed at putting pressure on the Federal Government to release the Tamil Family that has been detained on Christmas Island for years, the new Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has...
