Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters
The Australian PM and foreign minister have begun taking a harder line on Israel. Anthony Albanese stated on Sunday that the nation is in breach of international law due to its withholding of food from Palestinians in Gaza, while Penny...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 July 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Interviews Excluded as Officers Failed to Issue Formal Caution The appeal court excluded evidence of two police interviews as the detectives failed to formally...
No Moral Panic Sparked Over Attack on Islamic Place of Worship
Victoria police apprehended a 43-year-old man wielding a knife and calling out Islamophobic slurs outside the Hume Islamic Youth Centre on Wurundjeri land in the north Melbourne suburb of Coolaroo just before 6 pm on Monday 21 July 2025. Yet...
Third Man Charged with Murder Over Drive-By Shooting in Sydney
A third man has been charged with murder as investigations continue into the fatal shooting of a 65-year old woman in Sydney’s south west. The incident Campbelltown City Police Area Command established Strike Force Apslawn following a drive-by shooting which...
Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia
There has been considerable media reporting in recent times regarding the systemic problems in Australian childcare centres - from rampant neglect, physical and sexual abuse of children, to a lack of training, to insufficient staffing and inadequate staff training, and...
Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It
Federal Labor has expressed regrets but no real action on the Gaza genocide that Israel has been perpetrating over the last 21 months, yet the moment that marked a step too far was when Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi produced a...
Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights
Police asking civilians for the passwords to access their mobiles has become the norm, but in the vast majority of cases in NSW and in Queensland, officers need a warrant or a court order to require the code to access...
Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis
The NSW Police Force conducted a review of the practice of sending its officers in to deal with people having mental health crisis in public, as the problem is it often results in police killing civilians. And the review ultimately...
Criminal Offences Relating to Tobacco Products in Australia
Law enforcement officers from the Multi-Agency Strike Team (MAST) have issued a Court Attendance Notice (CAN) for two counts of importing tobacco products with intent to defraud revenue against a 42-year old man over the seizure of 25 million cigarettes...
“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt
The society-wide pressure not to speak out against the genocide Israel launched upon the Gaza Strip in October 2023 in Australia was instantaneous. This pressure required people not to raise the unbridled force Israel was pounding the people of Gaza...
