Government Claims Attorney General Can’t Reverse Decision to Extradite Dan Duggan
Former Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus signed off on the process of Washington’s attempt to extradite Australian citizen Daniel Duggan in late 2022, and he provided the final greenlight last December, following the NSW Local Court having approved extradition. Yet,...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 August 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Courts Must Consider Relevant Financial Burden When Sentencing for Fraud Offences The appeal court found that a judge was in error by not considering the...
Albanese’s Gaza Recipe: Add a Bit of Recognition and Continue with the Two-Way Arms Trade
The prime minister of Australia Anthony Albanese announcing on Monday, 11 August 2025 that this country will be recognising “the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own” at the UN General Assembly meeting in September, produced...
Envoy Pressures Australia to Adopt a Fraudulent Antisemitism Definition
Despite noisy outcry from his party’s rank-and-file members, Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese is continuing to consider Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal’s plan to do just that, which at its core, would result in the IHRA working...
Australian Governments Are Increasingly Intent on Imprisoning Children
The latest NSW custody figures were released on Thursday, 14 August 2025, and there’s been a 34 percent surge in youths being imprisoned over the last two years, and at present, 71 percent of these kids are on remand, or...
The Disconnect Between the Antisemitism Moral Panic and Melbourne’s Nazis on Parade
The National Socialist Network (NSN) again paraded through city streets last weekend. This time, however, the footage of the black clad white Australian men shows a more formidable procession than ever before, with more than a hundred white supremacists on...
NT Law-and-Order Drive Forbodes Landgrab, Says Justice Not Jails Stephen Enciso
Since taking office in August 2024, the Northern Territory Country Liberal government has gone to town with a law-and-order drive that disproportionately targets the sovereign First Peoples of the region, and as its crackdown, particularly on youth crime, only intensifies,...
NSW Police Officer’s Casual Assault on First Nations Woman Highlights Systemic Issue
Footage capturing yet another incident revealing the casual callous violence with which NSW police officers regularly approach First Peoples has gone viral. The 22 July 2025 incident involves an officer approaching Aboriginal woman Jaleenah Collins unawares from behind and forcefully...
“We Are Way Out of Time”: Women from XR Victoria Protesting for Two Years Warn Social Collapse Imminent
A group of women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Victoria marked the two year anniversary of their ongoing weekly protest demonstration last Friday, 8 August 2025, as they continued to call for Australian governments to act on climate. And as usual...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 4 to 10 August 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Alleged Members of Criminal Group Charged with a Range of Serious Offences Alleged members of a group dubbed ‘G7’ are facing court over drug, property...