The NSW Mounted Police Has Turned Two Hundred Years Old
This month marked 200 years since the NSW mounted police was first established. The occasion was marked with a mounted police parade on Gadigal land to cross through the Sydney CBD and the public lined the city streets to mark...
Trump at the United Nations: The Mad King Appears Without His Clothes
The image of US president Donald Trump addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2025, as he presented a rambling egotistical, nationalistic and aggressive speech, conveyed that the international community is in deep turmoil...
The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Under Ongoing Attack from Israel
The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that as it sailed through Greek territorial waters early on 25 September 2025, it was likely to encounter further drone activity, while the EU had too warned of rising threats from the Israeli military, as...
Pseudo-Cops Enforcing Bylaws Are Starting to Appear on Australian Streets
City of Melbourne council has embarked upon a law enforcement experiment that involves security guards carrying out policing functions that on-the-beat officers usually perform to plug an inner city gap that the state government is considered to be failing to,...
NSW Police Officer Who Punched Hannah Thomas Has Been Charged with Assault
A New South Wales police officer who punched lawyer and human rights activist Hannah Thomas in her right eye has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The senior officer struck Thomas in the face as she questioned his...
Luke Moore Secures Hatrick of Successfully Suing Police
Luke Brett Moore, law graduate and strip search activist, was awarded $450,000 in respect of a civil suit against the state of NSW for malicious prosecution on 12 September 2025, after NSW police constable Daniel Keneally, the son of former...
Pine Gap Protest Activists Face Court Over Highlighting US Base’s Role in Gaza Genocide
Peace activists Carmen Escobar Robinson and Tommy Walker are set to appear in Alice Springs Local Court again on 23 and 24 September 2025, in relation to summary offences that they were slapped with in respect of their second direct...
Youth Crime: Prevention and Diversion Produce Better Outcomes than Punitive Measures
Australian federal, state and territory governments have in recent years passed a range of laws which take an increasingly punitive approach to youth crime - a populist approach which focuses on incarcerating troubled youths in detention centres rather than addressing...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 September 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sentence Reduced as Judge Failed to Find that Immediate Admissions Count as Assistance to Police The appeal court found the sentencing judge was in error...
Australia, Canada and UK Recognise Palestine as a State
On 21 September 2025, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom joined 151 of 193 member states of the United Nations in recognising Palestine as a sovereign state. And while the move is intended to pressure Israel into putting an end...
