Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua: Interview with ULMWP’s Benny Wenda
Following his re-election as Australian PM Anthony Albanese paid a visit to relatively new Indonesia president Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta, with foreign minister Penny Wong and home affairs minister Tony Burke in tow. This is a rite of passage for...
In Committing the War Crime of Starvation, Israel Is Killing Off Babies and International Law
“There are 14,000 babies that will die within the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned the BBC on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 in respect of aid trucks then lined up at the...
“Erasure as Solidarity”: Black Peoples Union’s Keiran Stewart-Assheton on Settler Left Paradigms
Founded on this continent in 2022, the Black Peoples Union is an Indigenous political organisation that’s “working towards building a pan-Aboriginal movement in Australia, so that we can fight for our self-determination and our sovereignty”. But due to the BPU’s...
Victoria to Spend Millions on More Prison Beds for Unconvicted Youths
Ahead of its 20 May Budget for 2025/26, the Victorian Labor government last week announced it’s investing an extra $727 million on new prison beds because premier Jacinta Allan is well aware that current trends in governing Australian states and...
New Footage of Melbourne Synagogue Torching Reminiscent of Fake Sydney Attacks
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team released the footage of the arson attack targeting the Naarm-Melbourne Adass Israel Synagogue that happened after 4 am on 6 December 2024, at a time when so-called “antisemitic” crime was the major headline, and the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Doli Incapax: The Presumption that Kids Between 10 and 14 Cannot Form Criminal Intent The prosecution must prove a child aged 10 to 14 knew...
Australia Rejected Dutton’s Trumpism, But Albanese’s Embracing the Real Thing
The message at the May 2025 Australian ballot box was clear, the nation overwhelmingly rejected Peter Dutton’s brand of Trumpism that he’d spruiked in kicking off his campaign and attempted to renege on once his ratings dropped to the ground,...
Resisting the Suppression of Western Colonial Crimes: Interview with Activist Stephen Langford
On 8 May 2025, New South Wales District Court Judge Christine Mendes quashed the Local Court conviction of Sydney activist Stephen Langford for the offence of intentional or reckless damage or destruction to property, after finding that his act of...
NSW Police Force Falls Apart During Hearing of Strip Search Class Action
New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Dina Yehia was baffled by the manner in which the state’s police force approached the long-anticipated strip search class action, as it appears that the lawyers representing police took the same haphazard approach that...
Federal Labor Thinks Its Election Victory Vindicates Its Stance on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Key minister of the returned Albanese government Penny Wong told the Herald late last week that she considers the landslide victory her party received at the 3 May 2025 federal election as vindicating the “balanced and moderate policy” Labor took...
