The NSW Police Powers Unlocked by the Commissioner’s Terrorism Designation
A panic over terrorism has hit New South Wales, following a recent mass murder and another nonfatal stabbing incident in this state. NSW police commissioner Karen Webb determined that the nonlethal knife crime was an act of terrorism under the...
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Government Uses Stabbings and Terrorism Raids to Justify Crackdown on Free Speech
ASIO boss Mike Burges and AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw appeared at the National Press Club on Wednesday, to stress the need for a crackdown on internet freedoms in the wake of recent Sydney stabbings and raids, although these events had...
Thought Crime Becomes a Reality in Latest NSW Police ‘Terrorism’ Operation
Sydney breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday afternoon, as New South Wales police announced announced that Operation Mingary, which comprised 400 officers deployed to thirteen locations across the city’s west, had resulted in seven “juveniles” being arrested, so we’re...
The Terrorism Designation Is Going to Haunt Us All, as Is Another Recent Wrong Call
“The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team will investigate the stabbing of religious leaders at a church in Sydney’s southwest overnight,” read NSW Police News on Tuesday morning. “About 7.10 pm on Monday, police were called to a church… following reports...
Sydney Knife Attacks: A Tale of Two Terrorisms
Six people were stabbed to death in a crowded Bondi Junction shopping mall on Saturday afternoon by 40-year-old Joe Cauchi, an Australian of European descent, and whilst he was apparently targeting women, New South Wales police determined the attack was...
Terrorist Act Against Pro-Palestinian Not Regarded as Terrorism at All
A resident of Botany and his partner came across a do-it-yourself bomb sitting atop the bonnet of his ute parked in his driveway, near the Palestinian flag he’d erected by his letterbox, along with a message board expressing his dismay...
Returned ‘ISIS Wife’ Pleads Guilty to Entering and Remaining in a ‘Declared Land’
A New South Wales woman has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced for willingly entering and staying in Syria to be with her husband, who is accused of being a member of the declared terrorist organisation Islamic State. Australian citizen...
AFP Radicalise Troubled Autistic Child Then Charge Him With Terrorism Offences
The Victorian Children’s Court heard last October that, after his parents attended a Victoria police station in April 2021 seeking assistance, a 13-year-old autistic boy, who’d developed an obsession with the Islamic State, was radicalised by law enforcement and entrapped into...
Criminal Offences Relating to Terrorist Organisations, Declared Areas and Foreign Fighting
Federal Attorney- General Mark Dreyfus informed the public during a press conference on 28 December 2023 that two Australian citizens were killed during an air strike in Southern Lebanon the previous night. The nation’s chief lawyer added that the listed...
Local Laws Criminalise Citizens Partaking on Either Side of the Israeli Carnage in Gaza
Two Australian citizens were killed by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, attorney general Mark Dreyfus confirmed at a 28 December presser, and he added that Hizballah, a listed terrorist organisation, has claimed links to one of the Bazzi brothers....
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