NSW Legislates Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence, as Queensland Implements Zero Tolerance
In terms of drug driving laws, the New South Wales government is now centre stage due to its proposed and enlightened reforms that seek to ensure users of legal medicinal cannabis aren’t disqualified from driving for simply taking their medicine,...
NSW Driver Licence Photos to Be Incorporated into Federal Biometric Facial Database
Right now, there are laws before New South Wales parliament that facilitate the sharing of all NSW driver licence and identify card photos to a federal database containing ID photos from all Australian jurisdictions known as the National Driver Licence...
Woman Faces String of Charges Over Bus Stop Crash
A woman has been refused bail after being charged with a series of alleged traffic and criminal offences following an incident in Sydney’s Lower North Shore that police say began with a vehicle crashing into a bus stop before escalating...
Pushback Against Cannabis Driving Defence Involves Parochial View of Medicine
The pushback against the Minns government’s proposal to enact a statutory defence so medicinal cannabis users who drive have a legitimate means to avoid a charge of drug driving in New South Wales, is not only based on misinformation, but...
Questions Raised About Proposed Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Defence in NSW
After 10 years of medicinal cannabis being a legal prescription drug, the New South Wales government has announced that it’s going to introduce a drug driving defence for those prescribed cannabis but are currently unable to drive without risk of...
The Offence of Causing Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent to Avoid Arrest in NSW
A 17-year-old boy was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent to resist arrest last week, after he allegedly accelerated a Mazda sedan in the direction of several New South Wales police officers in Sydney’s north on Saturday, 6...
The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW
A little after 3pm on Sunday, 3 March 2026, New South Wales Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers were patrolling on Bundjalung land in the northeastern New South Wales town of Tweed Heads, when they were alerted to a...
The Offence of Drug Driving in New South Wales
The New South Police Force carried out one of its trademark statewide drink and drug driving blitzes from 12 am on Thursday, 12 February, to 4 am on Sunday, 15 February 2026. Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers) led to...
Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations
The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man...
First Ever Conviction of an Australian Police Officer Over Aboriginal Death in Custody
A New South Wales police officer was found guilty over the death in custody of Dunghutti teenager Jai Kalani Wright on 28 November 2025, which was not only significant for his family, but the dangerous driving causing death conviction was...
