NSW Extends Its Youth Bail Crackdown, Despite Claims of Rising Youth Crime Being a Fallacy
The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14- to 17-year-olds for bail refusal if they’ve been charged with a serious motor theft or...
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Raids on Visa Overstayers Won’t Resemble US ICE Raids, Minister Claims
Home affairs minister Tony Burke unveiled federal Labor’s new policy to cut down on migrant numbers in this country, during a 17 September 2026 address to the National Press Club, and the part that has caused most concern is the...
Resisting Rising Militarism: WA Anti-War Collective Organisers on Protesting Land Forces 2026
The biannual Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition is about to take place once again. And this year, the nation’s largest weapons festival of its kind, will be taking place on Noongar land at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre...
A Summary of the Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Defence in NSW
New South Wales has passed a law establishing a medicinal cannabis drug driving defence, which means that “registered drivers” who are prescribed cannabis medicine and test positive for THC, the psychoactive component of the drug, in their system when driving,...
The Red Lines Package Bill Would End Australian Complicity in Foreign Atrocities
The Red Lines Package of legislation was introduced into federal parliament by a crossbench coalition last week. It comprises of four separate draft bills combined into an omnibus piece of legislation that, if passed, would broadly ensure Australia stops funding,...
Sydney Rallies to Demand that NSW Cops Stop Targeting Oxford Street Gay Bars
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney’s Taylor Square on Sunday afternoon to rally against New South Wales police having twice raided gay bars with sniffer dogs, on Oxford Street and its surrounds, once in Pride month and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 14 to 20 September 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts The NSW Council for Civil Liberties warns that laws spruiked as necessary to...
NSW Premier Chris Minns Has Been Referred to the State Police Watchdog
The premier has been referred over claims he’s been pressuring police to suppress “lawful public assemblies” when he doesn’t agree with what’s being voiced. New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson has referred NSW premier Chris Minns to the Law...
Prohibition Causes Gangland Violence, Not People Who Use Drugs
Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett has suggested that the Australia public ought to have a discussion about drug use and organised crime, as she considers that people who use drugs are complicit in the spike in gang-related violence in...
NSW Police Force Is Back to Raiding LGBTIQA+ Licensed Venues on Oxford Street
New South Wales police has again raided LGBTIQA+ venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street, with sniffer dogs in tow. This is the second set of raids on the fabled queer district, with the first taking place in June’s...
