NSW Police are Withdrawing Criminal Charges Brought Under Unconstitutional Protest Ban
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed to ABC Radio on the morning of 13 May 2026 that criminal charges brought under the unconstitutional protest ban law in relation to the 9 February rally against the official visit of...
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The Erosion of Australia’s Responsibility to Its People: ISIS Brides, IDF Returnees and Gaza Activists
Four Australian women and nine children, known collectively as the “ISIS brides”, arrived back in Australia on 7 May 2026. Three of the women were promptly charged and remanded over domestic crimes that carry universal jurisdiction, which stands in stark...
Modern Labor Is “Quite Comfortable” With the Trump-Netanyahu Agenda, Says Shoebridge
A common quip that does the rounds of the internet of late, has been that Australian foreign minister Penny Wong is “deeply concerned” following yet another catastrophic event on the global stage, whilst as for PM Anthony Albanese, when he’s...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 4 to 10 May 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW A man has been charged with driving with a high range concentration...
All-Pervasive Palantir-Built Surveillance System Is Monitoring Australians
Most of us understand the concept of Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother heads the Ingsoc government that runs Oceania, which is notable for the all-seeing-eye system it’s developed, in which citizens have no privacy....
Albanese Remains Silent on Australians Kidnapped and Tortured by Israel
Six Australian citizens sitting in boats in international waters close by the coast of Crete, a Greek island, were apprehended at semiautomatic gunpoint and taken hostage by Israeli soldiers on 30 April 2026. The Australians were then detained on a...
Albanese Follows Trump’s Lead by Increasing Military Spending Whilst Cutting Disability Funding
Australian defence minister Richard Marles announced that the government will raise military spending to 3 percent of GDP by 2033, during a 16 April 2026 speech at the National Press Club, whilst health minister Mark Butler addressed the same venue...
Civil Society Calls on Corrective Services NSW to Implement Ombudsman Prison Reforms
A coalition of 16 New South Wales legal and rights organisations is calling on NSW corrections minister Anoulack Chanthivong to urgently ensure that Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) actions the 34 recommendations the NSW Ombudsman advised it implement in respect to...
Mardi Gras’ Anti-Trans and Genocide-Denial Turn Is Trumpian, Says Pride in Protest’s Miles Carter
This year’s Sydney Mardi Gras parade was something of a travesty. The Mardi Gras board banned the pro-trans rights/antigenocide Pride in Protest contingent from marching at the last minute, while NSW police officers then brutalised marchers from other floats over...
Antisemitism Interim Report Finds No Legislative or Systems Gaps, But the Stickler Is Still to Come
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion interim report outlines that there could have been a heavier police presence on Gadigal land at the Jewish event at Bondi Beach, when the 14 December 2025 mass murder took place, and...
