Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 June 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Judge Removed from Drug Trial Pending Inquiry into Allegations of Past Evidence Fabrication A District Court Judge has been ordered to remove himself from a...
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As Rinehart Seeks to Gift Stolen Land to Israel, the MAGA Playbook Is Well Underway
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, signalled that the MAGA playbook the Trump administration is reshaping the United States with doesn’t have to await a Pauline Hanson primeministership to be set in action here, when she suggested last week that parts...
The Australian Health Regulator’s Stance on Israel Will Erode Rights and Harm Patients
AHPRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, announced last week, alongside Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, that the nation’s national healthcare watchdog has adopted the IHRA working definition on antisemitism, which will not only silence criticism of...
NSW Police Go Ballistic with Drug Dogs on Oxford Street, Again, to Destroy Pride Month
New South Wales police love to kill a party, and this month, it’s been targeting Pride celebrations, by running packs of officers and drug dogs through late night venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct, which has caused...
The Right to Abortion Is Under Threat: Interview with USYD Women’s Collective’s Grace Street
Right now, there is a rising multijurisdictional campaign seeking to chip away at the right to abortion in this country, and ultimately, to outlaw the practice. And whilst much of the community considered that reproductive justice was a right hard...
The Criminal Offence of Riot in New South Wales
Three men were arrested on Friday, 19 June 2026 and charged with a long list of crimes, including the offence of riot. The arrests were in response to New South Wales police officers having been called out to a park...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Good Character Will No Longer Be a Mitigating Factor During Sentencing in NSW A new law will prohibit the use of prior good character when...
The Thought Police Are Using the Protection of Kids to Justify the Expansion of Surveillance
The Australian federal police is seeking to use AI chatbots to monitor the activity of Australian children online to ensure they’re not being radicalised by terrorist and criminal networks, whilst the Queensland government is set to establish an intelligence hub...
Hanson’s Slick Delivery of Her One Nation Vision for Australia Should Alarm Us All
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club on 17 June 2026 should have the nation trembling in its boots, as the highly divisive nature of her dystopian and racist vision for a future Australia under her...
Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists
Four pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom were sentenced as terrorists last week in respect of criminal damage charges relating to a direct action on a factory near Bristol belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in August 2024. So,...
