Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos
Local pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land in Hyde Park on Sunday, 22 February 2026, to march through the Sydney CBD. The constituents were in the park to express their grievances about a 29-month-long mass murder and starvation program against the...
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Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 February 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Supreme Court’s Reasons for Maintaining Major Events Declaration for Herzog Visit The court found it was warranted for police to wield extraordinary powers during...
Pauline Hanson’s Dog Whistling on Muslims Sets Politics into Race to the Bottom
“Oh, you know, you say, ‘Oh, well, there is good Muslims out there,’” One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said to Sky News host Sharri Markson during an interview on the evening of 16 February 2026. “How can you tell me...
United States Calls on Europe to Join in Return to Era of Western Expansionism
In addressing the Munich Security Conference on 14 February 2026, US secretary of state Marco Rubio told European leaders that the Trump administration is calling on EU nations to join America in reembarking upon the path of western expansion, which...
The Blanket Ban on Protests in NSW Has Been Lifted, But the Damage Has Been Done
The public assembly restriction declaration (PARD) or the blanket ban on authorised protest marches that’s covered parts of Greater Sydney since 24 December 2025 was lifted on Tuesday, 17 February 2026, after being in place for eight weeks, as the...
Right to Housing in Pending NSW Human Rights Bill Could End Unfair Tenant Evictions
The ACT Supreme Court has ruled in favour of three public housing tenants living on Ngunnawal land in Canberra, who claimed their rights were breached when a program seeking to redevelop and expand such housing, sought to evict and move...
The Offence of Impersonating a Police Officer in New South Wales
A 58-year-old woman was walking on Gadigal land down Arnold Lane, in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills at around 11.45 am on 13 February 2026, when a man, whom she did not know, stopped her in the alleyway...
ALS Warns of Unprecedented Risk of First Nations Custody Deaths in NSW
The Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT has warned that there’s unprecedented risk of First Nations deaths in custody in the New South Wales prison system at present, which is due to ongoing record-breaking numbers of First Peoples incarcerated in this state....
The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally
The 9 February 2026 NSW police assault upon the 20,000 pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders gathered to peacefully protest the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog continues to leave much of the constituency stunned. The shock of witnessing NSW police liberally applying...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 February 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW to Prohibit the Use of ‘Good Character’ as a Mitigating Factor in Sentencing New legislation will, if enacted, prohibit courts from considering prior good...