Liberties Council Has the NSW Public’s Back on the Antisemitism Law-and-Order Smokescreen
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has raised its concerns that antisemitism has been and continues to be weaponised by politicians and the media alike, via “the incorrect and harmful conflation of Zionism and Judaism”. Zionism, the NSWCCL confirms, is...
NSW Police Stop Using Ineffective and Racially Biased Facial Recognition Identification System
New South Wales police minister Yasmin Catley revealed on 8 April 2025 that the New South Wales Police Force recently ended its use of the PhotoTrac Suspect Identification System, which involved facial recognition software produced by German company Cognitec, and...
Will Australia’s Chief Lawmaker Finally Introduce Effective Whistleblower Protections?
Commonwealth attorney general Mark Dreyfus traipsed back into office at the 2025 federal election, as he took two-thirds of the vote in the seat of Issacs, which is the electorate that he’s held since 2007. The big question many are...
The Freedom Flotilla Ship’s Mission to Deliver Aid Continues, Despite Drone Attacks
The Conscience, a ship belonging to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was anchored in international waters off the coast of Malta just after midnight on 2 May 2025, as it was awaiting civilian volunteers from 21 countries to join the crew...
The Return of Albanese in Majority Signals Further Relinquishing Control to the US
The resounding rejection of the Liberal Nationals at last Saturday’s federal election saved the nation from a potential authoritarian power grab at the hands of former Liberal leader Peter Dutton, which is a fate that’s been averted moving into the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 28 April to 4 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Malicious Prosecution Does Not Apply to Apprehended Domestic Violence Orders The court found that those against whom an application for an ADVO is falsely and...
Trump Is Invoking a New Era of Western Colonialism Inspired by Netanyahu
Regardless of which way the votes are cast this weekend, the resulting 48th Australian parliament is not likely to alter our strong ties to the US, and especially our military ones, which means we’ll remain a vassal of a superpower...
Australia’s Arms Exports System Is a Loose Free-for-All: Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes
Australian arms exports became a front and centre issue in October 2023, on outbreak of the Gaza genocide, and regardless of the fact that former Palestine stalwarts PM Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong were reimaging the mass murder...
Challenging the Power to Extinguish Protest Across Sydney: Interview with Palestine Action Group’s Josh Lees
The Palestine Action Group launched a legal challenge against one of the new antiprotest laws that the Minns government rushed through New South Wales parliament as part of a package of bills in February 2025, which were said to be...
Federal Politics Doesn’t Need a Neo-Nazi Party, as Canberra Has Enough Far-Right Actors
The neo-Nazi booing of Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown, as he was performing Welcome to Country at the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Naarm-Melbourne on 25 April 2025, Anzac Day, was a deplorable act of racism that...
