Trump’s Attack on Lawyers Signals Where Authoritarianism Can Take Us
The Trump administration is continuing its revamping of the United States, as a modern authoritarian regime, that now flagrantly disregards the norms of international law, whilst terrorising its domestic population with increasing assaults upon civil rights and the social sector,...
NSW Government Launches Review as It Feels Not Enough Kids Are Being Locked Up
New South Wales premier Chris Minns, attorney general Michael Daley and police minister Yasmin Catley are all grown adults employed to assist in the governing of this state. Yet, for some reason, this appears to make them obsessed with ensuring...
Doli Incapax: The Presumption that Kids Between 10 and 14 Cannot Form Criminal Intent
A 15-year-old boy made a complaint to New South Wales police about his older brother twice having had sexual intercourse with him, whilst he was roughly 6 years and 9 months old, which made his brother then 11 years and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Despite Falling Crime Rates, Police Are Criminally Charging More People Than Ever Before Despite NSW crimes rates falling for decades, heavy-handed policing has ensured courts...
NSW Government Proposes to Ensure More Kids Are Criminally Convicted
There have been media reports that a High Court case in 2016 which makes clear the onus is on the prosecution to prove that those under the age of 14 knew their conduct was ‘seriously wrong’ in order to secure...
Confirming It’s Legal to Speak About the Right Occupied Peoples Have to Armed Resistance
Krautungalung elder Uncle Robbie Thorpe and Sydney-based lawyer Daniel Taylor have teamed up again on a legal action, this time concerning the legal right to speak about the implications that international law has in regard to Israel’s occupation of the...
A Rise in Nitazene Overdoses Requires Fixed Site Pill Testing and Take-Home Naloxone
The Australian Federal Police issued a warning on Wednesday about the worrying trend in a relatively new type of street drug, a group of synthetic opioids known as nitazenes, being increasingly detected at the border, as well as being available...
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...
