Failure of Senior Labor Staffers to Attend Dural Caravan Inquiry Speaks Volumes
The members of a New South Wales upper house inquiry into how much premier Chris Minns and the state police minister knew regarding police suspicions that an explosive-laden caravan located on a Dural property was a “setup” were stunned on...
Courts Must Assess Individual Moral Culpability in Cases of Joint Criminal Enterprise
A Toyota Land Cruiser was stolen from electronics store Karera in the New South Wales Central Coast town of Tuggerah in mid-October 2020. At 9 am on 15 October 2020, Adam Jones, the son of a Karera manager, spotted the...
Bail Centralisation and the Virtual Bail Court: NSW Staggers into a Reform Overreach
The NSW Government is about to introduce a new bail regime where all of those who are charged with a fresh offence have their first appearance via AVL or telephone - centralised and staffed in Sydney. This is part of...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 June 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges 176 people were arrested and 326 charges laid during a four-day police...
NSW Supreme Court Hears Challenge Against Unjustified Anti-Protest Laws
Appearing before the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday, 19 June 2025, Sydney activist Josh Less and his formidable legal team seem to have located a chink in the new antiprotest laws that the Minns government recently passed during a flurry...
Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States
The date has been set for the appeal against the extradition of Australian citizen Daniel Duggan to the United States over highly dubious accusations regarding flight training in South Africa. Dan is set challenge his extradition to the Federal Court...
Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur
A Chinese woman was violently attacked by a group of seven non-Asian teenagers, aged between 11 and 16, on Gadigal land in the Sydney eastern suburb of Eastgardens within the grounds of her apartment block on 21 May 2025. And...
“The Creeping Erasure of Our Identity in Broome”: Interview with Djukun Nation’s Jaala Ozies
The Yawuru and Djukun peoples are jointly recognised as the native title holders in Jirr-Ngin-Ngan, which is also known as the town of Broome, and is located in the northwestern Kimberley region of Western Australia. This native title claim, known...
Israel Is Brazenly Committing International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit
In the final days of last week, apartheid Israel cut the internet and all communications in the Gaza Strip, where it’s perpetrating a 20-month-long extermination program against the Palestinian civilians living in the region, while it too laid siege to...
The Offence of Aggravated Sexual Assault in Company in NSW
Two teenagers and two young adults have been charged with sexual offences after what the New South Wales Police Force has described as a lengthy and violent attack against a 17-year-old girl in Sydney’s south-west in December 2024. The Allegations...
