Prosecution Appeals Against Judge’s Decision to Allow Killer Cop to Avoid Prison
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) will file an appeal against the inadequacy of the sentence imposed on a police officer who avoided a prison sentence despite being convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering a 95-year old...
Reoccupying Illegally Acquired Wiradjuri Country: An Interview with Uncle Paul Towney
Wiradjuri elder Paul Towney began occupying a parcel of land of over 2,000 acres in size said to be owned by Charles Sturt University in the NSW regional town of Orange, as he came to understand that when that land...
Calls for Federal Intervention as States and Territories Crackdown on Youth Crime
The Crisafulli government came to power in Queensland in October 2024 with its key policy initiative being “adult crime, adult time”, which is a regime that sees kids as young as 10, who commit certain serious criminal offences facing “adult...
Reforms Recommended by the NSW Drug Summit Are Long Overdue
The 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit report was released on 3 April 2025. It recommends 56 priority actions are taken, including some prominent long-term drug law reforms, like enacting a drug driving defence for users of medicinal cannabis, the...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 31 March to 6 April 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sentencing Proceedings in New South Wales: The Parity Principle The parity principle dictates that similar penalties should generally be imposed where the crime and culpability...
Will an Expansionist Trump Turn His Colonial Gaze Towards Australia?
As the nation heads to the ballot on 3 May 2025, Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) has suggested to the Australian constituency that as it heads to the vote “the spectre of rabid, fanatical” and indeed, expansionist US president Donald Trump...
Zionist Federation Lodges Federal Court Complaint Against Journalist Mary Kostakidis
The Zionist Federation of Australia filed a legal action against renowned Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis with the Federal Court of Australia last Monday, in respect of a complaint it first raised with the Australian Human Rights Commission in July 2024...
Ongoing Forced Aboriginal Child Removals in WA Could Result in Genocide Prosecution
The number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Western Australia has dramatically escalated over the last two decades. In 2003, there were 570 First Nations kids in WA state care, which comprised 35 percent of all children in such...
AUKUS: The Fleecing of the Australian Public for US Strategic Interests
In its recent report into the AUKUS pact and its increasingly fabled Australian-owned nuclear-powered submarines (SSN), Australians for War Powers Reform (AWPR) asserts that the “AUKUS pact has become a textbook example of how to disenfranchise the community, providing almost...
Sydney Trans Community Remains Visible in Defiance of Local and US Existential Threats
Much of Sydney’s transgender community and its supporters gathered on Gadigal land in Newtown’s Pride Square last Sunday, for the Pride in Protest hosted Trans Day of Visibility rally 2025. And as speaker after speaker took the microphone, the message...
