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...
Trump Proposes to Deport Pro-Palestinians to Appease Israel. Could It Happen Here?
In amongst its authoritarian grab for power, its drive to disempower minorities and to establish white supremacy, the US Trump administration has commenced a targeted campaign against foreign pro-Palestinian students and academics, who had been outspoken against Israel’s genocide in...
Sydney Pro-Palestinians Call Out Pitiful Major Party Form on Ongoing Gaza Genocide
As they have so many times over the last 18 months, pro-Palestinians from across Greater Sydney gathered on Gadigal land in the city’s Hyde Park to call for an end to the Israeli-perpetrated genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza, and...
Sentence for Officer Who Killed Great-Grandmother by Taser Is Manifestly Inadequate
The former police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally tasering 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland at an aged care facility in southern New South Wales has been given a non-custodial sentence, with many expressing the view that the penalty is far...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 24 to 30 March 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Next in Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Crosshairs: Law Firms and Lawyers Trump’s executive order to crush law firms and revoke clearances for lawyers not aligned with...
The Dangers of Criminalising Criticism of Israel: Interview with Muslim Legal Network’s Dr Oz Susler
Universities Australia announced on 27 February that all of its 39 member universities nationwide have agreed to adopt a definition of antisemitism “that aligns closely with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition”, which has a controversial reputation as it...
The Ever-Increasingly and Unfounded Encroachments of Policing Powers in Public Places
Victorian premier Jacinta Allan announced a massive expansion of random knife search powers in her state on 13 March, as part of a broader youth crime crackdown that’s underway, which involves a 2009 law that allows Victoria police to approach...
NSW Greens to Introduce Human Rights Act for NSW
New South Wales Greens human rights spokesperson Jenny Leong gave notice on 19 March that she’ll soon be introducing a Human Rights Bill into NSW parliament, which will seek to uphold the rights of NSW citizens and residents under state...
Schoolyard Assault Highlights Trend Towards Violence in Youth Culture
A recent case involving the arrest of a woman and two young girls over the alleged attempted assault of a student and brutal assault of two staff members at a school in Northern New South Wales exemplifies a disturbing trend...
NSW Court Registry Data Breach Threatens to Further Erode Confidence in Justice System
A major breach of the New South Wales courts database has raised questions about how and why thousands of documents containing sensitive personal information about defendants, complainants and witnesses have been accessed through what are meant to be secure servers,...
