Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 June 2026

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:

Tickle, Giggle and Bathroom Shenanigans: The Great Toilet Debate

Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern explains the absurdity of the public outrage arising from the recent federal court judgment regarding bathroom use and gender.

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Serving Parole Doesn’t Stop a Court from Imposing a Concurrent Term for a New Offence

A court is permitted to impose a sentence for a new offence that is “wholly subsumed within the parole period of the existing sentence of imprisonment”.

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Action for Public Housing’s Rachel Evans Explains the Growing Support for Save Waterloo Encampment

“NSW governments have been tearing down public housing, then handing over the land to developers, free-of-charge, to build new private housing estates”.

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The Offence of Using a Carriage Service to Make a Hoax Threat in Australia

A 23-year-old woman is facing court for allegedly making 13 bomb threats against NSW schools between March and May this year.

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Growing Calls to Drop the Criminal Charges Brought Against Anti-Herzog Protesters

Civil Society groups are calling on authorities to withdraw criminal charges brought against those brutalised by police for defying the illegal protest ban.

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One Nation’s Surge to Number One Involves More Than Just Disaffected Voters

The sharp increase in support for the party is more aligned with the rise in white nationalism and antiimmigration sentiment than general voter disaffection.

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Two Degrees of Interoperability Between the ADF and the IDF Could Soon Become One

The law before the US congress could see our own defence force working hand-in-hand with Israel’s.

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