Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 11 to 17 August 2025

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

Courts Must Consider Relevant Financial Burden When Sentencing for Fraud Offences

The appeal court found that a judge was in error by not considering the defendant’s burden of debt which contributed to the offending.

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“We Are Way Out of Time”: Women from XR Victoria Protesting for Two Years Warn Social Collapse Imminent

“We have to draw down carbon and solve the problems we have started… [but] we have a government that just wants to approve new coal and gas”.

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NSW Police Officer’s Casual Assault on First Nations Woman Highlights Systemic Issue

Footage of police officers assaulting yet another First Nations person has gone viral on social media.

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NT Law-and-Order Drive Forbodes Landgrab, Says Justice Not Jails Stephen Enciso

The Territory’s law-and-order drive targeting Aboriginal people is contributing to “trauma, poverty and criminalisation” and could lead to the takeover of property.

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The Disconnect Between the Antisemitism Moral Panic and Melbourne’s Nazis on Parade

While targeting young Muslims over a supposed ‘antisemitism crisis’, police are turning a blind eye to blatant antisemitism by white, self-proclaimed neo-Nazis.

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Australian Governments Are Increasingly Intent on Imprisoning Children

Despite evidence that diversionary programs greatly benefit the community, governments across the nation are passing laws that ensure kids are trapped in the cycle of crime.

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Albanese’s Gaza Recipe: Add a Bit of Recognition and Continue with the Two-Way Arms Trade

The PM announced that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state, but refuses to sanction Israel and continues to supply it with the arms used to commit war crimes.

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Envoy Pressures Australia to Adopt a Fraudulent Antisemitism Definition

The definition recommended by the antisemitism envoy encompasses criticism of the atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli state.

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