Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 18 to 24 August 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Supreme Court Judgment Permitting the Sydney Harbour Bridge March for Humanity to Proceed The court permitted the March for Humanity on the basis that this...
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Albanese Must Back His Words with Action by Halting the Supply of Australian F-35 Parts to Israel
As tensions between Australia and Israel rise, with Canberra revoking the visa of an Israeli extremist, Tel Aviv turfing out two Australian representatives to the Palestinian Authority in response, and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu then calling our PM “weak”,...
Spike in Prohibited Drug Use and Associated Crime Intensifies Calls for Legalisation
The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission has yet again consulted the nation’s sewage to find that its people had consumed more than 22.2 tonnes of crystal meth, cocaine, heroin and MDMA over the 12 months to August 2024, which is the...
Wanted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu Has Called Our Prime Minister “Weak”
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the smiling face of the force perpetrating the Gaza genocide, an atrocity so deplorable that the edifice of international law has come tumbling down due to its gravity, and he’s called Australian PM Anthony...
Envoy’s Antisemitism Plan is Manifestly Lacking in Substance
Following her 4 July 2025 appearance before the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into Antisemitism in the state, antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal released her Plan to Combat Antisemitism on the 10th of that month, and in light of this, committee...
Rex Patrick on Why National Archives Denials Are Preventing Reconciling with Timor-Leste: Interview
Former Australian Senator Rex Patrick is to appeal a decision of the National Archives of Australia to the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), as the NAA denied his 1 January 2025 request for 2004 documents “that relate to ASIS intelligence collection...
Whistleblowers Remain Unprotected as Government Fails to Implement Promised Reforms
As Australian musicologist Professor Peter Tregear testified during a 12 August 2025 Senate inquiry hearing into governance at universities, and specifically in respect to his time as head of the Australian National University (ANU) School of Music, he made clear...
NSW Government Tightens Working With Children Checks
The New South Wales government is enacting laws which aim to prevent individuals who are seen as posing a risk to the safety of children from working in child-related employment. The enabling law - known as the Child Protection (Working...
Government Claims Attorney General Can’t Reverse Decision to Extradite Dan Duggan
Former Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus signed off on the process of Washington’s attempt to extradite Australian citizen Daniel Duggan in late 2022, and he provided the final greenlight last December, following the NSW Local Court having approved extradition. Yet,...
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...