The NSW Offence of Possess Equipment to Produce Identification Information
New South Wales Police Financial Crimes Squad detectives charged two men with four counts each of possess equipment to produce identification information on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, following Strike Force Dawport being established in April 2026, to investigate a rise...
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The Digital Duty of Care: Albanese’s Sweeping Future Risk Online Content Control Regime
The Albanese government’s Digital Duty of Care proposal now before federal parliament is said to be about protecting average Australians from online harms - think, child pornography or the incitement to acts of terrorism. And the proposed regime is a...
Stop Cooking the River: SCRAP’s Paddy Gibson on Preventing the Cook River Datacentre
Goolay’yari, or the Cooks River, has weaved its way across Gadigal, Wangal, Bidjigal and Gamegal land for centuries, and today, it’s nestled between Sydney’s inner west suburbs. Indeed, developers Stockland and John Boyd Properties consider the site so ideal, that...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 12 to 18 October 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Three Years Too Long: Sydney Marks Grim Anniversary of Ongoing Gaza Genocide Thousands gathered in Sydney’s Hyde Park to call for an end to the...
Dark Enlightenment: The Authoritarian Trajectory Being Taken by Tech Giants
Since key Silicon Valley billionaire tech bros lined up behind Donald Trump for his second coming inauguration to the US presidency on 20 January 2025, it’s become clear that these increasingly influential figures aren’t beacons of democratic values, but their...
Greens Seek to Prohibit NSW Police from Using Sniffer Dogs in Public Places
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann just tabled a bill to end the scourge that is the warrantless use of drug detection dogs in public places by NSW police. These laws come at a time when the dogs have...
Australia’s Top Cop’s Priorities: AI Policing, Foreign Interferers and the Dural Caravan Hoaxer
AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett last week gave multiple interviews to mainstream media outlets to mark her one-year anniversary and raise key priorities for the law enforcement agency. The top cop is continuing to prioritise the capture of the mastermind behind...
US Military to Livestream Execution of Former US Major by Firing Squad
US secretary of war Pete Hegeseth confirmed, during a 7 October 2026 interview aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, that former US Army Major Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad, and this will be livestreamed globally. US president Donald Trump...
Two Men Charged with Sexually Assaulting Three Women Over 7 Years
The New South Wales Police Force reports that a second man has been charged over allegations of sexually abusing three women on the Central Coast over a seven-year period. Detectives attached to Tuggerah Lakes Police District established Strike Force Zetter...
The Offence of Conspiracy to Murder in New South Wales
Detectives from New South Wales Police Taskforce Falcon have arrested and charged a woman over conspiracy to murder, in relation to a 2025 plot to kill a prominent western Sydney organised crime figure. The alleged plan was foiled after a...
