Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, marked 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its 339 recommendations on how to curb the crisis. Yet, all these years on, and it’s only worsening with 630 First Peoples...
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Corrective Services NSW Is Surveilling Inmates’ Calls to MPs to Silence Complaints
Corrective Services New South Wales is surveilling privileged calls between inmates and members of parliament, while the government has also tried to whittle away at the confidentiality of calls between inmates and lawyers. And the reason is clear, corrections wants...
The War Crime of Murder: A Commonwealth Offence
Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested on 7 April 2026, on Dharawal land at Sydney’s domestic airport. The former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) corporal has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder, and...
NSW Government Refuses Free Public Transport Despite Rising Unaffordability
On Monday afternoon, 13 April 2026, the US Trump administration was hours away from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, while a week prior, Washington’s focus had been opening it, and with the cost of oil soaring to over $100 a...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 April 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Retrial Ordered for Drug Importation Case as Judge Incorrectly Explained Law to Jury The judge incorrectly explained the law to the jury. Click here to...
NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry
Following thousands of New South Wales police officers brutalising countless participants at the 9 February 2026 protest against the official state visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, NSW police is now dawn raiding civilian demonstrators over their actions during this...
Indonesian Police Go on Killing Spree, as Crackdown Escalates in West Papua
Members of the occupying Indonesian police went on a murderous rampage in the West Papuan village of Moanemani, located in Dogiyai regency at around 10 am on 31 March 2026, which involved officers firing randomly into a local marketplace, prior...
Apartheid Israel Is Invading and Colonising Southern Lebanon in Plain Sight
US president Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure and further to wipe out its entire civilisation on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, due to a Pakistan-brokered two week ceasefire. But despite this, Israel, Washington’s partner...
Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence
Australian politicians are to receive heightened law enforcement and security protections, due to an increasingly fraught domestic security environment that has seen at least ten people charged with making violent threats towards politicians since September 2025, which has included neo-Nazis...
Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Faces Multiple Charges of the War Crime of Murder
Australia’s most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested by Australian federal police on Gadigal land, as he arrived by plane at Sydney’s domestic airport on Tuesday, 3 April 2026. The 47-year-old former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) officer was...
