“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches
Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and...
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Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian
The Federal Court has denied Australian citizen Dan Duggan’s appeal of former attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ 2024 decision to greenlight his extradition to the US on 2017 charges alleging he illegally trained Chinese military pilots. And while it’s understood the...
The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism
Federal Liberal “leader” Angus Taylor delivered a despicably racist, ethnonationalist migration policy speech on Tuesday, 14 April 2026. This desperate politician, whose status as opposition leader is in freefall, demonised what’s dubbed “our migrant community”, he called for immigration based...
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...
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...
