Landlords to Face Prison for Permitting Use of Premises for Illegal Vape or Tobacco Sales
The New South Wales government introduced new laws which could see commercial property owners facing a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison and/or a fine of up to $165,000 for knowingly permitting a tenant to supply illicit tobacco and/or...
The Criminal Offence of Dishonestly Obtaining Financial Advantage by Deception in NSW
Detectives from the New South Wales Police Financial Crime Squad arrested and charged a bank employee last Friday, 7 November 2025, in relation to an alleged multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate that was operating across Gadigal, Dharug and Dharawal...
NSW Government Rejects Drug Law Reform Sought by the Community
The NSW Labor Carr government set the precedent for visionary drug law reform delivered by a state government at risk of unpopular civil society response, because it was of most benefit to the people of NSW in 1999. Yet, with...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Peeping or Prying in New South Wales
New South Wales police arrested 64-year-old Canterbury-Bankstown man Bilaal Ahmed on Friday, 31 October 2025, following a number of peeping or prying incidents. The arrest was made under a police operation labelled Strike Force Tuclin, which was established in August...
Reflections on the Squibbing of the NSW Government Drug Summit Response
We were promised the world and given a shit sandwich. And now there will be no more meaningful drug law reform in NSW in my lifetime. This was a once in every few decades opportunity. It has been lost. The...
NSW to Review Presumption that Children Cannot Be Guilty of Criminal Offences
The New South Wales Attorney-General has commissioned a review tasked with determining whether a legal doctrine - known as doli incapax – which presumes children aged between 10 and 14 years are incapable of forming the mental component of criminal...
Mossad Claims Iranian Guards Behind Bondi Deli Attack, Despite NSW Police Refuting This
Mossad has just identified an Iranian man it considers was the individual behind one of the so-called antisemitic incidents in New South Wales over the summer. Such incidents involved a series of firebombings and other criminal offences that together formed...
The Offence of Recklessly Causing Grievous Bodily Harm in NSW
The senior New South Wales police officer who punched legal observer Hannah Thomas in the right eye, during a 27 June 2025 antigenocide protest on Bidjigal land outside the SEC Plating premises in the Sydney suburb of Belmore, has been...
Antisemitism Moral Panic Used to Introduce New Laws Against State Sponsored Terrorism
Ever since former Liberal leader Peter Dutton took off his Home Affairs cap in 2021 and the Albanese government came to office in 2022, it’s appeared the government’s two-decade-long terrorism-law-enacting bonanza had come to an end. But with the recent...
NT Chief Minister Takes Aim at Trans Women Inmates: Interview with Justice Not Jails Tony Sinni
Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro has again been sowing social division, as when appearing on Mix 1049 to speak with host Katie Woolf on Monday 13 October 2025, the Country Liberal leader clarified that transgender women shouldn’t be held...
