School Employee Charged with Possessing Child Abuse and Animal Abuse Material
Detectives from the New South Wales Police Sex Crimes Squad have charged a man employed at a school with a string of alleged child abuse material and animal abuse material offences, as part of the ongoing Strike Force Trawler investigation....
US Calls on Australia to Join Coalition Against Global “Far-Left Terrorism”
During his opening address at the 16 July 2026 Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, a Washington DC meeting that involved representatives from more than 65 nations, including Australia, US secretary of state Marco Rubio made certain that the...
The Offence of Child Abduction in New South Wales
A New South Wales woman was sentenced to two years prison time in March 2025, over having abducted her own child from a park on Dharawal land in the coastal city of Wollongong in December 2022. The woman had taken...
Impact of Youth on Moral Culpability Must Be Considered in Sentencing
Ali Qadir arranged to meet Karim Shehade at an address in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Yagoona at around 11 pm on 14 October 2023, in order to buy a car that the latter had listed on Facebook Marketplace for...
Woman Charged Over Alleged $3 Million Clandestine Lab Sourcing Role
A 59-year-old woman has been refused bail after being arrested by State Crime Command detectives and charged for her alleged involvement in a $3 million drug manufacturing syndicate operating in the Port Stephens area. The arrest follows a long-running investigation...
Applying Force After Restraint Is the NSW Policing Way, Despite Potential Fatalities
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson recently posted footage of a police officer senselessly punching a civilian. She describes the victim as being “face down on the ground already restrained and unarmed”, yet an officer is seen to repeatedly...
Pushback Against Cannabis Driving Defence Involves Parochial View of Medicine
The pushback against the Minns government’s proposal to enact a statutory defence so medicinal cannabis users who drive have a legitimate means to avoid a charge of drug driving in New South Wales, is not only based on misinformation, but...
AFP’s Most Wanted Are Those Behind “Fabricated” Antisemitic “Terrorism Plot”
Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett last week listed a number of figures on her agency’s most wanted list, which include Sayit Akca, the man allegedly behind the January 2025 Dural caravan bomb hoax on Dharug land, as well as...
The Offence of Possessing an Encrypted Device to Facilitate Criminal Activity in NSW
Strike Force Harskamp has been investigating an alleged organised crime network’s suspected illicit trade in the supply of dedicated encrypted criminal communication devices (DECCDs). DECCDs are mobile devices that have been specifically altered to provide secure encrypted communications between criminals...
The Offence of Animal Sexual Abuse in New South Wales
New South Wales man Joel Kerin, then 30, pleaded guilty to four counts of bestiality in Bega Local Court in October 2024. But since March 2026, this crime has been modernised and is now known as the offence of animal...
