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Federal Government’s Antisemitism Hate Bill Threatens to Further Erode Civil Liberties

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Federal parliament is convening for special sitting days on 19 and 20 January 2026, with the aim of passing new hate crime laws and gun measures contained in an omnibus bill, which taken together with a swag of other post-Bondi...
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Inmate Appeals Refusal to Release Him via Writ of Habeas Corpus

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Elefterios “Terry” Fantakis is set to appeal the 2 September 2025 decision of then NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Ian Harrison to deny a writ of habeas corpus directing the Macquarie Correctional Centre governor to bring Fantakis before the...

The Offence of Engaging in Acts of Child Prostitution in New South Wales

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Most people in New South Wales would recognise Jeffrey Epstein and associate the deceased United States citizen with being a child sex offender, involved in a smorgasbord of criminal offences. Yet, the multimillionaire financier was only ever convicted on two...

NSW Police Fatally Shoot Yet Another Civilian During a Mental Health Callout  

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New South Wales police shot and killed a 49-year-old man on Darkinjung land in the state’s Central Coast town of Springfield at 3.30 pm on Wednesday, 7 January 2026, after a mental health check turned into a siege situation. This...

NSW Government’s Proposal to Criminalise the Public Display of Political Slogans Is Concerning

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A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into prohibiting slogans that incite hatred is accepting public submissions until Monday, 12 January 2026. This inquiry is further continuing the Minns government’s yearlong addiction to kneejerk legislating primarily to respond to pro-Palestine/anti-Gaza genocide...

Sydney Man Dies After Being Pepper Sprayed by Police

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A man has died in hospital, after being sprayed in the face with OC (oleoresin capsicum) or pepper spray as New South Wales police officers attempted to arrest him in relation to a domestic violence callout. The 52-year-old man suffered...

The Criminal Offence of Supplying a Prohibited Drug in New South Wales

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At 5pm on Wednesday, 31 December 2025, NSW police officers from the New England Police District, executed a search warrant on Gomeroi land at a property on Hall Street, in the small New South Wales town of Gilgai. This raid...

Fallout from Gaza Genocide Used to Justify Increasingly Repressive Regime in NSW

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The United Nations recognised Israel is perpetrating genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza in September 2025, despite sustained denials by Israel and its allies. The illegal mass murder and attempts to hide it have too caused broad social upheaval, rising...

Dan Duggan Has Just Spent His Fourth Holiday Season in Prison Without Charge

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Australian citizen Dan Duggan has just spent his fourth Christmas and New Year detained in a New South Wales prison at the behest of a United States extradition request that relates to an indictment, charging him with conspiring to export...

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

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New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this...
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