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Indonesian Police Go on Killing Spree, as Crackdown Escalates in West Papua

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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...

Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence

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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

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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...

Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder

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Israel has just passed a law permitting the state to execute Palestinians who commit deadly attacks by hanging. The law allows the death penalty only to be applied to Palestinians, or “Israeli Arabs”, as the state refers to them, but...

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

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New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during Question Time on 25 March 2026, as she attempted to provide NSW premier Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality that...

The Offence of Assaulting a Police Officer in New South Wales

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A 27-year-old woman was arrested on Gadigal land at her Potts Point residence on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, as part of the ongoing investigations of Strike Force Laine, which is the New South Wales Police Force probe into the participants...

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

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Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally...

The Offence of Stealing a Motor Vehicle, Vessel or Trailer in NSW

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The New South Wales Police Force put out an appeal for information about a string of recent vehicle thefts that are alleged to have taken place on Wiradjuri land in the western New South Wales town of Warren. The initial...

Renewed Calls to Ban Chokeholds Highlights the Colonial Nature of Australian Policing

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The choking to death of 27-year-old Gunggari man Steven Lee Nixon-McKeller by Queensland police in 2021 is being given fresh attention as a result of his mother, Dr Raylene Nixon, having launched a campaign to have chokeholds banned in that...

Will Australian Blindness Towards Rising Domestic White Terrorism Continue?

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Two white Australian men were recently charged with terrorism offences in Western Australia. This marks a significant shift in how authorities are willing to categorise white nationalist violence, and this may be seismic, depending on not only the outcomes of...
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