Sexual Touching in New South Wales: Offences, Penalties and Legal Defences
New South Wales Police has reported that a man apprehended by officers from the North West High Visibility Policing Unit on Dharug land in the western Sydney suburb Lethbridge Park at 6.20 pm last Saturday night, 22 August 2026, over...
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NSW Legislates Medicinal Cannabis Driving Defence, as Queensland Implements Zero Tolerance
In terms of drug driving laws, the New South Wales government is now centre stage due to its proposed and enlightened reforms that seek to ensure users of legal medicinal cannabis aren’t disqualified from driving for simply taking their medicine,...
Private School Boys Accused of Sexually Assaulting 14-Year-Old Girl in Bondi
Three teenage boys are facing court after being accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a Bondi laneway. The boys, one aged 13 and two aged 14, were arrested after police executed a series of search warrants across the...
McBride Is Out and About, After the Attorney General Released the Whistleblower on Parole
Australian Defence Force whistleblower David McBride was released from prison on Thursday, 13 August 2026, after serving a 2 year and 3 month non-parole period in respect of criminal offences perpetrated when leaking classified documents to the ABC that revealed...
NSW Police Watchdog Directs that Drug Dogs Raids During Pride Month Be Reinvestigated
The state’s law enforcement watchdog has directed the New South Wales Police Force to reopen its inquiry into a mid-June 2026 spate of drug dog raids upon LGBTIQA+ nightclubs located on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct, right in...
Woman Faces String of Charges Over Bus Stop Crash
A woman has been refused bail after being charged with a series of alleged traffic and criminal offences following an incident in Sydney’s Lower North Shore that police say began with a vehicle crashing into a bus stop before escalating...
AFP Investigates Arson Attack on Weapons Manufacturer as an Act of Terrorism
The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team announced on 5 August 2026 that it is investigating an arson and graffiti attack that targeted the Lovitt Technologies facility located on Wurendjeri land in the northeastern Melbourne suburb of Greensborough in July 2025,...
NSW Police Claim Success in Warrantless Sydney-to-Newcastle Rail Blitz
Police have arrested and charged 24 people with a total of 27 criminal offences after a three-day operation targeting crime across the Sydney to Newcastle rail corridor, in a reminder that being stopped for something as minor as an unpaid...
Answers Sought Over Why Charges Haven’t Been Laid Over Kumanjayi White’s Custody Death
The family of deceased man Kumanjayi White has this week initiated legal proceedings in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to ascertain which NT police employee decided not to press charges against two officers, who’d wrestled the 24-year-old Warlpiri man with...
NSW Police to Be Given Powers to Access and Download Phone Content on the Beat
The Minns government is set to introduce new laws into New South Wales parliament, so that the power NSW police has to require people to provide access to their digital devices, in order to a facilitate scan and download of...
