Illicit Drug Use Is Spiking, Yet NSW Authorities Continue Deadly and Performative Approach
The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program released its latest figures for the period December 2024 to October 2025, and in its ninth year, it found there has been a significant spike in illicit drug use in this country, in terms...
Criminal Offences Relating to Possessing, Supplying or Making Explosives in NSW
Police officers conducted a raid at a residence on Wiradjuri land on Rockley Street in Perthville, on the New South Wales Central Tablelands, that uncovered a clandestine laboratory and bomb-manufacturing site at 9 am on Wednesday, 20 May 2026. A...
Foreign Minister Finally Acknowledges Third Cohort of Australians Kidnapped by Israel
Eleven Australians kidnapped off the high seas near Cyprus by Israeli forces have now been released after days of deprivation and psychological and physical torture. This is the third cohort of Australians taken hostage and brutalised by Tel Aviv since...
The Commonwealth Offence of Slavery in Australia
Four ISIS-connected Australian women and nine children returned to Australia on 7 May 2026, after years of languishing in a Syrian refugee camp. And as authorities had promised, Australian federal police officers arrested, charged and remanded three of the adult...
The Offence of ‘Home Invasion’: Aggravated Break and Enter to Commit Serious Indictable Offence
A 15-year-old boy from southwestern Sydney gained entry into a house located on Cabrogal land on Longfield Street in Cabramatta at around 6.15 pm on 6 May 2026, and he had no permission to do so. The teenager then grabbed...
Albanese Remains Silent on Australians Kidnapped and Tortured by Israel
Six Australian citizens sitting in boats in international waters close by the coast of Crete, a Greek island, were apprehended at semiautomatic gunpoint and taken hostage by Israeli soldiers on 30 April 2026. The Australians were then detained on a...
The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW
A little after 3pm on Sunday, 3 March 2026, New South Wales Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers were patrolling on Bundjalung land in the northeastern New South Wales town of Tweed Heads, when they were alerted to a...
Racism and Hate Crimes Fuel the National Debate for Some, But Not Others
The heckling of Aboriginal army veterans and presenters at Anzac Day 2026 dawn services spread this year. The New York Times noted as much. This was in the same manner in which racism against First Peoples has risen in many...
Lawless Israel Kidnaps Six Australians from Global Sumud Flotilla on the High Seas
Zack Schofield, an Australian citizen, reported over social media from a boat sailing in international waters west of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea at around 8 am Sydney time on 30 April 2026, that those onboard were likely to soon...
“Just Too Absurd”: Socialist Alliance’s Alex Bainbridge on His Arrest for Using a Political Slogan
Twenty protesters were arrested by Queensland police at the Not Our Law rally in Magan-djin-Brisbane on 18 April 2026, for the crime of either displaying or speaking the currently illegal phrase “From the River to the Sea”. The outcome was...
