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...
AUKUS Nations Are Increasingly Framing Leftwing Activists as Terrorists
The charging of more than a dozen leftwing protesters with terrorism offences in the United States and the sentencing of eight of them to a combined 450 years’ imprisonment on 23 June 2026, marked a significant step in the shift...
Israel Continues the Targeted Genocidal Murder of Palestinian Children
The United Nations-established independent commission that published a 2025 report confirming that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza last week released a new report detailing that Israel has been intentional killing Palestinian children, which is a deliberate tactic being employed...
The Offence of Aiding or Abetting the Suicide of Another in NSW
A former New South Wales police officer recently failed in his attempt to appeal his sentence over a conviction of having aided or abetted the suicide of another, as Phillip Baldwin had successfully assisted his wife, Joanne, in taking her...