New LGBTIQ Hate Crime Offences: A Band Aid Solution to a Much Deeper Problem
Following an ABC report on ISIS-inspired attacks on gay and bisexual teens in Greater Sydney, which was published during Mardi Gras, the Minns government has this week come to the table with the solution it spruiked last month, which was...
Offences Relating to Credit and Debit Card Theft and Fraud in NSW
The New South Wales Police Force has issued a public warning about a spate of crimes involving assailants approaching elderly people before stealing and illegally using their debit or credit cards. The incidents are alleged to have occurred across several...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 March 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Drug Offence Appeal Highlights Difficulties in Establishing Parity in Sentencing The defendant took a stand, appealing his sentence for being harsher than his co-offender’s. Was...
The Australian Polity’s Descent into the Absurd Is a Sign of Rising Authoritarianism
Two protesters were arrested in Magan-djin-Brisbane on 11 March 2026, for the completely absurd crime of publicly using the just prohibited slogan, “from the river to the sea”. A 33-year-old male is now facing 2 years in prison for using...
The Offence of Drug Driving in New South Wales
The New South Police Force carried out one of its trademark statewide drink and drug driving blitzes from 12 am on Thursday, 12 February, to 4 am on Sunday, 15 February 2026. Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers) led to...
Deepfake Image and Audio-Based Intimate Image Offences in New South Wales
New intimate deepfake criminal offences came into effect in New South Wales On 16 February 2026, which expand preexisting intimate adult images offences to encompass compromising audio content and create a new offence of altering images or audio or using...
Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Laws that Suppress Free Speech
University of Sydney constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey expressed to the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into measures that exist to combat rising far-right extremism on 19 February 2026, that she’s concerned that the plethora of laws that have been enacted...
Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations
The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man...
The Offence of Impersonating a Police Officer in New South Wales
A 58-year-old woman was walking on Gadigal land down Arnold Lane, in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills at around 11.45 am on 13 February 2026, when a man, whom she did not know, stopped her in the alleyway...
Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent
The 31-year-old white Australian man who tossed a homemade bomb that failed to go off into the crowd at the First Nations Invasion Day rally in Boorloo-Perth was charged with engaging in an act of terrorism on 5 February 2026....
