Israel Is Brazenly Committing International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit
In the final days of last week, apartheid Israel cut the internet and all communications in the Gaza Strip, where it’s perpetrating a 20-month-long extermination program against the Palestinian civilians living in the region, while it too laid siege to...
Government Prioritises Industry Over People: Disrupt Burrup Hub on the North West Shelf Approval
A massive protest took place outside the District Court of Western Australia last Friday, as Disrupt Burrup Hub members, Gerard Mazza, Tahlia Stolarski and Jesse Noakes, were set to be charged in relation to an April 2023 nonviolent direct action,...
Gomeroi Ready to Fight Santos Gas Project Any Way Possible, Says Elder Maria “Polly” Cutmore
The National Native Title Tribunal released its final decision on whether the New South Wales government can lease Gomeroi Country to Australian fossil fuel giant Santos for coal seam gas purposes on 19 May 2025, greenlighting the process again, after...
Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua: Interview with ULMWP’s Benny Wenda
Following his re-election as Australian PM Anthony Albanese paid a visit to relatively new Indonesia president Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta, with foreign minister Penny Wong and home affairs minister Tony Burke in tow. This is a rite of passage for...
“Erasure as Solidarity”: Black Peoples Union’s Keiran Stewart-Assheton on Settler Left Paradigms
Founded on this continent in 2022, the Black Peoples Union is an Indigenous political organisation that’s “working towards building a pan-Aboriginal movement in Australia, so that we can fight for our self-determination and our sovereignty”. But due to the BPU’s...
Resisting the Suppression of Western Colonial Crimes: Interview with Activist Stephen Langford
On 8 May 2025, New South Wales District Court Judge Christine Mendes quashed the Local Court conviction of Sydney activist Stephen Langford for the offence of intentional or reckless damage or destruction to property, after finding that his act of...
“While Governments Fail to, We Will Continue to Act”: Interview With Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s James Godfrey
Of the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, about half a million are facing imminent death by starvation, as part of a famine being produced by Israel, according to Al Jazeera. At the beginning of the Gaza genocide, that masthead used...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 5 to 11 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Despite Falling Crime Rates, Police Are Criminally Charging More People Than Ever Before Despite NSW crimes rates falling for decades, heavy-handed policing has ensured courts...
Australia’s Arms Exports System Is a Loose Free-for-All: Interview with Renegade Activists Jacob & Mercedes
Australian arms exports became a front and centre issue in October 2023, on outbreak of the Gaza genocide, and regardless of the fact that former Palestine stalwarts PM Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong were reimaging the mass murder...
Challenging the Power to Extinguish Protest Across Sydney: Interview with Palestine Action Group’s Josh Lees
The Palestine Action Group launched a legal challenge against one of the new antiprotest laws that the Minns government rushed through New South Wales parliament as part of a package of bills in February 2025, which were said to be...
