The Law, Defences and Penalties for Affray in New South Wales
New South Wales Police are appealing for the public’s help to identify and locate a man they believe may be able to assist in their investigations into a brawl that occurred at a Western Sydney hotel last year. According to...
Report Condemns Heavy-Handed Response to COVID and Calls for Fines to Be Dropped
A Redfern Legal Centre-led challenge to three COVID fines issued by NSW police, resulted in the NSW Supreme Court finding in November that the infringement notices were invalid as they weren’t in accord with the Fines Act 1996 (NSW), which requires the...
Youth Detainees Riot at WA’s Notorious Banksia Hill Youth Prison on NYE
Young inmates at Perth’s Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre rioted on New Year’s Eve, setting fire to two of the facility’s buildings. Close to two dozen of the centre’s prisoners, who are generally aged between 10 and 17 years old, sat...
The Offence of Furious Driving in New South Wales
A man has been charged with a string of traffic offences after a head-on collision with a police vehicle south of Sydney. According to police, at around 1.10am on Saturday, 31 December 2022, highway patrol officers were conducting stationary random...
What is ‘Wounding’ in the New South Wales Criminal Law?
Three teenagers have been charged for allegedly assaulting another teen shortly after the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day. It is alleged that the assailants, two of whom are aged 17 years and one 16, acted in company to...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Possessing an Unregistered Firearm in New South Wales
A man is facing a string of criminal charges after a road on a unit in Sydney’s west allegedly uncovered a stash of prohibited firearms, drugs and cash. According to police, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Organised Crime Squad...
Infamous Backpacker Murderer Charles Sobhraj Released from Prison
Serial killer Charles Sobhraj was deported from Nepal to France on 23 December 2022, after being released early from prison on health grounds by order of the Supreme Court. The notorious figure is believed to have killed at least 20 backpackers...
The Decades Long War on Climate Defenders in the Global South Creeps North
Global Witness published its Decade of Defiance report in September, outlining that since 2012, one land and environmental defender has been killed on average every two days somewhere around the planet. Indeed, since the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, 1,213...
The Law, Defences and Penalties for Unauthorised Use or Possession of Firearms in NSW
A man has been arrested after police allegedly found a modified firearm and drug precursors in his car. According to police, officers attached to the State Crime Command’s Drug and Firearms Squad were patrolling the suburb of Concord in Sydney’s...
The Wieambilla Shootout Exposes Systemic Issues, Warns Gun Control Australia’s Roland Browne
In the wake of the Wieambilla killings, Gun Control Australia has called on the Palaszczuk government to release the information it’s withholding relating to the recent massacre that occurred at a remote property in the Queensland Western Downs region. On 12...
