Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 September 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Appeal Court Orders Judge to Remove Herself from Three Criminal Cases The DPP successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to continue presiding over the cases...
Third Tranche of NSW Organised Crime Laws Are Set to Further Erode the Rights of All
The Minns government has announced its third suite of organised crime laws this year. This came as the 52nd gangland shooting in Greater Sydney over 2026 transpired, and whilst this uptick in crime is spurring this series of legislative reform...
The Baby Premier and the Spy Boss Who Warned of Antisemitism
Towards the end of last week, New South Wales premier Chris Minns and ASIO director general Mike Burgess appeared separately in The Australian in an apparent attempt to rewrite history around significant events that have been spurred locally by the...
Australian Billionaires Continue to Rake It In, as Their Influence Over Politics Grows
Much of the coverage of increasingly influential billionaires since the 2025 second coming of the US Trump administration has involved a focus on the US kind. However, a recent Oxfam report reveals that just like US billionaires, those in Australia...
The Offence of Common Assault in NSW
Two women have been charged with common assault and using offensive language after they allegedly attacked a man near a bus stop on Gadigal land in the Sydney CBD. Officers attached to the Sydney City Police Area Command received a...
The Australian Defence Minister’s AI Bonanza Is All About US Sovereignty
Australian defence minister Richard Marles posted to Instagram on 2 September 2026, as he was jogging at Pier 39 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marles was there meeting with Silicon Valley “tech companies, with frontier companies, about AI”. Yet,...
Thorpe’s Legislating an End to Strip Searching Children and Shackling Birthing Women
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practises that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women during childbirth and the strip searching of children. And as these bills are undergoing the...
Leaked Footage Reveals NSW Police Intentionally Brutalised the Public at Herzog
Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops posted a clip online, which, having been anonymously supplied to it, went viral last weekend. The leaked footage involves a NSW police officer bragging about beating up a civilian, during the policing of the 9...
The NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial Is Being Expanded Before Any Official Assessment
The Minns government confirmed in a 27 August 2026 press release that it’s continuing with the New South Wales police crime-related drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in the NSW town of Moree for two more years, as well as looking...
“Another Site for Resistance”: Mparntwe for Falastin Activists on Their Pine Gap Blockade Prosecution
The Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested as part of the 9 October 2025 blockade of the road into US spy base Pine Gap are about to appear in court. Their direct action aimed at calling out the Pine Gap intel...
