Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty...
Increasingly Authoritarian Governments Favour Failed Drug War Tactics
Recent months have seen the US Trump administration illegally killing foreign nationals in boats off the coast of Venezuela, while in NSW, the Minns government recently announced that it wouldn’t end the police use of drug dogs and strip searches...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 17 to 23 November 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Inciting Another to Procure a Child for Unlawful Sexual Activity is Not a Crime, Court Finds The Supreme Court found it was not a crime...
NSW Government Rejects Drug Law Reform Sought by the Community
The NSW Labor Carr government set the precedent for visionary drug law reform delivered by a state government at risk of unpopular civil society response, because it was of most benefit to the people of NSW in 1999. Yet, with...
Reflections on the Squibbing of the NSW Government Drug Summit Response
We were promised the world and given a shit sandwich. And now there will be no more meaningful drug law reform in NSW in my lifetime. This was a once in every few decades opportunity. It has been lost. The...
AntiCop on Why Young People Should Not Consider a Career in the NSW Police Force
The New South Wales Police Force has had difficulty recruiting officers over the 2020s. So, it’s just commenced the You Should Be a Cop school program, which aims to get high schoolers in years 10 to 12 interested in a...
NSW Government Increases Standard Non-Parole Period for Domestic Violence Murders
The New South Wales government has introduced the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Domestic and Sexual Offences) Bill 2025 into parliament which would, if passed, increase the standard non-parole period (SNPP) for offences of murder committed against current or former intimate partners...
NSW Government Resists Broad Calls for Drug Law Reform
The NSW government disregarded last week’s deadline for a response to the recommendations flowing from the 2024 NSW Drug Summit, which it organised, and it also rejected every suggestion made by the NSW inquiry into state cannabis laws. Yet, the “open...
The Various Offences of Drug Supply in New South Wales
A 29-year-old woman from the southwestern New South Wales town of Young was charged with 56 drug offences on Thursday 2 October 2025, whilst her 19-year-old male counterpart has been charged with five crimes involving illicit substances. NSW Police Strike...
NSW Drug Law Campaigners Call for Long Sought-After Illicit Substance Reforms
A coalition of NSW organisations led by Uniting held a presser last week calling on NSW premier Chris Minns to respond to the Report on the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit within the six-month-period that report authors set for...
