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...
Strip Search Class Action Confirms Numerous NSW Police Strip Searches Illegal
NSW Court of Appeal Justice Dina Yehia awarded strip search class action lead plaintiff Raya Meredith $93,000 on Tuesday, while lawyers estimate her more than 3,000 co-plaintiffs could be awarded “potentially millions”, which will be the final outcome of a...
Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings Signify a Further Erosion of International Law
The targeted military strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean that killed 11 people, on order of US president Donald Trump, after it had departed from Venezuela on Tuesday 2 September 2025, has been taken as a significant departure...
Spike in Prohibited Drug Use and Associated Crime Intensifies Calls for Legalisation
The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission has yet again consulted the nation’s sewage to find that its people had consumed more than 22.2 tonnes of crystal meth, cocaine, heroin and MDMA over the 12 months to August 2024, which is the...
Alleged Members of Criminal Group Charged with a Range of Serious Offences
Thirteen people are facing criminal charges as police taskforces target an alleged criminal group said to be responsible for a range of serious criminal offences across Sydney. The investigation The New South Wales Crime Command’s Financial Crimes Squad Motor Unit...
