The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW
A little after 3pm on Sunday, 3 March 2026, New South Wales Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Command officers were patrolling on Bundjalung land in the northeastern New South Wales town of Tweed Heads, when they were alerted to a...
Social Media Giants are Deleting Lifesaving Drug Warnings: Interview with AIVL’s Molly Howes
Social media companies, like Meta and TikTok, have been removing the drug warning alerts that local harm reduction organisations have been posting on their social media pages, despite the fact that these are warnings about bad batches of illicit substances,...
The Offence of Assaulting a Police Officer in New South Wales
A 27-year-old woman was arrested on Gadigal land at her Potts Point residence on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, as part of the ongoing investigations of Strike Force Laine, which is the New South Wales Police Force probe into the participants...
“Hey Commissioner, Stop Running Drug Dogs Through Pubs and Clubs”, Demand NSW Greens
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann quizzed NSW police commissioner Mal Lanyon on the practice of running drug dogs through bars in Sydney. And as the local member pointed out to the top cop, during a 27 February 2026...
The Offence of Drug Driving in New South Wales
The New South Police Force carried out one of its trademark statewide drink and drug driving blitzes from 12 am on Thursday, 12 February, to 4 am on Sunday, 15 February 2026. Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers) led to...
The Criminal Offence of Supplying a Prohibited Drug in New South Wales
At 5pm on Wednesday, 31 December 2025, NSW police officers from the New England Police District, executed a search warrant on Gomeroi land at a property on Hall Street, in the small New South Wales town of Gilgai. This raid...
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...
