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The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally

The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally

The 9 February 2026 NSW police assault upon the 20,000 pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders gathered to peacefully protest the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog continues to leave much of the constituency stunned. The shock of witnessing NSW police liberally applying brute force to civilians appears unprecedented in living memory, and it’s not ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 February 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 February 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW to Prohibit the Use of ‘Good Character’ as a Mitigating Factor in Sentencing New legislation will, if enacted, prohibit courts from considering prior good character when determining penalties for individuals who commit crimes. Click here to read the article Criminal ...
The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia

The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia

“Fascism and authoritarianism isn’t just in Trump’s USA,” insisted Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi in a social media post on Tuesday, the day after the New South Wales police attacked 20,000 pro-Palestinians demonstrators on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall. “It takes root here too,” she added. The unbridled NSW police assault on civilians protesting ...
Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent

Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent

The 31-year-old white Australian man who tossed a homemade bomb that failed to go off into the crowd at the First Nations Invasion Day rally in Boorloo-Perth was charged with engaging in an act of terrorism on 5 February 2026. This is significant, in terms of white settler violence towards First Peoples being recognised as terrorism, as the act mirrors ...
Labor is Legislating the Bedrock for a Future Authoritarian One Nation Government

Labor is Legislating the Bedrock for a Future Authoritarian One Nation Government

Multiple polls in early 2026 have Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party coming in at second place behind the Labor government. Of course, unlike the Coalition opposition, One Nation only holds a few seats in parliament and has only ever run candidates in limited electorates. But Hanson has said that if the constituency desires it, her party will run ...
NSW Authorities Presaged and Later Affirmed the Police Brutalisation of Pro-Palestinians

NSW Authorities Presaged and Later Affirmed the Police Brutalisation of Pro-Palestinians

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 9 February 2026, to rally against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog. But little did they understand that NSW ministers and senior police had predetermined that if they did exercise their right to assemble and continued to seek to march then New South Wales ...
NSW Police Liberally Deployed Potentially Lethal Pepper Spray at Herzog Rally

NSW Police Liberally Deployed Potentially Lethal Pepper Spray at Herzog Rally

As New South Wales police confirmed to tens of thousands of civilians, during the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, its chief concern is protecting an amoral ruling class. And despite the potential lethality of crowd control weapons, police are willing to use CCWs to progress this goal, even with ...
Supervised Injecting Rooms Save Lives. Why Are Councils Turning Their Backs on Them?


Supervised Injecting Rooms Save Lives. Why Are Councils Turning Their Backs on Them?


Australia is facing a growing crisis of drug-related harm. Overdose deaths are rising and there’s inadequate investment in proven harm reduction strategies such as Supervised Injecting Facilities (SIFs). Despite the evidence supporting SIFs as effective public health interventions, Australia operates only two such facilities, one in Sydney and the ...
Criminal Offences That Apply to “Unauthorised Protests” in New South Wales

Criminal Offences That Apply to “Unauthorised Protests” in New South Wales

Israeli president Issac Herzog arrived in Sydney on Monday, 9 February 2026 as part of his official four day visit. The stated purpose of Herzog’s tour is so he can mourn with the Jewish families, who lost loved ones in the Bondi Beach massacre. Yet, as his nation has been engaged in a 27-month-long genocide, a massive protest is set to take place on ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 February 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 February 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: How Are Laws Made in New South Wales? An outline of the steps that lead to the enactment of legislation in New South Wales. Click here to read the article The Offence of Kidnapping in New South Wales Far-right extremists were in an online chatroom discussing kidnapping the ...

The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally

The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President Timothy Roberts on the Herzog Rally
The 9 February 2026 NSW police assault upon the 20,000 pro-Palestinian Sydneysiders gathered to peacefully protest the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog continues to leave much of the constituency stunned. The shock of witnessing NSW police liberally applying brute force to civilians appears unprecedented in living memory, and it’s not ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 February 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 February 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW to Prohibit the Use of ‘Good Character’ as a Mitigating Factor in Sentencing New legislation will, if enacted, prohibit courts from considering prior good character when determining penalties for individuals who commit crimes. Click here to read the article Criminal ...

The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia

The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia
“Fascism and authoritarianism isn’t just in Trump’s USA,” insisted Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi in a social media post on Tuesday, the day after the New South Wales police attacked 20,000 pro-Palestinians demonstrators on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall. “It takes root here too,” she added. The unbridled NSW police assault on civilians protesting ...

Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent

Terrorism Prosecution of White Australian Over Perth Bomb Attack Sets Important Precedent
The 31-year-old white Australian man who tossed a homemade bomb that failed to go off into the crowd at the First Nations Invasion Day rally in Boorloo-Perth was charged with engaging in an act of terrorism on 5 February 2026. This is significant, in terms of white settler violence towards First Peoples being recognised as terrorism, as the act mirrors ...

Labor is Legislating the Bedrock for a Future Authoritarian One Nation Government

Labor is Legislating the Bedrock for a Future Authoritarian One Nation Government
Multiple polls in early 2026 have Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party coming in at second place behind the Labor government. Of course, unlike the Coalition opposition, One Nation only holds a few seats in parliament and has only ever run candidates in limited electorates. But Hanson has said that if the constituency desires it, her party will run ...

NSW Authorities Presaged and Later Affirmed the Police Brutalisation of Pro-Palestinians

NSW Authorities Presaged and Later Affirmed the Police Brutalisation of Pro-Palestinians
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 9 February 2026, to rally against the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog. But little did they understand that NSW ministers and senior police had predetermined that if they did exercise their right to assemble and continued to seek to march then New South Wales ...

NSW Police Liberally Deployed Potentially Lethal Pepper Spray at Herzog Rally

NSW Police Liberally Deployed Potentially Lethal Pepper Spray at Herzog Rally
As New South Wales police confirmed to tens of thousands of civilians, during the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, its chief concern is protecting an amoral ruling class. And despite the potential lethality of crowd control weapons, police are willing to use CCWs to progress this goal, even with ...

Supervised Injecting Rooms Save Lives. Why Are Councils Turning Their Backs on Them?


Supervised Injecting Rooms Save Lives. Why Are Councils Turning Their Backs on Them?

Australia is facing a growing crisis of drug-related harm. Overdose deaths are rising and there’s inadequate investment in proven harm reduction strategies such as Supervised Injecting Facilities (SIFs). Despite the evidence supporting SIFs as effective public health interventions, Australia operates only two such facilities, one in Sydney and the ...

Criminal Offences That Apply to “Unauthorised Protests” in New South Wales

Criminal Offences That Apply to “Unauthorised Protests” in New South Wales
Israeli president Issac Herzog arrived in Sydney on Monday, 9 February 2026 as part of his official four day visit. The stated purpose of Herzog’s tour is so he can mourn with the Jewish families, who lost loved ones in the Bondi Beach massacre. Yet, as his nation has been engaged in a 27-month-long genocide, a massive protest is set to take place on ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 February 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 2 to 8 February 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: How Are Laws Made in New South Wales? An outline of the steps that lead to the enactment of legislation in New South Wales. Click here to read the article The Offence of Kidnapping in New South Wales Far-right extremists were in an online chatroom discussing kidnapping the ...