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Australia Needs First Nations Truth-Telling Not Hasbara Hiding Israel’s Colonial Crimes

Australia Needs First Nations Truth-Telling Not Hasbara Hiding Israel’s Colonial Crimes

On taking office, the Albanese government acknowledged need for broad First Nations reform. Labor held a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament, while Senator Lidia Thorpe led a campaign insisting truth-telling and treaty are the priority. However, the nation is now instead teetering on adopting Israel’s long-term hasbara, or propaganda, ...
NSW Government’s Blanket Protest Ban: A Massive Gifting Away of Our Basic Rights for Xmas

NSW Government’s Blanket Protest Ban: A Massive Gifting Away of Our Basic Rights for Xmas

The Minns government has passed laws that provide for the imposition of blanket bans on public protest, in circumstances when NSW police has designated an incident terrorism-related under state law. These dissent silencing laws were rushed through NSW parliament this week, and they were predicated upon the false claim of the premier that ...
Wiradjuri Nation to Charge Compensation to Mining Interests, Explains Paul Towney

Wiradjuri Nation to Charge Compensation to Mining Interests, Explains Paul Towney

Proud Wiradjuri descendant Paul Towney earlier this year commenced his campaign to raise awareness about a 2024 Federal Court of Australia ruling that found native title rights had not been extinguished in respect of land grants issued in the early 1820s. Towney began by occupying a parcel of Wiradjuri land at Charles Sturt University, yet he’s now ...
NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’

NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’

New South Wales police tactical operations officers rammed two cars carrying seven men on Dharug land at the intersection of George and Campbell streets in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Liverpool at around 4 pm on Thursday 18 December 2025. And on releasing all the men on the following day without charges, it would appear police had been trying to ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 December 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Government Passes Revised Police Powers to Move-On at Places of Worship The government passed the new laws after the Supreme Court struck down the first version as unconstitutionally infringing free political communication. Click here to read the article The Laws that ...
Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

The Bondi Beach massacre was an appalling hate crime targeting Sydney’s Jewish community. But the subsequent intermingling and implication of the local pro-Palestine/antigenocide protest movement in post-shooting public statements is an affront. Indeed, the psychotic father and son shooters appear to be ISIS-affiliated, and ISIS has no association with ...
There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...
Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Despite decades of campaigning to end the crisis of Aboriginal deaths in custody, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported on 10 December 2025, that 33 First Nations people had died in the custody of either law enforcement or corrections over the year 2024-25, which comprised the highest number since monitoring began in 1979-80. So, Senator ...

Australia Needs First Nations Truth-Telling Not Hasbara Hiding Israel’s Colonial Crimes

Australia Needs First Nations Truth-Telling Not Hasbara Hiding Israel’s Colonial Crimes
On taking office, the Albanese government acknowledged need for broad First Nations reform. Labor held a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament, while Senator Lidia Thorpe led a campaign insisting truth-telling and treaty are the priority. However, the nation is now instead teetering on adopting Israel’s long-term hasbara, or propaganda, ...

NSW Government’s Blanket Protest Ban: A Massive Gifting Away of Our Basic Rights for Xmas

NSW Government’s Blanket Protest Ban: A Massive Gifting Away of Our Basic Rights for Xmas
The Minns government has passed laws that provide for the imposition of blanket bans on public protest, in circumstances when NSW police has designated an incident terrorism-related under state law. These dissent silencing laws were rushed through NSW parliament this week, and they were predicated upon the false claim of the premier that ...

Wiradjuri Nation to Charge Compensation to Mining Interests, Explains Paul Towney

Wiradjuri Nation to Charge Compensation to Mining Interests, Explains Paul Towney
Proud Wiradjuri descendant Paul Towney earlier this year commenced his campaign to raise awareness about a 2024 Federal Court of Australia ruling that found native title rights had not been extinguished in respect of land grants issued in the early 1820s. Towney began by occupying a parcel of Wiradjuri land at Charles Sturt University, yet he’s now ...

NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’

NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’
New South Wales police tactical operations officers rammed two cars carrying seven men on Dharug land at the intersection of George and Campbell streets in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Liverpool at around 4 pm on Thursday 18 December 2025. And on releasing all the men on the following day without charges, it would appear police had been trying to ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Government Passes Revised Police Powers to Move-On at Places of Worship The government passed the new laws after the Supreme Court struck down the first version as unconstitutionally infringing free political communication. Click here to read the article The Laws that ...

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency

Proposed Temporary Ban on NSW Protests Is a Slippery Slope to Permanency
The Bondi Beach massacre was an appalling hate crime targeting Sydney’s Jewish community. But the subsequent intermingling and implication of the local pro-Palestine/antigenocide protest movement in post-shooting public statements is an affront. Indeed, the psychotic father and son shooters appear to be ISIS-affiliated, and ISIS has no association with ...

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws

There is Broad Social and Political Agreement on the Need to Reform NSW Firearms Laws
In the wake of the horrendous Bondi Beach massacre, the Minns government has taken the extraordinary measure of reconvening NSW parliament for two days right before Christmas, as it has already officially closed for the year, and this is primarily to consider new firearm laws that NSW premier Chris Mins considers ought to be in place before the entire ...

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever

Thorpe Demands Albanese Intervene as Aboriginal Custody Deaths Higher Than Ever
Despite decades of campaigning to end the crisis of Aboriginal deaths in custody, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported on 10 December 2025, that 33 First Nations people had died in the custody of either law enforcement or corrections over the year 2024-25, which comprised the highest number since monitoring began in 1979-80. So, Senator ...