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Dan Duggan Has Just Spent His Fourth Holiday Season in Prison Without Charge

Dan Duggan Has Just Spent His Fourth Holiday Season in Prison Without Charge

Australian citizen Dan Duggan has just spent his fourth Christmas and New Year detained in a New South Wales prison at the behest of a United States extradition request that relates to an indictment, charging him with conspiring to export US defence services in the form of pilot training. As of 1 January 2026, the total time Dan’s spent in prison is 3 ...
NSW Government Uses Bondi Massacre to Justify Expansion of State Security Protocols

NSW Government Uses Bondi Massacre to Justify Expansion of State Security Protocols

“The security protocols and resources are going to have to change in Sydney. They have changed in Rome. They have changed in Paris,” said NSW premier Chris Minns at a 29 December 2025 press conference, which was yet another announcement about the approach his government is taking in the wake of the 14 December Bondi Beach massacre. “They are going to ...
The Genocidal Israeli President Is Officially Visiting Australia to Promote Social Cohesion

The Genocidal Israeli President Is Officially Visiting Australia to Promote Social Cohesion

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announced on 23 December 2025 that governor general Sam Mostyn would be extending an invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog to visit this country in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre. However, the fact that Herzog has overseen his nation’s 26-month-long genocide in Gaza, is leaving a lot of ...
The Special Terrorism Policing Powers Triggered by the Bondi Beach Massacre Explained

The Special Terrorism Policing Powers Triggered by the Bondi Beach Massacre Explained

New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon declared the 14 December 2025 Bondi Beach mass shooting, a terror-related incident in the hours following the murder of 15 Jewish people at a religious festival. This determination served to unlocked the special investigative powers available to law enforcement officers, under the Terrorism (Police Powers) ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 December 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The NSW Offence of Armed Robbery Requires the Use of an Offensive Weapon A man who stole a bottle of expensive scotch whiskey from a bottle shop via threat of a cigarette lighter has been released. Click here to read the article NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest ...
NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...
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 ...

Dan Duggan Has Just Spent His Fourth Holiday Season in Prison Without Charge

Dan Duggan Has Just Spent His Fourth Holiday Season in Prison Without Charge
Australian citizen Dan Duggan has just spent his fourth Christmas and New Year detained in a New South Wales prison at the behest of a United States extradition request that relates to an indictment, charging him with conspiring to export US defence services in the form of pilot training. As of 1 January 2026, the total time Dan’s spent in prison is 3 ...

NSW Government Uses Bondi Massacre to Justify Expansion of State Security Protocols

NSW Government Uses Bondi Massacre to Justify Expansion of State Security Protocols
“The security protocols and resources are going to have to change in Sydney. They have changed in Rome. They have changed in Paris,” said NSW premier Chris Minns at a 29 December 2025 press conference, which was yet another announcement about the approach his government is taking in the wake of the 14 December Bondi Beach massacre. “They are going to ...

The Genocidal Israeli President Is Officially Visiting Australia to Promote Social Cohesion

The Genocidal Israeli President Is Officially Visiting Australia to Promote Social Cohesion
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announced on 23 December 2025 that governor general Sam Mostyn would be extending an invitation to Israeli president Isaac Herzog to visit this country in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre. However, the fact that Herzog has overseen his nation’s 26-month-long genocide in Gaza, is leaving a lot of ...

The Special Terrorism Policing Powers Triggered by the Bondi Beach Massacre Explained

The Special Terrorism Policing Powers Triggered by the Bondi Beach Massacre Explained
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon declared the 14 December 2025 Bondi Beach mass shooting, a terror-related incident in the hours following the murder of 15 Jewish people at a religious festival. This determination served to unlocked the special investigative powers available to law enforcement officers, under the Terrorism (Police Powers) ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 22 to 28 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The NSW Offence of Armed Robbery Requires the Use of an Offensive Weapon A man who stole a bottle of expensive scotch whiskey from a bottle shop via threat of a cigarette lighter has been released. Click here to read the article NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest ...

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...

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 ...