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Australian Government Throws Blind Support Behind US-Israeli War of Aggression on Iran

Australian Government Throws Blind Support Behind US-Israeli War of Aggression on Iran

The Albanese government was the first US ally to jump on board the illegal, so-called preventative attack Washington and Tel Aviv unleashed upon Iran on 28 February 2026. And in taking an unquestioning side, PM Anthony Albanese has not only foreshadowed our potential involvement in what could be an entrenched war, but he is too broadly embracing the ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 February to 1 March 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 February to 1 March 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos Many of the protesters brutalised by police while decrying the genocide in Gaza regathered in defiance yesterday. Click here to read the article ACT Uphold the Rights ...
Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Law that Suppress Free Speech

Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Law that Suppress Free Speech

University of Sydney constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey expressed to the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into measures that exist to combat rising far-right extremism on 19 February 2026, that she’s concerned that the plethora of laws that have been enacted to combat hate over the last year or so, both at the state and federal level, are having an ...
The Antisemitism Royal Commission Will Further Suppress Criticism of Israeli Atrocities

The Antisemitism Royal Commission Will Further Suppress Criticism of Israeli Atrocities

Following the 8 January 2026 establishment of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, those concerned that it might be a platform for the Israel lobby’s agenda had considered such fears might be allayed with former High Court Justice Virginia Bell heading up the inquiry,  but now she’s announced the IHRA antisemitism definition will ...
Protesters Be Wary: The NSW Premier Is Launching a 24/7 Police State with Rifles

Protesters Be Wary: The NSW Premier Is Launching a 24/7 Police State with Rifles

Following the state-sanctioned New South Wales police attack on pro-Palestinian protesters rallying against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on 9 February 2026, NSW premier Chris Minns announced on 26 February the establishment of a new 250 officer 24/7 rapid response unit, designed to respond to apparently spiking hate crimes and ...
Benny Wenda Demands End to Indonesia’s Genocidal Attacks in West Papuan Highlands 

Benny Wenda Demands End to Indonesia’s Genocidal Attacks in West Papuan Highlands 

West Papuan provisional government president Benny Wenda has called on Pacific leaders to condemn the ongoing occupation of his peoples’ country by Indonesia, as Jakarta, the so-called administrator of the region, has again been carrying out aerial and land raids upon villages in the West Papuan highlands, specifically in Puncak Regency, commencing on ...
Join the National Walk for Truth: Travis Lovett on the Need for a National Truth-Telling Process

Join the National Walk for Truth: Travis Lovett on the Need for a National Truth-Telling Process

Kerrupmara/Gunditjmara, Boandik man Travis Lovett is walking from Naarm-Melbourne to Ngunnawal land in Canberra from 19 April to 27 May 2026, and he’s inviting everyone on the continent to join him. As he explains, this is a walk for truth, and it is further about triggering a National Truth-Telling Process that will serve to enlighten and heal the ...
Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man involved in a police pursuit crashed into their car on Saturday, 14 February 2026. And NSW police reported ...
ACT Uphold the Rights of Public Housing Tenants to Live in Their Established Homes

ACT Uphold the Rights of Public Housing Tenants to Live in Their Established Homes

The ACT Supreme Court recently delivered an extraordinary ruling that provides long-term public housing tenants who face eviction and transfer to other dwellings with the right to remain in their homes of up to 27 to 42 years, as they would otherwise be denied procedural fairness and their basic human rights. Delivered on 30 January 2026 in respect of ...
Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos

Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos

Local pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land in Hyde Park on Sunday, 22 February 2026, to march through the Sydney CBD. The constituents were in the park to express their grievances about a 29-month-long mass murder and starvation program against the Palestinians of Gaza. And this was the first such mobilisation since the New South Wales police ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 February 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Supreme Court’s Reasons for Maintaining Major Events Declaration for Herzog Visit The court found it was warranted for police to wield extraordinary powers during the visit. Click here to read the article The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President ...
Pauline Hanson’s Dog Whistling on Muslims Sets Politics into Race to the Bottom

Pauline Hanson’s Dog Whistling on Muslims Sets Politics into Race to the Bottom

“Oh, you know, you say, ‘Oh, well, there is good Muslims out there,’” One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said to Sky News host Sharri Markson during an interview on the evening of 16 February 2026. “How can you tell me there are good Muslims?” This dog whistling rhetoric delivered by the nation’s arch xenophobe, with 30 years’ experience in the game, ...

Australian Government Throws Blind Support Behind US-Israeli War of Aggression on Iran

Australian Government Throws Blind Support Behind US-Israeli War of Aggression on Iran
The Albanese government was the first US ally to jump on board the illegal, so-called preventative attack Washington and Tel Aviv unleashed upon Iran on 28 February 2026. And in taking an unquestioning side, PM Anthony Albanese has not only foreshadowed our potential involvement in what could be an entrenched war, but he is too broadly embracing the ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 February to 1 March 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 February to 1 March 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos Many of the protesters brutalised by police while decrying the genocide in Gaza regathered in defiance yesterday. Click here to read the article ACT Uphold the Rights ...

Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Law that Suppress Free Speech

Australian Lawmakers Continue to Enact Hate Crime Law that Suppress Free Speech
University of Sydney constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey expressed to the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into measures that exist to combat rising far-right extremism on 19 February 2026, that she’s concerned that the plethora of laws that have been enacted to combat hate over the last year or so, both at the state and federal level, are having an ...

The Antisemitism Royal Commission Will Further Suppress Criticism of Israeli Atrocities

The Antisemitism Royal Commission Will Further Suppress Criticism of Israeli Atrocities
Following the 8 January 2026 establishment of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, those concerned that it might be a platform for the Israel lobby’s agenda had considered such fears might be allayed with former High Court Justice Virginia Bell heading up the inquiry,  but now she’s announced the IHRA antisemitism definition will ...

Protesters Be Wary: The NSW Premier Is Launching a 24/7 Police State with Rifles

Protesters Be Wary: The NSW Premier Is Launching a 24/7 Police State with Rifles
Following the state-sanctioned New South Wales police attack on pro-Palestinian protesters rallying against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on 9 February 2026, NSW premier Chris Minns announced on 26 February the establishment of a new 250 officer 24/7 rapid response unit, designed to respond to apparently spiking hate crimes and ...

Benny Wenda Demands End to Indonesia’s Genocidal Attacks in West Papuan Highlands 

Benny Wenda Demands End to Indonesia’s Genocidal Attacks in West Papuan Highlands 
West Papuan provisional government president Benny Wenda has called on Pacific leaders to condemn the ongoing occupation of his peoples’ country by Indonesia, as Jakarta, the so-called administrator of the region, has again been carrying out aerial and land raids upon villages in the West Papuan highlands, specifically in Puncak Regency, commencing on ...

Join the National Walk for Truth: Travis Lovett on the Need for a National Truth-Telling Process

Join the National Walk for Truth: Travis Lovett on the Need for a National Truth-Telling Process
Kerrupmara/Gunditjmara, Boandik man Travis Lovett is walking from Naarm-Melbourne to Ngunnawal land in Canberra from 19 April to 27 May 2026, and he’s inviting everyone on the continent to join him. As he explains, this is a walk for truth, and it is further about triggering a National Truth-Telling Process that will serve to enlighten and heal the ...

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations

Police Pursuit Double Fatality Occurs After NSW Police Ignore Coronial Recommendations
The New South Wales Police Force is conducting a critical incident investigation into the death of two women, who were travelling across Gundungurra land down the Old Hume Highway in the Sydney suburb of Camden South, when a 31-year-old man involved in a police pursuit crashed into their car on Saturday, 14 February 2026. And NSW police reported ...

ACT Uphold the Rights of Public Housing Tenants to Live in Their Established Homes

ACT Uphold the Rights of Public Housing Tenants to Live in Their Established Homes
The ACT Supreme Court recently delivered an extraordinary ruling that provides long-term public housing tenants who face eviction and transfer to other dwellings with the right to remain in their homes of up to 27 to 42 years, as they would otherwise be denied procedural fairness and their basic human rights. Delivered on 30 January 2026 in respect of ...

Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos

Sydney’s Bruised Pro-Palestinians Retake City Streets as Gaza Genocide Continues: In Photos
Local pro-Palestinians gathered on Gadigal land in Hyde Park on Sunday, 22 February 2026, to march through the Sydney CBD. The constituents were in the park to express their grievances about a 29-month-long mass murder and starvation program against the Palestinians of Gaza. And this was the first such mobilisation since the New South Wales police ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 16 to 22 February 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Supreme Court’s Reasons for Maintaining Major Events Declaration for Herzog Visit The court found it was warranted for police to wield extraordinary powers during the visit. Click here to read the article The State Set the Scene for Police Brutality: NSWCCL President ...

Pauline Hanson’s Dog Whistling on Muslims Sets Politics into Race to the Bottom

Pauline Hanson’s Dog Whistling on Muslims Sets Politics into Race to the Bottom
“Oh, you know, you say, ‘Oh, well, there is good Muslims out there,’” One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said to Sky News host Sharri Markson during an interview on the evening of 16 February 2026. “How can you tell me there are good Muslims?” This dog whistling rhetoric delivered by the nation’s arch xenophobe, with 30 years’ experience in the game, ...