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Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission

Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission

Wednesday, 15 April 2026, marked 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its 339 recommendations on how to curb the crisis. Yet, all these years on, and it’s only worsening with 630 First Peoples having died in the custody of police or corrections since the final report was released, and the 12 months of ...
Corrective Services NSW Is Surveilling Inmates’ Calls to MPs to Silence Complaints

Corrective Services NSW Is Surveilling Inmates’ Calls to MPs to Silence Complaints

Corrective Services New South Wales is surveilling privileged calls between inmates and members of parliament, while the government has also tried to whittle away at the confidentiality of calls between inmates and lawyers. And the reason is clear, corrections wants the abuse and malpractice inmates are subject to in the NSW corrections system to stay ...
The War Crime of Murder: A Commonwealth Offence

The War Crime of Murder: A Commonwealth Offence

Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested on 7 April 2026, on Dharawal land at Sydney’s domestic airport. The former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) corporal has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder, and as of 14 April, the 47-year-old, often considered our greatest living war hero, is being held on remand ...
NSW Government Refuses Free Public Transport Despite Rising Unaffordability

NSW Government Refuses Free Public Transport Despite Rising Unaffordability

On Monday afternoon, 13 April 2026, the US Trump administration was hours away from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, while a week prior, Washington’s focus had been opening it, and with the cost of oil soaring to over $100 a barrel again, so too are those prices rising at the local bowser. But New South Wales premier Chris Minns continues to refuse to ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 April 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 April 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Retrial Ordered for Drug Importation Case as Judge Incorrectly Explained Law to Jury The judge incorrectly explained the law to the jury. Click here to read the article Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder The new ...
NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry

NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry

Following thousands of New South Wales police officers brutalising countless participants at the 9 February 2026 protest against the official state visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, NSW police is now dawn raiding civilian demonstrators over their actions during this huge unprecedented display of police violence and the word is that the cops are ...
Apartheid Israel Is Invading and Colonising Southern Lebanon in Plain Sight

Apartheid Israel Is Invading and Colonising Southern Lebanon in Plain Sight

US president Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure and further to wipe out its entire civilisation on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, due to a Pakistan-brokered two week ceasefire. But despite this, Israel, Washington’s partner in the war against Iran, has launched a plethora of airstrikes against Lebanon, despite ...
Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence

Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence

Australian politicians are to receive heightened law enforcement and security protections, due to an increasingly fraught domestic security environment that has seen at least ten people charged with making violent threats towards politicians since September 2025, which has included neo-Nazis being detected in a chatroom sharing ideas about kidnapping ...
Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Faces Multiple Charges of the War Crime of Murder

Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Faces Multiple Charges of the War Crime of Murder

Australia’s most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested by Australian federal police on Gadigal land, as he arrived by plane at Sydney’s domestic airport on Tuesday, 3 April 2026. The 47-year-old former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) officer was then taken to Mascot police station, where he was charged with five counts of the war crime ...
The US Is Covertly Propagandising Australians, Whilst Monitoring Our Migrant Crime

The US Is Covertly Propagandising Australians, Whilst Monitoring Our Migrant Crime

The Trump administration sent a cable early last week ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This initiative, of course, includes the US embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen ...
Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder

Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder

Israel has just passed a law permitting the state to execute Palestinians who commit deadly attacks by hanging. The law allows the death penalty only to be applied to Palestinians, or “Israeli Arabs”, as the state refers to them, but it does not apply to Israeli Jews. And a law that specifically allows a state to kill part of the population but not ...

Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission

Still No Justice for Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 35 Years After Royal Commission
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, marked 35 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its 339 recommendations on how to curb the crisis. Yet, all these years on, and it’s only worsening with 630 First Peoples having died in the custody of police or corrections since the final report was released, and the 12 months of ...

Corrective Services NSW Is Surveilling Inmates’ Calls to MPs to Silence Complaints

Corrective Services NSW Is Surveilling Inmates’ Calls to MPs to Silence Complaints
Corrective Services New South Wales is surveilling privileged calls between inmates and members of parliament, while the government has also tried to whittle away at the confidentiality of calls between inmates and lawyers. And the reason is clear, corrections wants the abuse and malpractice inmates are subject to in the NSW corrections system to stay ...

The War Crime of Murder: A Commonwealth Offence

The War Crime of Murder: A Commonwealth Offence
Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested on 7 April 2026, on Dharawal land at Sydney’s domestic airport. The former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) corporal has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder, and as of 14 April, the 47-year-old, often considered our greatest living war hero, is being held on remand ...

NSW Government Refuses Free Public Transport Despite Rising Unaffordability

NSW Government Refuses Free Public Transport Despite Rising Unaffordability
On Monday afternoon, 13 April 2026, the US Trump administration was hours away from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, while a week prior, Washington’s focus had been opening it, and with the cost of oil soaring to over $100 a barrel again, so too are those prices rising at the local bowser. But New South Wales premier Chris Minns continues to refuse to ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 April 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 6 to 12 April 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Retrial Ordered for Drug Importation Case as Judge Incorrectly Explained Law to Jury The judge incorrectly explained the law to the jury. Click here to read the article Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder The new ...

NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry

NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry
Following thousands of New South Wales police officers brutalising countless participants at the 9 February 2026 protest against the official state visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog, NSW police is now dawn raiding civilian demonstrators over their actions during this huge unprecedented display of police violence and the word is that the cops are ...

Apartheid Israel Is Invading and Colonising Southern Lebanon in Plain Sight

Apartheid Israel Is Invading and Colonising Southern Lebanon in Plain Sight
US president Donald Trump pulled back from his threat to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure and further to wipe out its entire civilisation on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, due to a Pakistan-brokered two week ceasefire. But despite this, Israel, Washington’s partner in the war against Iran, has launched a plethora of airstrikes against Lebanon, despite ...

Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence

Protections for Politicians Enhanced Due to Rise in Politically Motivated Violence
Australian politicians are to receive heightened law enforcement and security protections, due to an increasingly fraught domestic security environment that has seen at least ten people charged with making violent threats towards politicians since September 2025, which has included neo-Nazis being detected in a chatroom sharing ideas about kidnapping ...

Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Faces Multiple Charges of the War Crime of Murder

Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier Faces Multiple Charges of the War Crime of Murder
Australia’s most decorated war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested by Australian federal police on Gadigal land, as he arrived by plane at Sydney’s domestic airport on Tuesday, 3 April 2026. The 47-year-old former Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) officer was then taken to Mascot police station, where he was charged with five counts of the war crime ...

The US Is Covertly Propagandising Australians, Whilst Monitoring Our Migrant Crime

The US Is Covertly Propagandising Australians, Whilst Monitoring Our Migrant Crime
The Trump administration sent a cable early last week ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This initiative, of course, includes the US embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen ...

Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder

Israel Prescribes Death by Hanging for Palestinians Convicted of Terrorism-Related Murder
Israel has just passed a law permitting the state to execute Palestinians who commit deadly attacks by hanging. The law allows the death penalty only to be applied to Palestinians, or “Israeli Arabs”, as the state refers to them, but it does not apply to Israeli Jews. And a law that specifically allows a state to kill part of the population but not ...