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“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches

“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches

Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and a stella legal team saw the unconstitutional regime torn down, the analogy of a blunt tool certainly lent itself to many ...
Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian

Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian

The Federal Court has denied Australian citizen Dan Duggan’s appeal of former attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ 2024 decision to greenlight his extradition to the US on 2017 charges alleging he illegally trained Chinese military pilots. And while it’s understood the Trump White House has been sniffing around about getting its hands on him, our prime ...
The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism

The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism

Federal Liberal “leader” Angus Taylor delivered a despicably racist, ethnonationalist migration policy speech on Tuesday, 14 April 2026. This desperate politician, whose status as opposition leader is in freefall, demonised what’s dubbed “our migrant community”, he called for immigration based on (white) “Australian values”, and the danger in this ...
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 ...

“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches

“A Blunt Tool”: NSW Court Quashes Government’s Blanket Ban on Protest Marches
Three justices of the New South Wales Court of Appeal struck down the Minns government’s law enabling the blanket banning of protest marches on Thursday, 17 April 2026, describing the law as a “blunt tool”. And as activist groups and a stella legal team saw the unconstitutional regime torn down, the analogy of a blunt tool certainly lent itself to many ...

Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian

Duggan’s US Extradition Appeal Failed But Albanese Could Save Our Fellow Australian
The Federal Court has denied Australian citizen Dan Duggan’s appeal of former attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ 2024 decision to greenlight his extradition to the US on 2017 charges alleging he illegally trained Chinese military pilots. And while it’s understood the Trump White House has been sniffing around about getting its hands on him, our prime ...

The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism

The Liberals (White) Australian Values Immigration Policy Is Racist Ethnonationalism
Federal Liberal “leader” Angus Taylor delivered a despicably racist, ethnonationalist migration policy speech on Tuesday, 14 April 2026. This desperate politician, whose status as opposition leader is in freefall, demonised what’s dubbed “our migrant community”, he called for immigration based on (white) “Australian values”, and the danger in this ...

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 ...