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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 ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 March to 5 April 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 March to 5 April 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Knife Possession Charge Dismissed on Appeal Due to Illegal Search The appeal court dismissed the charge because admitting evidence derived from the illegal police search failed the evidence admissibility test. Click here to read the article The Offence of ...
The Rot Setting in at the National Press Club Is Spreading to Other Australian Institutions

The Rot Setting in at the National Press Club Is Spreading to Other Australian Institutions

When the National Press Club cancelled an October 2025 address by US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, as he was to present a speech on Israel’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists, the respected Australian institution was tarnished. But this week, as it allowed Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman to justify these same killings, the ...
The Ongoing Affirmation of the Police Brutalisation of Herzog Protesters Speaks Volumes

The Ongoing Affirmation of the Police Brutalisation of Herzog Protesters Speaks Volumes

Two months after 3,000 New South Wales police officers set upon the participants at the 9 February 2026 protest of the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog with unbridled force, no apology for this violence has been forthcoming from the ministers and top cops who oversighted the response to the civilian protesters, which means that what ...
Iran Warns of Unprecedented “Global Economic Crisis”, if Trump Strikes Electricity Plants  

Iran Warns of Unprecedented “Global Economic Crisis”, if Trump Strikes Electricity Plants  

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese called for a “de-escalation” in the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran at the National Press Club on Thursday, 2 April 2026, as he considers the war objectives “have been realised”, while US president Donald Trump still plans on bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age”, and both leaders are ignoring that Tehran ...
NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

Eight New South Wales police officers smashed in the door of a Burwood apartment to arrest a 42-year-old woman sleeping inside the place located on Dharug land at 5 am on Thursday, 26 March 2026. She was then taken to the police station and charged with offences relating to her acts at a recent protest that was notable as it featured state law ...
Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Victoria Police Port (Public Order Response Team) officers conducted eight raids upon properties around Naarm-Melbourne early morning on Friday, 27 March 2026, in order to apprehend eight women, who’d taken part in a nonviolent protest action involving the statue of Victorian feminist activist Zelda D’Apron that sits on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land ...
NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during Question Time on 25 March 2026, as she attempted to provide NSW premier Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality that was unleashed upon the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land ...

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 ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 March to 5 April 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 March to 5 April 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Knife Possession Charge Dismissed on Appeal Due to Illegal Search The appeal court dismissed the charge because admitting evidence derived from the illegal police search failed the evidence admissibility test. Click here to read the article The Offence of ...

The Rot Setting in at the National Press Club Is Spreading to Other Australian Institutions

The Rot Setting in at the National Press Club Is Spreading to Other Australian Institutions
When the National Press Club cancelled an October 2025 address by US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, as he was to present a speech on Israel’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists, the respected Australian institution was tarnished. But this week, as it allowed Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman to justify these same killings, the ...

The Ongoing Affirmation of the Police Brutalisation of Herzog Protesters Speaks Volumes

The Ongoing Affirmation of the Police Brutalisation of Herzog Protesters Speaks Volumes
Two months after 3,000 New South Wales police officers set upon the participants at the 9 February 2026 protest of the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog with unbridled force, no apology for this violence has been forthcoming from the ministers and top cops who oversighted the response to the civilian protesters, which means that what ...

Iran Warns of Unprecedented “Global Economic Crisis”, if Trump Strikes Electricity Plants  

Iran Warns of Unprecedented “Global Economic Crisis”, if Trump Strikes Electricity Plants  
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese called for a “de-escalation” in the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran at the National Press Club on Thursday, 2 April 2026, as he considers the war objectives “have been realised”, while US president Donald Trump still plans on bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age”, and both leaders are ignoring that Tehran ...

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted
Eight New South Wales police officers smashed in the door of a Burwood apartment to arrest a 42-year-old woman sleeping inside the place located on Dharug land at 5 am on Thursday, 26 March 2026. She was then taken to the police station and charged with offences relating to her acts at a recent protest that was notable as it featured state law ...

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA
Victoria Police Port (Public Order Response Team) officers conducted eight raids upon properties around Naarm-Melbourne early morning on Friday, 27 March 2026, in order to apprehend eight women, who’d taken part in a nonviolent protest action involving the statue of Victorian feminist activist Zelda D’Apron that sits on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land ...

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 
New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during Question Time on 25 March 2026, as she attempted to provide NSW premier Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality that was unleashed upon the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land ...