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Australia Is Facing Unprecedented Foreign Threats, With Three Nations Willing to Kill Locally

Australia Is Facing Unprecedented Foreign Threats, With Three Nations Willing to Kill Locally

As he gave the 2025 Lowy Lecture on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 4 November 2025, ASIO director general Mike Burgess didn’t exactly convey a carefree future, as the spy boss warned of accelerating threats in three key areas: espionage, foreign interference and politically motivated violence. And on top of that, agents from three other nations ...
Pride in Protest Lead Candidate Luna Choo on Keeping Mardi Gras Honest

Pride in Protest Lead Candidate Luna Choo on Keeping Mardi Gras Honest

“Pride in Protest stands with the Palestinian people and their resistance, including the BDS movement. Shamefully, Mardi Gras is partnering with the company Fuzzy, which is investing in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza genocide,” said Pride in Protest lead candidate for the Mardi Gras board this year Luna Choo. “We will not sponsor ...
Exposing the Institutions Responsible: Gerry Georgatos on Cleveland Dodd’s Death in Custody

Exposing the Institutions Responsible: Gerry Georgatos on Cleveland Dodd’s Death in Custody

Tireless social justice advocate Gerry Georgatos has just completed the soon-to-be officially released novel Cleveland Dodd: Child of the Desert Sunrise, which is an account of the death in custody of 16-year-old Yamatji boy Cleveland Dodd, who died in the custody of WA corrective services, as it was detaining him in an adult prison, which is ...
Sydney Uni Protesters Vindicated, as No Evidence of Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Exists

Sydney Uni Protesters Vindicated, as No Evidence of Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Exists

As local university students took their cue from US counterparts and commenced on campus Gaza solidarity encampments in April 2024, a moral panic arose around a suggested proliferation of complaints about antisemitic incidents at tertiary institutions. But the NSW institution understood to be the chief offender, Sydney University, has revealed it has ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 27 October to 2 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 27 October to 2 November 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: An Outline of the Proposed Human Rights Act for New South Wales The proposed law seeks to entrench rights such as free association, peaceful assembly and privacy, and against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Click here to read the article The Offence of ...
Neo-Nazis Are Launching the White Australia Party to Run in the Next Federal Election

Neo-Nazis Are Launching the White Australia Party to Run in the Next Federal Election

White Australia NSW held a meeting in a hall in Greater Sydney on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, and as the photos of speakers involved at the event reveal, this is the political party the National Socialist Network, or the NSN, has launched as a contender for federal elections, and participants at the event shared white supremacist ideals and a ...
NSW Government Is Chief Sponsor of the Sydney International Weapons Expo

NSW Government Is Chief Sponsor of the Sydney International Weapons Expo

Despite a ceasefire in respect of the Gaza genocide being in place, Israel is continuing to conduct air strikes in the strip periodically, while its intensifying attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, which, according to the NSW Minns government, is an ideal time to host a weapons fair on Gadigal land at Sydney’s International Convention Centre. The ...
A Malicious Abuse of Police Powers: ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore on His Suing Police Trifecta

A Malicious Abuse of Police Powers: ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore on His Suing Police Trifecta

The hearing of the cost application relating to the malicious prosecution case that Luke Brett Moore launched against the state of NSW has been handed down, and the court stipulated that the state must pay 88 percent of the law graduate and strip search activist’s court costs, which means that the $450,000 he was awarded in damages will actually serve ...
NSW to Review Presumption that Children Cannot Be Guilty of Criminal Offences

NSW to Review Presumption that Children Cannot Be Guilty of Criminal Offences

The New South Wales Attorney-General has commissioned a review tasked with determining whether a legal doctrine – known as doli incapax – which presumes children aged between 10 and 14 years are incapable of forming the mental component of criminal offences, and cannot therefore be found guilty unless the prosecution proves otherwise – should be ...

Australia Is Facing Unprecedented Foreign Threats, With Three Nations Willing to Kill Locally

Australia Is Facing Unprecedented Foreign Threats, With Three Nations Willing to Kill Locally
As he gave the 2025 Lowy Lecture on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 4 November 2025, ASIO director general Mike Burgess didn’t exactly convey a carefree future, as the spy boss warned of accelerating threats in three key areas: espionage, foreign interference and politically motivated violence. And on top of that, agents from three other nations ...

Pride in Protest Lead Candidate Luna Choo on Keeping Mardi Gras Honest

Pride in Protest Lead Candidate Luna Choo on Keeping Mardi Gras Honest
“Pride in Protest stands with the Palestinian people and their resistance, including the BDS movement. Shamefully, Mardi Gras is partnering with the company Fuzzy, which is investing in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza genocide,” said Pride in Protest lead candidate for the Mardi Gras board this year Luna Choo. “We will not sponsor ...

Exposing the Institutions Responsible: Gerry Georgatos on Cleveland Dodd’s Death in Custody

Exposing the Institutions Responsible: Gerry Georgatos on Cleveland Dodd’s Death in Custody
Tireless social justice advocate Gerry Georgatos has just completed the soon-to-be officially released novel Cleveland Dodd: Child of the Desert Sunrise, which is an account of the death in custody of 16-year-old Yamatji boy Cleveland Dodd, who died in the custody of WA corrective services, as it was detaining him in an adult prison, which is ...

Sydney Uni Protesters Vindicated, as No Evidence of Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Exists

Sydney Uni Protesters Vindicated, as No Evidence of Antisemitic Incidents on Campus Exists
As local university students took their cue from US counterparts and commenced on campus Gaza solidarity encampments in April 2024, a moral panic arose around a suggested proliferation of complaints about antisemitic incidents at tertiary institutions. But the NSW institution understood to be the chief offender, Sydney University, has revealed it has ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 27 October to 2 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 27 October to 2 November 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: An Outline of the Proposed Human Rights Act for New South Wales The proposed law seeks to entrench rights such as free association, peaceful assembly and privacy, and against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Click here to read the article The Offence of ...

Neo-Nazis Are Launching the White Australia Party to Run in the Next Federal Election

Neo-Nazis Are Launching the White Australia Party to Run in the Next Federal Election
White Australia NSW held a meeting in a hall in Greater Sydney on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, and as the photos of speakers involved at the event reveal, this is the political party the National Socialist Network, or the NSN, has launched as a contender for federal elections, and participants at the event shared white supremacist ideals and a ...

NSW Government Is Chief Sponsor of the Sydney International Weapons Expo

NSW Government Is Chief Sponsor of the Sydney International Weapons Expo
Despite a ceasefire in respect of the Gaza genocide being in place, Israel is continuing to conduct air strikes in the strip periodically, while its intensifying attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, which, according to the NSW Minns government, is an ideal time to host a weapons fair on Gadigal land at Sydney’s International Convention Centre. The ...

A Malicious Abuse of Police Powers: ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore on His Suing Police Trifecta

A Malicious Abuse of Police Powers: ISUEPOLICE’s Luke Brett Moore on His Suing Police Trifecta
The hearing of the cost application relating to the malicious prosecution case that Luke Brett Moore launched against the state of NSW has been handed down, and the court stipulated that the state must pay 88 percent of the law graduate and strip search activist’s court costs, which means that the $450,000 he was awarded in damages will actually serve ...

NSW to Review Presumption that Children Cannot Be Guilty of Criminal Offences

NSW to Review Presumption that Children Cannot Be Guilty of Criminal Offences
The New South Wales Attorney-General has commissioned a review tasked with determining whether a legal doctrine – known as doli incapax – which presumes children aged between 10 and 14 years are incapable of forming the mental component of criminal offences, and cannot therefore be found guilty unless the prosecution proves otherwise – should be ...