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All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

During a 24 November 2025 US Department of State presser, an official told the foreign press that the Trump administration has ordered its embassies in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Canada to monitor local migrants in respect of crime. And while the Albanese government has failed to mention this, Greens Senator David Shoebridge warns that the ...
Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine was out on Country last month, which is located in northeastern so-called South Australia – north of the town of Ceduna – when she got word that Southern Launch, the private space company that runs the Koonibba Test Range, which happens to sit upon Googatha Country, would be running a test launch of a rocket in ...
Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty much blew those comprising the NSW reform campaign out the water, in terms of how far their ...
Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

White Australian nationalists are not new. What is, however, are the monthly nationwide far right protests occurring since August, which spout antiimmigration rhetoric and are linked to rising white supremacism in the UK and in the US, where a fascistic Trump administration reigns supreme. But the local far right is “fractured” and those mobilising ...
The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia

The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia

New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing State Crime Command Child Exploitation Internet Unit investigation into an alleged international satanic ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: DNA Evidence Ruled Inadmissible as “Investigator Mediated Contamination” Was Possible The court found that a DNA sample found in a firearm case was inadmissible as the police search was conducted incompetently. Click here to read the article The Offence of Shooting a ...
Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

The 27 November 2025 marked six months since Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, had his life cut short by two plainclothes police officers in Alice Springs Coles, and while the internal Northern Territory police investigation brief of evidence was handed to the NT Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2025, the young ...

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population

All Australians Should Be Concerned About the US Surveilling Our Migrant Population
During a 24 November 2025 US Department of State presser, an official told the foreign press that the Trump administration has ordered its embassies in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and Canada to monitor local migrants in respect of crime. And while the Albanese government has failed to mention this, Greens Senator David Shoebridge warns that the ...

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country

Googatha Elder Aunty Sue Haseldine on the Imposition of the Koonibba Test Range on Country
Googatha elder Aunty Sue Haseldine was out on Country last month, which is located in northeastern so-called South Australia – north of the town of Ceduna – when she got word that Southern Launch, the private space company that runs the Koonibba Test Range, which happens to sit upon Googatha Country, would be running a test launch of a rocket in ...

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann

Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty much blew those comprising the NSW reform campaign out the water, in terms of how far their ...

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak

Preventing the “Fractured Far Right” from Gaining Traction: Palestinian Organiser Tasnim Sammak
White Australian nationalists are not new. What is, however, are the monthly nationwide far right protests occurring since August, which spout antiimmigration rhetoric and are linked to rising white supremacism in the UK and in the US, where a fascistic Trump administration reigns supreme. But the local far right is “fractured” and those mobilising ...

The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia

The Offence of Possessing, Controlling, Producing or Supplying Child Abuse Material in Australia
New South Wales Police Sex Crime Squad detectives from Strike Force Constantine executed six search warrants across Gadigal land in the Sydney suburbs of Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar at 7am on Thursday, 25 November 2025, in respect of an ongoing State Crime Command Child Exploitation Internet Unit investigation into an alleged international satanic ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 1 to 7 December 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: DNA Evidence Ruled Inadmissible as “Investigator Mediated Contamination” Was Possible The court found that a DNA sample found in a firearm case was inadmissible as the police search was conducted incompetently. Click here to read the article The Offence of Shooting a ...

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death

Authorities Continue in Refusal to Disclose Circumstances Surrounding First Nations Death
The 27 November 2025 marked six months since Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, had his life cut short by two plainclothes police officers in Alice Springs Coles, and while the internal Northern Territory police investigation brief of evidence was handed to the NT Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2025, the young ...