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NSW Police Officer Referred to DPP for Potential Criminal Charges Over Serious Misconduct

NSW Police Officer Referred to DPP for Potential Criminal Charges Over Serious Misconduct

The New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), released a report this week finding that a police officer used excessive force on six occasions over 10 weeks in early 2024, as well a submerged two body-word video (BWV) devices in water to destroy evidence. The police watchdog concluded that the officer’s actions amount to serious ...
NACC Commissioner Brereton and the Conflict-of-Interest Scandal That Keeps on Giving

NACC Commissioner Brereton and the Conflict-of-Interest Scandal That Keeps on Giving

NACC commissioner Paul Brereton’s conflict-of-interest scandal continues to unfold, as the official understanding earlier this year, that he’d resigned his role as assistant to the Inspector General of the ADF in May 2023, had shifted to his having maintained a limited consultative role to the IGADF but only on 11 occasions since heading the watchdog, ...
Victorian Government to Impose Adult Sentences for Violent Youth Crime

Victorian Government to Impose Adult Sentences for Violent Youth Crime

“All children 14 and above committing violent crimes – like invading someone’s home or injuring someone with a machete in a sickening act of violence – will face adult sentences in adult courts, under Adult Time for Violent Crime,” said the Victorian Allan government on 12 November 2025, as it announced yet further extreme youth crime amendments in ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 November 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: An Outline of the NSW Review of Doli Incapax Findings and Recommendations The review recommends that legislation be passed to clarify the common law presumption that kids between 10 and 13 are incapable of committing crimes. Click here to read the article The Criminal ...
NSW Government to Reintroduce Antiprotest Move-On Power, After Police Approve Nazi Rally

NSW Government to Reintroduce Antiprotest Move-On Power, After Police Approve Nazi Rally

Our government is using the decision by police to authorise a neo-Nazi protest to reintroduce unconstitutional laws empowering police to issue move on directions at places of worship. The salve New South Wales premier Chris Minns and attorney general Michael Daley have conceived in respect of neo-Nazi entity White Australia, or the gang formerly known ...
The Finks Bikie Gang Is Providing Security for Noncitizens Detained on Nauru

The Finks Bikie Gang Is Providing Security for Noncitizens Detained on Nauru

Former Australian Army rifleman Oisin Donohoe publicly revealed on 8 November 2025, that on being recruited to be part of a privately-run security operation that launched last week on the island of Nauru and is charged with providing security in respect of a cohort of “unlawful noncitizens”, he learnt that his new employers would actually be members of ...
Critics Call High Time on NSW Police as First Responders, as Labor Contemplates Change

Critics Call High Time on NSW Police as First Responders, as Labor Contemplates Change

“Nearly sixteen weeks ago, I stood at my bedroom window on 15 July at 2.15 am. I watched my partner downstairs, he’s looking at the fire truck, going, “What happened just there?”, said Taite Collins on Gadigal land before Sydney Town Hall on 1 November 2025. Collins was the partner of Colin Burling, whose life was taken at the scene as attending New ...
“The Police Attacked Us”: Activist Josh Lees on Protesting the Indo Pacific Weapons Fest

“The Police Attacked Us”: Activist Josh Lees on Protesting the Indo Pacific Weapons Fest

The images that emerged out of the Palestine Action Group-led protest against the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition on Tuesday 4 November 2025, revealed demonstrators confined within Tumbalong Park behind a barrier and close by the International Convention Centre, where the festival of killing devices was being staged on Gadigal land in ...

NSW Police Officer Referred to DPP for Potential Criminal Charges Over Serious Misconduct

NSW Police Officer Referred to DPP for Potential Criminal Charges Over Serious Misconduct
The New South Wales Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), released a report this week finding that a police officer used excessive force on six occasions over 10 weeks in early 2024, as well a submerged two body-word video (BWV) devices in water to destroy evidence. The police watchdog concluded that the officer’s actions amount to serious ...

NACC Commissioner Brereton and the Conflict-of-Interest Scandal That Keeps on Giving

NACC Commissioner Brereton and the Conflict-of-Interest Scandal That Keeps on Giving
NACC commissioner Paul Brereton’s conflict-of-interest scandal continues to unfold, as the official understanding earlier this year, that he’d resigned his role as assistant to the Inspector General of the ADF in May 2023, had shifted to his having maintained a limited consultative role to the IGADF but only on 11 occasions since heading the watchdog, ...

Victorian Government to Impose Adult Sentences for Violent Youth Crime

Victorian Government to Impose Adult Sentences for Violent Youth Crime
“All children 14 and above committing violent crimes – like invading someone’s home or injuring someone with a machete in a sickening act of violence – will face adult sentences in adult courts, under Adult Time for Violent Crime,” said the Victorian Allan government on 12 November 2025, as it announced yet further extreme youth crime amendments in ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 November 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 10 to 16 November 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: An Outline of the NSW Review of Doli Incapax Findings and Recommendations The review recommends that legislation be passed to clarify the common law presumption that kids between 10 and 13 are incapable of committing crimes. Click here to read the article The Criminal ...

NSW Government to Reintroduce Antiprotest Move-On Power, After Police Approve Nazi Rally

NSW Government to Reintroduce Antiprotest Move-On Power, After Police Approve Nazi Rally
Our government is using the decision by police to authorise a neo-Nazi protest to reintroduce unconstitutional laws empowering police to issue move on directions at places of worship. The salve New South Wales premier Chris Minns and attorney general Michael Daley have conceived in respect of neo-Nazi entity White Australia, or the gang formerly known ...

The Finks Bikie Gang Is Providing Security for Noncitizens Detained on Nauru

The Finks Bikie Gang Is Providing Security for Noncitizens Detained on Nauru
Former Australian Army rifleman Oisin Donohoe publicly revealed on 8 November 2025, that on being recruited to be part of a privately-run security operation that launched last week on the island of Nauru and is charged with providing security in respect of a cohort of “unlawful noncitizens”, he learnt that his new employers would actually be members of ...

Critics Call High Time on NSW Police as First Responders, as Labor Contemplates Change

Critics Call High Time on NSW Police as First Responders, as Labor Contemplates Change
“Nearly sixteen weeks ago, I stood at my bedroom window on 15 July at 2.15 am. I watched my partner downstairs, he’s looking at the fire truck, going, “What happened just there?”, said Taite Collins on Gadigal land before Sydney Town Hall on 1 November 2025. Collins was the partner of Colin Burling, whose life was taken at the scene as attending New ...

“The Police Attacked Us”: Activist Josh Lees on Protesting the Indo Pacific Weapons Fest

“The Police Attacked Us”: Activist Josh Lees on Protesting the Indo Pacific Weapons Fest
The images that emerged out of the Palestine Action Group-led protest against the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition on Tuesday 4 November 2025, revealed demonstrators confined within Tumbalong Park behind a barrier and close by the International Convention Centre, where the festival of killing devices was being staged on Gadigal land in ...