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Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States

Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States

The date has been set for the appeal against the extradition of Australian citizen Daniel Duggan to the United States over highly dubious accusations regarding flight training in South Africa. Dan is set challenge his extradition to the Federal Court of Australia on 26 August 2025. Yet, after having been dragged across hot coals in a variety of ways, ...
Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur

Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur

A Chinese woman was violently attacked by a group of seven non-Asian teenagers, aged between 11 and 16, on Gadigal land in the Sydney eastern suburb of Eastgardens within the grounds of her apartment block on 21 May 2025. And the woman’s Chinese husband and another woman passing by attempted to intervene. The incident led locals to run an online ...
“The Creeping Erasure of Our Identity in Broome”: Interview with Djukun Nation’s Jaala Ozies 

“The Creeping Erasure of Our Identity in Broome”: Interview with Djukun Nation’s Jaala Ozies 

The Yawuru and Djukun peoples are jointly recognised as the native title holders in Jirr-Ngin-Ngan, which is also known as the town of Broome, and is located in the northwestern Kimberley region of Western Australia. This native title claim, known as the Rubibi Community claim, was recognised by a 2005 Federal Court of Australia decision. However, ...
Israel Is Brazenly Perpetrating International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit

Israel Is Brazenly Perpetrating International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit

In the final days of last week, apartheid Israel cut the internet and all communications in the Gaza Strip, where it’s perpetrating a 20-month-long extermination program against the Palestinian civilians living in the region, while it too laid siege to the West Bank, before the Zionist state went on to perpetrate a massive aerial attack upon the ...
NSW Premier Has Refused to Appear Before the Dural Caravan Inquiry

NSW Premier Has Refused to Appear Before the Dural Caravan Inquiry

NSW premier Chris Minns confirmed on Tuesday. 17 June 2025 that he’s refusing to appear before the NSW upper house inquiry that’s trying to ascertain how much he knew regarding police considering an explosive-laden caravan found on a Dural property was likely a “fake terror plot”, prior to his passing a swag of criminal offences based on the incident, ...
The Issue of Police Investigating Police Over Aboriginal Custody Deaths Is Finally Becoming National Issue

The Issue of Police Investigating Police Over Aboriginal Custody Deaths Is Finally Becoming National Issue

The persistent calls for an independent investigation into the 27 May 2025 death in police custody of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White, which would involve a body other than the Northern Territory Police Force, which is the law enforcement agency that employs the officers who killed the 24-year-old man in response to alleged shoplifting in Coles Alice ...
Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges

Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges

The NSW Police Force has confirmed that 176 people were arrested, 326 criminal charges laid, and 10 knives seized during the latest four-day public transport blitz under Operation Waratah 4. Launched in 2024, Operation Waratah is a high-visibility operation that police say is aimed at detecting and disrupting criminal conduct across the Sydney ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 June 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 June 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Justice Package 2025: Courtrooms for Vulnerable Complainants and More Prison Cells Courtrooms will be fitted to assist vulnerable complainants and more prison cells built for the rise in those held on remand. Click here to read the article Kumanjayi White’s Killing Has ...
As an Authoritarian Trump Threatens AUKUS, Australia Should Rethink Its US Alliance

As an Authoritarian Trump Threatens AUKUS, Australia Should Rethink Its US Alliance

The USA is Australia’s closest ally. Yet, right now, it’s president, Donald Trump is attempting to establish a dictatorship, he’s unleashed a military-led assault on the US domestic population, he’s warned that war with China is potentially “imminent”, and he’s been bullying other nations, both allies and foe, into submission, and at present, Australia ...

Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States

Dan Duggan Appeals Decision to Extradite to an Authoritarian United States
The date has been set for the appeal against the extradition of Australian citizen Daniel Duggan to the United States over highly dubious accusations regarding flight training in South Africa. Dan is set challenge his extradition to the Federal Court of Australia on 26 August 2025. Yet, after having been dragged across hot coals in a variety of ways, ...

Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur

Community-Led Safety Is Needed, Not Racist Policing, Says Pride in Protest’s Harpreet Kaur
A Chinese woman was violently attacked by a group of seven non-Asian teenagers, aged between 11 and 16, on Gadigal land in the Sydney eastern suburb of Eastgardens within the grounds of her apartment block on 21 May 2025. And the woman’s Chinese husband and another woman passing by attempted to intervene. The incident led locals to run an online ...

“The Creeping Erasure of Our Identity in Broome”: Interview with Djukun Nation’s Jaala Ozies 

“The Creeping Erasure of Our Identity in Broome”: Interview with Djukun Nation’s Jaala Ozies 
The Yawuru and Djukun peoples are jointly recognised as the native title holders in Jirr-Ngin-Ngan, which is also known as the town of Broome, and is located in the northwestern Kimberley region of Western Australia. This native title claim, known as the Rubibi Community claim, was recognised by a 2005 Federal Court of Australia decision. However, ...

Israel Is Brazenly Perpetrating International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit

Israel Is Brazenly Perpetrating International Criminal Offences, And The West is Complicit
In the final days of last week, apartheid Israel cut the internet and all communications in the Gaza Strip, where it’s perpetrating a 20-month-long extermination program against the Palestinian civilians living in the region, while it too laid siege to the West Bank, before the Zionist state went on to perpetrate a massive aerial attack upon the ...

NSW Premier Has Refused to Appear Before the Dural Caravan Inquiry

NSW Premier Has Refused to Appear Before the Dural Caravan Inquiry
NSW premier Chris Minns confirmed on Tuesday. 17 June 2025 that he’s refusing to appear before the NSW upper house inquiry that’s trying to ascertain how much he knew regarding police considering an explosive-laden caravan found on a Dural property was likely a “fake terror plot”, prior to his passing a swag of criminal offences based on the incident, ...

The Issue of Police Investigating Police Over Aboriginal Custody Deaths Is Finally Becoming National Issue

The Issue of Police Investigating Police Over Aboriginal Custody Deaths Is Finally Becoming National Issue
The persistent calls for an independent investigation into the 27 May 2025 death in police custody of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi White, which would involve a body other than the Northern Territory Police Force, which is the law enforcement agency that employs the officers who killed the 24-year-old man in response to alleged shoplifting in Coles Alice ...

Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges

Police Blitz on NSW Public Transport Network Results in Hundreds of Criminal Charges
The NSW Police Force has confirmed that 176 people were arrested, 326 criminal charges laid, and 10 knives seized during the latest four-day public transport blitz under Operation Waratah 4. Launched in 2024, Operation Waratah is a high-visibility operation that police say is aimed at detecting and disrupting criminal conduct across the Sydney ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 June 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 9 to 15 June 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: NSW Justice Package 2025: Courtrooms for Vulnerable Complainants and More Prison Cells Courtrooms will be fitted to assist vulnerable complainants and more prison cells built for the rise in those held on remand. Click here to read the article Kumanjayi White’s Killing Has ...

As an Authoritarian Trump Threatens AUKUS, Australia Should Rethink Its US Alliance

As an Authoritarian Trump Threatens AUKUS, Australia Should Rethink Its US Alliance
The USA is Australia’s closest ally. Yet, right now, it’s president, Donald Trump is attempting to establish a dictatorship, he’s unleashed a military-led assault on the US domestic population, he’s warned that war with China is potentially “imminent”, and he’s been bullying other nations, both allies and foe, into submission, and at present, Australia ...