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As Rinehart Seeks to Gift Stolen Land to Israel, the MAGA Playbook Is Well Underway

As Rinehart Seeks to Gift Stolen Land to Israel, the MAGA Playbook Is Well Underway

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, signalled that the MAGA playbook the Trump administration is reshaping the United States with doesn’t have to await a Pauline Hanson primeministership to be set in action here, when she suggested last week that parts of the country be handed over to Israeli weapons manufacturers and tech trillionaire Elon Musk ...
The Australian Health Regulator’s Stance on Israel Will Erode Rights and Harm Patients

The Australian Health Regulator’s Stance on Israel Will Erode Rights and Harm Patients

AHPRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, announced last week, alongside Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, that the nation’s national healthcare watchdog has adopted the IHRA working definition on antisemitism, which will not only silence criticism of Israel’s war crimes, but, ultimately, it will result ...
NSW Police Go Ballistic with Drug Dogs on Oxford Street, Again, to Destroy Pride Month

NSW Police Go Ballistic with Drug Dogs on Oxford Street, Again, to Destroy Pride Month

New South Wales police love to kill a party, and this month, it’s been targeting Pride celebrations, by running packs of officers and drug dogs through late night venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct, which has caused so much outrage and disappoint that the Sydney lord mayor and the Independent MP for Sydney have complained to ...
The Right to Abortion Is Under Threat: Interview with USYD Women’s Collective’s Grace Street

The Right to Abortion Is Under Threat: Interview with USYD Women’s Collective’s Grace Street

Right now, there is a rising multijurisdictional campaign seeking to chip away at the right to abortion in this country, and ultimately, to outlaw the practice. And whilst much of the community considered that reproductive justice was a right hard one but now secured, there is a piece of anti-abortion legislation soon up for debate in the New South ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Good Character Will No Longer Be a Mitigating Factor During Sentencing in NSW A new law will prohibit the use of prior good character when determining the penalty for a criminal offence in New South Wales. Click here to read the article The Offence of Throwing Objects at ...
The Thought Police Are Using the Protection of Kids to Justify the Expansion of Surveillance

The Thought Police Are Using the Protection of Kids to Justify the Expansion of Surveillance

The Australian federal police is seeking to use AI chatbots to monitor the activity of Australian children online to ensure they’re not being radicalised by terrorist and criminal networks, whilst the Queensland government is set to establish an intelligence hub that will have the ability to share information across state agencies to prevent child sex ...
Hanson’s Slick Delivery of Her One Nation Vision for Australia Should Alarm Us All

Hanson’s Slick Delivery of Her One Nation Vision for Australia Should Alarm Us All

One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club on 17 June 2026 should have the nation trembling in its boots, as the highly divisive nature of her dystopian and racist vision for a future Australia under her governance was matched by the slickness in the way in which the politician, who has long been mocked over her public ...
Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists

Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists

Four pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom were sentenced as terrorists last week in respect of criminal damage charges relating to a direct action on a factory near Bristol belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in August 2024. So, Australian pro-Palestinian activists currently asking why counterterrorism police have been ...
NSW Police Culture Is Rife with Bullying and Discrimination, Often Inflicted by Leaders

NSW Police Culture Is Rife with Bullying and Discrimination, Often Inflicted by Leaders

“Bullying, incivility, discrimination and victimisation” are rife in the culture of the New South Wales Police Force, a just released review has found. These forms of mistreatment are at “unacceptable levels” and pose “systemic risk”. And the NSWPF inquiry further found that whilst policing is “undergoing profound and rapid change”, internally our ...

As Rinehart Seeks to Gift Stolen Land to Israel, the MAGA Playbook Is Well Underway

As Rinehart Seeks to Gift Stolen Land to Israel, the MAGA Playbook Is Well Underway
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, signalled that the MAGA playbook the Trump administration is reshaping the United States with doesn’t have to await a Pauline Hanson primeministership to be set in action here, when she suggested last week that parts of the country be handed over to Israeli weapons manufacturers and tech trillionaire Elon Musk ...

The Australian Health Regulator’s Stance on Israel Will Erode Rights and Harm Patients

The Australian Health Regulator’s Stance on Israel Will Erode Rights and Harm Patients
AHPRA, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, announced last week, alongside Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal, that the nation’s national healthcare watchdog has adopted the IHRA working definition on antisemitism, which will not only silence criticism of Israel’s war crimes, but, ultimately, it will result ...

NSW Police Go Ballistic with Drug Dogs on Oxford Street, Again, to Destroy Pride Month

NSW Police Go Ballistic with Drug Dogs on Oxford Street, Again, to Destroy Pride Month
New South Wales police love to kill a party, and this month, it’s been targeting Pride celebrations, by running packs of officers and drug dogs through late night venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street precinct, which has caused so much outrage and disappoint that the Sydney lord mayor and the Independent MP for Sydney have complained to ...

The Right to Abortion Is Under Threat: Interview with USYD Women’s Collective’s Grace Street

The Right to Abortion Is Under Threat: Interview with USYD Women’s Collective’s Grace Street
Right now, there is a rising multijurisdictional campaign seeking to chip away at the right to abortion in this country, and ultimately, to outlaw the practice. And whilst much of the community considered that reproductive justice was a right hard one but now secured, there is a piece of anti-abortion legislation soon up for debate in the New South ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2026

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 15 to 21 June 2026
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Good Character Will No Longer Be a Mitigating Factor During Sentencing in NSW A new law will prohibit the use of prior good character when determining the penalty for a criminal offence in New South Wales. Click here to read the article The Offence of Throwing Objects at ...

The Thought Police Are Using the Protection of Kids to Justify the Expansion of Surveillance

The Thought Police Are Using the Protection of Kids to Justify the Expansion of Surveillance
The Australian federal police is seeking to use AI chatbots to monitor the activity of Australian children online to ensure they’re not being radicalised by terrorist and criminal networks, whilst the Queensland government is set to establish an intelligence hub that will have the ability to share information across state agencies to prevent child sex ...

Hanson’s Slick Delivery of Her One Nation Vision for Australia Should Alarm Us All

Hanson’s Slick Delivery of Her One Nation Vision for Australia Should Alarm Us All
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club on 17 June 2026 should have the nation trembling in its boots, as the highly divisive nature of her dystopian and racist vision for a future Australia under her governance was matched by the slickness in the way in which the politician, who has long been mocked over her public ...

Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists

Local Activists Ought to Take Heed, as UK Court Sentences Pro-Palestinians as Terrorists
Four pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom were sentenced as terrorists last week in respect of criminal damage charges relating to a direct action on a factory near Bristol belonging to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in August 2024. So, Australian pro-Palestinian activists currently asking why counterterrorism police have been ...

NSW Police Culture Is Rife with Bullying and Discrimination, Often Inflicted by Leaders

NSW Police Culture Is Rife with Bullying and Discrimination, Often Inflicted by Leaders
“Bullying, incivility, discrimination and victimisation” are rife in the culture of the New South Wales Police Force, a just released review has found. These forms of mistreatment are at “unacceptable levels” and pose “systemic risk”. And the NSWPF inquiry further found that whilst policing is “undergoing profound and rapid change”, internally our ...