New South Wales parliament is reconvening for its spring session on Tuesday, 15 September 2026, and before it is the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026, which the NSW Council for Civil Liberties has warned that despite its organised crime title should rather be called the NSW State Surveillance ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
Appeal Court Orders Judge to Remove Herself from Three Criminal Cases
The DPP successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to continue presiding over the cases despite her perceived bias against the prosecution.
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Thorpe’s ...
The Minns government has announced its third suite of organised crime laws this year. This came as the 52nd gangland shooting in Greater Sydney over 2026 transpired, and whilst this uptick in crime is spurring this series of legislative reform rollouts, the concern is that the increasing ability that New South Wales has police to surveil criminals is ...
Towards the end of last week, New South Wales premier Chris Minns and ASIO director general Mike Burgess appeared separately in The Australian in an apparent attempt to rewrite history around significant events that have been spurred locally by the Israeli perpetrated Gaza genocide, and in particular, around the notorious Sydney Opera House protest and ...
There is a datacentre crisis emerging in this state, as overseas big tech interests are racing down under to build facilities to store foreign owned data. However, most Australians haven’t got a clue about why this is happening and have rather, only half-noticed the imposition of strange large windowless buildings that hum in amongst suburban ...
Much of the coverage of increasingly influential billionaires since the 2025 second coming of the US Trump administration has involved a focus on the US kind. However, a recent Oxfam report reveals that just like US billionaires, those in Australia are continuing to increase their wealth exponentially, and just like in the States, over 2026, the local ...
Two women have been charged with common assault and using offensive language after they allegedly attacked a man near a bus stop on Gadigal land in the Sydney CBD.
Officers attached to the Sydney City Police Area Command received a report that the women made offensive remarks towards the man at a bus stop in Haymarket at about 3am on Saturday, 25 July ...
Australian defence minister Richard Marles posted to Instagram on 2 September 2026, as he was jogging at Pier 39 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marles was there meeting with Silicon Valley “tech companies, with frontier companies, about AI”. Yet, plans to further shackle our nation to Trump’s America, via artificial intelligence deals, is dubious when ...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practises that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women during childbirth and the strip searching of children. And as these bills are undergoing the committee process, she’s inviting the public to assist in their passing, in terms of the ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
The Defence Is Entitled to All Sufficiently Relevant Material, Including in Sexual Offence Cases
The appeal court ordered police to produce materials sought under subpoena despite their sensitive nature, as there was a ‘legitimate forensic purpose’ in obtaining them.
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Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops posted a clip online, which, having been anonymously supplied to it, went viral last weekend. The leaked footage involves a NSW police officer bragging about beating up a civilian, during the policing of the 9 February 2026 anti-Herzog protest on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall, which confirms that officers ...
The Minns government confirmed in a 27 August 2026 press release that it’s continuing with the New South Wales police crime-related drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in the NSW town of Moree for two more years, as well as looking to other regional areas for expansion of the ‘PolAir Remote’ program, with no assessment yet to be filed about how ...
New South Wales parliament is reconvening for its spring session on Tuesday, 15 September 2026, and before it is the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Further Organised Crimes Reforms) Bill 2026, which the NSW Council for Civil Liberties has warned that despite its organised crime title should rather be called the NSW State Surveillance ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
Appeal Court Orders Judge to Remove Herself from Three Criminal Cases
The DPP successfully appealed against a judge’s decision to continue presiding over the cases despite her perceived bias against the prosecution.
Click here to read the article
Thorpe’s ...
The Minns government has announced its third suite of organised crime laws this year. This came as the 52nd gangland shooting in Greater Sydney over 2026 transpired, and whilst this uptick in crime is spurring this series of legislative reform rollouts, the concern is that the increasing ability that New South Wales has police to surveil criminals is ...
Towards the end of last week, New South Wales premier Chris Minns and ASIO director general Mike Burgess appeared separately in The Australian in an apparent attempt to rewrite history around significant events that have been spurred locally by the Israeli perpetrated Gaza genocide, and in particular, around the notorious Sydney Opera House protest and ...
There is a datacentre crisis emerging in this state, as overseas big tech interests are racing down under to build facilities to store foreign owned data. However, most Australians haven’t got a clue about why this is happening and have rather, only half-noticed the imposition of strange large windowless buildings that hum in amongst suburban ...
Much of the coverage of increasingly influential billionaires since the 2025 second coming of the US Trump administration has involved a focus on the US kind. However, a recent Oxfam report reveals that just like US billionaires, those in Australia are continuing to increase their wealth exponentially, and just like in the States, over 2026, the local ...
Two women have been charged with common assault and using offensive language after they allegedly attacked a man near a bus stop on Gadigal land in the Sydney CBD.
Officers attached to the Sydney City Police Area Command received a report that the women made offensive remarks towards the man at a bus stop in Haymarket at about 3am on Saturday, 25 July ...
Australian defence minister Richard Marles posted to Instagram on 2 September 2026, as he was jogging at Pier 39 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marles was there meeting with Silicon Valley “tech companies, with frontier companies, about AI”. Yet, plans to further shackle our nation to Trump’s America, via artificial intelligence deals, is dubious when ...
Senator Lidia Thorpe has two bills before parliament that seek to prohibit practises that are frankly deplorable. These comprise of shackling incarcerated or detained women during childbirth and the strip searching of children. And as these bills are undergoing the committee process, she’s inviting the public to assist in their passing, in terms of the ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
The Defence Is Entitled to All Sufficiently Relevant Material, Including in Sexual Offence Cases
The appeal court ordered police to produce materials sought under subpoena despite their sensitive nature, as there was a ‘legitimate forensic purpose’ in obtaining them.
Click ...
Abolitionist collective Watch the Cops posted a clip online, which, having been anonymously supplied to it, went viral last weekend. The leaked footage involves a NSW police officer bragging about beating up a civilian, during the policing of the 9 February 2026 anti-Herzog protest on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall, which confirms that officers ...
The Minns government confirmed in a 27 August 2026 press release that it’s continuing with the New South Wales police crime-related drone surveillance on Gomeroi Country in the NSW town of Moree for two more years, as well as looking to other regional areas for expansion of the ‘PolAir Remote’ program, with no assessment yet to be filed about how ...
