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The Offence of Using, Publishing or Communicating Protected Information in NSW

The Offence of Using, Publishing or Communicating Protected Information in NSW

A New South Wales police officer pleaded guilty to intentionally publishing protected information after sending a video that he took on his mobile telephone of him and another officer brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was experiencing a mental health episode in Sydney’s west. The officers also pleaded guilty to several assault ...
Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform

Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform

Two New South Wales police officers recently pleaded guilty to several assault charges and unauthorised use of a prohibited weapon after brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping on her, spraying her on six separate occasions with capsicum spray – including ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 July 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Centralised Virtual Bail Court Regime Commences in NSW A new regime whereby bail applications in regional areas are decided by city magistrates via video-link commenced today. Click here to read the article Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not ...
NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman

NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman

Two New South Wales police officers have pleaded guilty to criminal offences after their body worn cameras filmed them approaching a naked 48-year old woman who was clearly in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping on the woman, spraying her genitals and face with capsicum spray, mocking her, bragging to one another that ...
Racist NT Cop Killed Aboriginal Teen for Adrenaline Rush and Likely Expected to Get Off

Racist NT Cop Killed Aboriginal Teen for Adrenaline Rush and Likely Expected to Get Off

In delivering a summary of her mammoth final findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, Northern Territory coroner Elisabeth Armitage found that former NT police constable Zachary Rolfe was known to dehumanise and devalue Aboriginal people, he routinely prioritised the use of excessive force, he worked for an institution that fosters racism, and all ...
Yoorook Justice Commission Confirms Genocide Was Committed to Establish Victoria

Yoorook Justice Commission Confirms Genocide Was Committed to Establish Victoria

Established in 2021, the Yoorook Justice Commission tabled its gigantic final report in Victorian parliament on 1 July 2025. The Yoorook commission examined the colonisation of “the lands now known as Victoria” and found this involved the British violently invading “Gunditjmara Country in 1834”, before moving on to Kulin Country the following year and ...
Numerous NSW Antisemitism Inquiry Witnesses Highlight McCarthyite Witch Hunt Underway

Numerous NSW Antisemitism Inquiry Witnesses Highlight McCarthyite Witch Hunt Underway

“I am here because… my experience is instructive and disturbing: because of its effects on others in the media. I was accused of antisemitism because my social media account relentlessly, but not exclusively, highlighted the slaughter of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government by retweeting updates from the conflict,” celebrated cricket ...
Manufacturing Moral Panic: Melbourne Attacks Likely Have Nothing to do with Antisemitism

Manufacturing Moral Panic: Melbourne Attacks Likely Have Nothing to do with Antisemitism

An East Melbourne synagogue was subjected to an arson attack at around 8 pm last Friday night, 4 July 2025, and while details remain sketchy, many people living on Gadigal land in Sydney are questioning the legitimacy of the intent behind it, while others are fuming about the antisemitic attack on a place of worship being conflated with other incidents ...
Kostakidis to Go Before Court, After Judiciary Recognises Anti-Zionism is Not Antisemitism  

Kostakidis to Go Before Court, After Judiciary Recognises Anti-Zionism is Not Antisemitism  

Mary Kostakidis should hold her head up high right now, because of all the Australian journalists that are honestly calling out the holocaust that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians, the Israel lobby singled her out to attempt to silence via the Federal Court, because obviously she’s been making the most impact amongst this group, and in a ...
NSW Police Assaulted Hannah Thomas Then “Reversed Engineered” Charge to Frame Her as Rioter

NSW Police Assaulted Hannah Thomas Then “Reversed Engineered” Charge to Frame Her as Rioter

The grievous assault some NSW police officers perpetrated on former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas on 27 June 2025 was a step too far, according to a majority of NSW. So, the fact it’s now come to light that NSW police, prior to calling a critical incident, tried to charge her under rioting powers that need special authorisation, makes it abundantly ...
Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not Antisemitic

Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not Antisemitic

Around 20 antigenocide and pro-Palestinian activists protested the Miznon restaurant in the Naarm-Melbourne CBD last Friday night, 4 July 2025, as the Israeli owner of the establishment, Shahar Segal, is also the spokesperson for the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), which is marketed as an aid agency operating in the Gaza Strip, but has ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 June to 6 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 June to 6 July 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Centralised Bail Saga in NSW Continues Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern explains that the new regime whereby city magistrates decide regional bail matters is flawed and problematic. Click here to read the article Bail Refused for Alleged Murderer Despite Having ...

The Offence of Using, Publishing or Communicating Protected Information in NSW

The Offence of Using, Publishing or Communicating Protected Information in NSW
A New South Wales police officer pleaded guilty to intentionally publishing protected information after sending a video that he took on his mobile telephone of him and another officer brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was experiencing a mental health episode in Sydney’s west. The officers also pleaded guilty to several assault ...

Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform

Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform
Two New South Wales police officers recently pleaded guilty to several assault charges and unauthorised use of a prohibited weapon after brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping on her, spraying her on six separate occasions with capsicum spray – including ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 7 to 13 July 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Centralised Virtual Bail Court Regime Commences in NSW A new regime whereby bail applications in regional areas are decided by city magistrates via video-link commenced today. Click here to read the article Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not ...

NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman

NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman
Two New South Wales police officers have pleaded guilty to criminal offences after their body worn cameras filmed them approaching a naked 48-year old woman who was clearly in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping on the woman, spraying her genitals and face with capsicum spray, mocking her, bragging to one another that ...

Racist NT Cop Killed Aboriginal Teen for Adrenaline Rush and Likely Expected to Get Off

Racist NT Cop Killed Aboriginal Teen for Adrenaline Rush and Likely Expected to Get Off
In delivering a summary of her mammoth final findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, Northern Territory coroner Elisabeth Armitage found that former NT police constable Zachary Rolfe was known to dehumanise and devalue Aboriginal people, he routinely prioritised the use of excessive force, he worked for an institution that fosters racism, and all ...

Yoorook Justice Commission Confirms Genocide Was Committed to Establish Victoria

Yoorook Justice Commission Confirms Genocide Was Committed to Establish Victoria
Established in 2021, the Yoorook Justice Commission tabled its gigantic final report in Victorian parliament on 1 July 2025. The Yoorook commission examined the colonisation of “the lands now known as Victoria” and found this involved the British violently invading “Gunditjmara Country in 1834”, before moving on to Kulin Country the following year and ...

Numerous NSW Antisemitism Inquiry Witnesses Highlight McCarthyite Witch Hunt Underway

Numerous NSW Antisemitism Inquiry Witnesses Highlight McCarthyite Witch Hunt Underway
“I am here because… my experience is instructive and disturbing: because of its effects on others in the media. I was accused of antisemitism because my social media account relentlessly, but not exclusively, highlighted the slaughter of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government by retweeting updates from the conflict,” celebrated cricket ...

Manufacturing Moral Panic: Melbourne Attacks Likely Have Nothing to do with Antisemitism

Manufacturing Moral Panic: Melbourne Attacks Likely Have Nothing to do with Antisemitism
An East Melbourne synagogue was subjected to an arson attack at around 8 pm last Friday night, 4 July 2025, and while details remain sketchy, many people living on Gadigal land in Sydney are questioning the legitimacy of the intent behind it, while others are fuming about the antisemitic attack on a place of worship being conflated with other incidents ...

Kostakidis to Go Before Court, After Judiciary Recognises Anti-Zionism is Not Antisemitism  

Kostakidis to Go Before Court, After Judiciary Recognises Anti-Zionism is Not Antisemitism  
Mary Kostakidis should hold her head up high right now, because of all the Australian journalists that are honestly calling out the holocaust that Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians, the Israel lobby singled her out to attempt to silence via the Federal Court, because obviously she’s been making the most impact amongst this group, and in a ...

NSW Police Assaulted Hannah Thomas Then “Reversed Engineered” Charge to Frame Her as Rioter

NSW Police Assaulted Hannah Thomas Then “Reversed Engineered” Charge to Frame Her as Rioter
The grievous assault some NSW police officers perpetrated on former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas on 27 June 2025 was a step too far, according to a majority of NSW. So, the fact it’s now come to light that NSW police, prior to calling a critical incident, tried to charge her under rioting powers that need special authorisation, makes it abundantly ...

Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not Antisemitic

Protesters Outside Melbourne Restaurant Were Antigenocide, Not Antisemitic
Around 20 antigenocide and pro-Palestinian activists protested the Miznon restaurant in the Naarm-Melbourne CBD last Friday night, 4 July 2025, as the Israeli owner of the establishment, Shahar Segal, is also the spokesperson for the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), which is marketed as an aid agency operating in the Gaza Strip, but has ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 June to 6 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 30 June to 6 July 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Centralised Bail Saga in NSW Continues Former NSW Magistrate David Heilpern explains that the new regime whereby city magistrates decide regional bail matters is flawed and problematic. Click here to read the article Bail Refused for Alleged Murderer Despite Having ...