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NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

Eight New South Wales police officers smashed in the door of a Burwood apartment to arrest a 42-year-old woman sleeping inside the place located on Dharug land at 5 am on Thursday, 26 March 2026. She was then taken to the police station and charged with offences relating to her acts at a recent protest that was notable as it featured state law ...
Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Victoria Police Port (Public Order Response Team) officers conducted eight raids upon properties around Naarm-Melbourne early morning on Friday, 27 March 2026, in order to apprehend eight women, who’d taken part in a nonviolent protest action involving the statue of Victorian feminist activist Zelda D’Apron that sits on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land ...
NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during Question Time on 25 March 2026, as she attempted to provide NSW premier Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality that was unleashed upon the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 March 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Severity Appeal Succeeds as Material Containing Unproven Charges “Infected” Sentencing The appeal court ordered that the defendant be resentenced as the prosecution tendered material regarding past allegations that had not been proven. Click here to read the article The ...
Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...
Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Despite it being announced the night prior that they would be in attendance, when prime minister Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Tony Burke turned up at Lakemba Mosque during the end of Ramadan Eid celebration last Friday, 20 March 2026, a significant number of worshippers decried their attendance at the event, claiming their political ...
Australia Bans Entry to Iranian Visa Holders Who Are Fleeing the Illegal War 

Australia Bans Entry to Iranian Visa Holders Who Are Fleeing the Illegal War 

The US and Israel began their war of aggression on Iran on 28 February 2026, based on the pretext of saving the Iranian people from the tyranny of their government. Australia was the first nation to extol the virtues of this mission, yet then it promptly passed laws allowing it to impose a ban on 7,000-odd Iranians with valid visas from entering this ...
NSW Government Attempts “Stealth Attack” to “Hollow Out” Aboriginal Land Rights

NSW Government Attempts “Stealth Attack” to “Hollow Out” Aboriginal Land Rights

The New South Wales government has put its attempt to silently pass legislation which would have eroded land rights on hold after being called out by the Aboriginal Land Council. The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council confirmed on 20 March 2026, that Aboriginal land rights are under “an attack by stealth” from the NSW Minns government, as it ...
“A Reactionary, Pro-Big Business, Racist Party”: Victorian Socialists Call Out Hanson’s One Nation

“A Reactionary, Pro-Big Business, Racist Party”: Victorian Socialists Call Out Hanson’s One Nation

On Saturday, 21 March 2026, members of Victorian Socialists went out to speak with communities across four locations in Naarm-Melbourne. And the discussions they engaged in with local community members revolved around why there is a growing need for a coordinated pushback against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party’s divisive politicking. The reason that ...
ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Powers to Be Made Permanent

ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Powers to Be Made Permanent

Legislation set to make ASIO’s “compulsory questioning powers” permanent is before the Senate, after passing the lower house in mid-February 2026. And that it is Labor championing this reform, which will further broaden the scope of the nation’s chief spying agency’s ability to question non-suspects for up to 24 hours, reveals just how far to the right ...

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted

NSW Police Are Raiding, Arresting and Charging the Herzog Protesters They Assaulted
Eight New South Wales police officers smashed in the door of a Burwood apartment to arrest a 42-year-old woman sleeping inside the place located on Dharug land at 5 am on Thursday, 26 March 2026. She was then taken to the police station and charged with offences relating to her acts at a recent protest that was notable as it featured state law ...

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA

Escalation in Tactics, as VicPol Raid Nonviolent Zelda8 Protesters: Interview with WACA
Victoria Police Port (Public Order Response Team) officers conducted eight raids upon properties around Naarm-Melbourne early morning on Friday, 27 March 2026, in order to apprehend eight women, who’d taken part in a nonviolent protest action involving the statue of Victorian feminist activist Zelda D’Apron that sits on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land ...

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 

NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest 
New South Wales Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during Question Time on 25 March 2026, as she attempted to provide NSW premier Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality that was unleashed upon the 9 February 2026 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 23 to 29 March 2026

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Severity Appeal Succeeds as Material Containing Unproven Charges “Infected” Sentencing The appeal court ordered that the defendant be resentenced as the prosecution tendered material regarding past allegations that had not been proven. Click here to read the article The ...

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed

Sex Workers Mobilise to Ensure the Murder of Yuko Isn’t Downplayed and Dismissed
Sex workers are descending upon Melbourne’s Magistrates Court at 8.45 am on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, to call for justice for Yuko, a 62-year-old Asian migrant sex worker, who was raped and murdered in horrible circumstances, as she was legally working in a Footscray brothel. And those rallying before the court are calling for the case to go to trial, so ...

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque

Ignoring Local Muslim Concerns: Mukhlis Mah on the Heckling of the PM at Lakemba Mosque
Despite it being announced the night prior that they would be in attendance, when prime minister Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Tony Burke turned up at Lakemba Mosque during the end of Ramadan Eid celebration last Friday, 20 March 2026, a significant number of worshippers decried their attendance at the event, claiming their political ...

Australia Bans Entry to Iranian Visa Holders Who Are Fleeing the Illegal War 

Australia Bans Entry to Iranian Visa Holders Who Are Fleeing the Illegal War 
The US and Israel began their war of aggression on Iran on 28 February 2026, based on the pretext of saving the Iranian people from the tyranny of their government. Australia was the first nation to extol the virtues of this mission, yet then it promptly passed laws allowing it to impose a ban on 7,000-odd Iranians with valid visas from entering this ...

NSW Government Attempts “Stealth Attack” to “Hollow Out” Aboriginal Land Rights

NSW Government Attempts “Stealth Attack” to “Hollow Out” Aboriginal Land Rights
The New South Wales government has put its attempt to silently pass legislation which would have eroded land rights on hold after being called out by the Aboriginal Land Council. The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council confirmed on 20 March 2026, that Aboriginal land rights are under “an attack by stealth” from the NSW Minns government, as it ...

“A Reactionary, Pro-Big Business, Racist Party”: Victorian Socialists Call Out Hanson’s One Nation

“A Reactionary, Pro-Big Business, Racist Party”: Victorian Socialists Call Out Hanson’s One Nation
On Saturday, 21 March 2026, members of Victorian Socialists went out to speak with communities across four locations in Naarm-Melbourne. And the discussions they engaged in with local community members revolved around why there is a growing need for a coordinated pushback against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party’s divisive politicking. The reason that ...

ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Powers to Be Made Permanent

ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Powers to Be Made Permanent
Legislation set to make ASIO’s “compulsory questioning powers” permanent is before the Senate, after passing the lower house in mid-February 2026. And that it is Labor championing this reform, which will further broaden the scope of the nation’s chief spying agency’s ability to question non-suspects for up to 24 hours, reveals just how far to the right ...