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NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful

NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful

Of the 82,471 strip searches NSW police performed over the ten years to 2023, only 11,136, or 13.5 percent turned up an illicit substance. Further, 6,716 of these searches followed a drug dog indication, yet only 2,713 of them, or 40 percent, turned up any drugs, and most were a personal amount of an illegal substance. Released on Monday, 28 July 2025 ...
Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It

Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It

Anthony Albanese finally called out Israel on its close to 22-month-long mass atrocity crimewave in the Gaza Strip. “Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered” the Australian PM told Insiders host David Speers on Sunday 27 July 2025, “which was a decision that Israel made in March.” Although he did then clarify that ...
Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters

Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters

The Australian PM and foreign minister have begun taking a harder line on Israel. Anthony Albanese stated on Sunday that the nation is in breach of international law due to its withholding of food from Palestinians in Gaza, while Penny Wong reiterated it being “not consistent with international law”, yet neither have touched on the two Australian ...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 July 2025

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Interviews Excluded as Officers Failed to Issue Formal Caution The appeal court excluded evidence of two police interviews as the detectives failed to formally caution the suspect. Click here to read the article With So Much Local US Military Presence, Can Australia ...
Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia

Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia

There has been considerable media reporting in recent times regarding the systemic problems in Australian childcare centres – from rampant neglect, physical and sexual abuse of children, to a lack of training, to insufficient staffing and inadequate staff training, and inadequate vetting of prospective staff. In an attempt to address these and other ...
Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It

Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It

Federal Labor has expressed regrets but no real action on the Gaza genocide that Israel has been perpetrating over the last 21 months, yet the moment that marked a step too far was when Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi produced a sign, during the Australian governor general’s opening speech for the 48th parliament, which read, “Gaza is starving. Words ...
Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights

Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights

Police asking civilians for the passwords to access their mobiles has become the norm, but in the vast majority of cases in NSW and in Queensland, officers need a warrant or a court order to require the code to access a person’s electronic device, and that’s exactly what Queensland police did have included on the warrant when they raided activist ...
Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis

Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis

The NSW Police Force conducted a review of the practice of sending its officers in to deal with people having mental health crisis in public, as the problem is it often results in police killing civilians. And the review ultimately recommended in April 2024 that a health-focused alternative be devised, and yet, officers again killed another civilian ...
“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt

“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt

The society-wide pressure not to speak out against the genocide Israel launched upon the Gaza Strip in October 2023 in Australia was instantaneous. This pressure required people not to raise the unbridled force Israel was pounding the people of Gaza with, it required that people not call for a ceasefire, and it required that everybody deem genocidal ...

NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful

NSW Police Use of Drug Dogs and Strip Searches Slammed as Ineffective and Unlawful
Of the 82,471 strip searches NSW police performed over the ten years to 2023, only 11,136, or 13.5 percent turned up an illicit substance. Further, 6,716 of these searches followed a drug dog indication, yet only 2,713 of them, or 40 percent, turned up any drugs, and most were a personal amount of an illegal substance. Released on Monday, 28 July 2025 ...

Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It

Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It
Anthony Albanese finally called out Israel on its close to 22-month-long mass atrocity crimewave in the Gaza Strip. “Quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered” the Australian PM told Insiders host David Speers on Sunday 27 July 2025, “which was a decision that Israel made in March.” Although he did then clarify that ...

Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters

Israel Has Illegally Abducted and Detained Two Australian Citizens in International Waters
The Australian PM and foreign minister have begun taking a harder line on Israel. Anthony Albanese stated on Sunday that the nation is in breach of international law due to its withholding of food from Palestinians in Gaza, while Penny Wong reiterated it being “not consistent with international law”, yet neither have touched on the two Australian ...

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 July 2025

Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 21 to 27 July 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Police Interviews Excluded as Officers Failed to Issue Formal Caution The appeal court excluded evidence of two police interviews as the detectives failed to formally caution the suspect. Click here to read the article With So Much Local US Military Presence, Can Australia ...

Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia

Federal Government Introduces Stricter Rules for Childcare Centres in Australia
There has been considerable media reporting in recent times regarding the systemic problems in Australian childcare centres – from rampant neglect, physical and sexual abuse of children, to a lack of training, to insufficient staffing and inadequate staff training, and inadequate vetting of prospective staff. In an attempt to address these and other ...

Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It

Labor Sanctions Faruqi for Raising Gaza Genocide, Not Israel for Its Commission of It
Federal Labor has expressed regrets but no real action on the Gaza genocide that Israel has been perpetrating over the last 21 months, yet the moment that marked a step too far was when Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi produced a sign, during the Australian governor general’s opening speech for the 48th parliament, which read, “Gaza is starving. Words ...

Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights

Guilty of Refusing to Disclose Password: Wage Peace’s Margaret Pestorius on Eroding Rights
Police asking civilians for the passwords to access their mobiles has become the norm, but in the vast majority of cases in NSW and in Queensland, officers need a warrant or a court order to require the code to access a person’s electronic device, and that’s exactly what Queensland police did have included on the warrant when they raided activist ...

Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis

Despite Calls for Reform, NSW Police Officers Are Still Killing Mentally Ill People in Crisis
The NSW Police Force conducted a review of the practice of sending its officers in to deal with people having mental health crisis in public, as the problem is it often results in police killing civilians. And the review ultimately recommended in April 2024 that a health-focused alternative be devised, and yet, officers again killed another civilian ...

“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt

“They Can’t Take Your Integrity”: Councillor Rhonda Garad on Falling Prey to the Antisemitism Witch Hunt
The society-wide pressure not to speak out against the genocide Israel launched upon the Gaza Strip in October 2023 in Australia was instantaneous. This pressure required people not to raise the unbridled force Israel was pounding the people of Gaza with, it required that people not call for a ceasefire, and it required that everybody deem genocidal ...