Right now, there are laws before New South Wales parliament that facilitate the sharing of all NSW driver licence and identify card photos to a federal database containing ID photos from all Australian jurisdictions known as the National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution, or NDLFRS, that has the capability to match a single image against all ...
On Thursday, the National Union of Students is organising the “Students Say No to Hanson” walkout, which will involve tertiary students and secondary school students leaving their classrooms and lecture halls to gather in opposition to the rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party and its racist and divisive political agenda that it’s attempting to ...
A woman has been refused bail after being charged with a series of alleged traffic and criminal offences following an incident in Sydney’s Lower North Shore that police say began with a vehicle crashing into a bus stop before escalating into assaults, property damage and resisting arrest.
The incident
According to NSW Police, at about 12.20pm on ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Police Claim Success in Warrantless Sydney-to-Newcastle Rail Blitz
Police charged 24 people with a total of 27 offences after a three-day blitz across the rail network during which 263 people were scanned without warrant or reasonable suspicion.
Click here to read the ...
The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team announced on 5 August 2026 that it is investigating an arson and graffiti attack that targeted the Lovitt Technologies facility located on Wurendjeri land in the northeastern Melbourne suburb of Greensborough in July 2025, as “an act of terrorism, potentially orchestrated by far-left extremists with anarchist ...
From Thursday, 5 August 2026, all New South Wales police officers have been required to turn on their body-worn video (BWV) cameras when working in an “operational capacity”, including when exercising their law enforcement powers, using force, attending serious crimes and conducting police pursuits. And the decision to progress this long-sought reform ...
Social justice advocates breathed a sigh of relief last week, when the New South Wales government announced it is establishing an alternative to NSW police as first responders to mental health crisis callouts. This will involve an emergency line connecting to “specialist clinical support”, and it aims to curb the ongoing issue that involves police ...
On an average night over 2024-25, more than 70 percent of First Nations youths held in Australian child prisons were on remand, which meant that either a decision on their guilt had not yet been made or they were yet to be sentenced in relation to their finding of guilt, while as for the average number of days Indigenous kids were spending on remand, ...
The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has of late been the subject of scandal and a controversial NSW parliamentary inquiry, which recommended that the state government give consideration to establishing a parliamentary committee mandated to oversight the public official who decides which serious criminal prosecutions are ...
Police have arrested and charged 24 people with a total of 27 criminal offences after a three-day operation targeting crime across the Sydney to Newcastle rail corridor, in a reminder that being stopped for something as minor as an unpaid train fare can quickly escalate into a string of criminal charges.
What Happened During Operation Disrupt
Operation ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Inquiry Recommends that Watchdog Be Established to Oversee the DPP
A recent scandal involving the NSW Director of Public Prosecution has triggered calls to establish an independent monitor with power to facilitate accountability.
Click here to read the article
NSW ...
A legal suit was lodged with the High Court of Australia last week, challenging the Queensland Crisafulli government’s recently applied prohibition against the uttering or displaying of specific pro-Palestinian political protest slogans in public, with the plaintiffs’ claim being that these laws impinge on the implied right to freedom of political ...
Right now, there are laws before New South Wales parliament that facilitate the sharing of all NSW driver licence and identify card photos to a federal database containing ID photos from all Australian jurisdictions known as the National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution, or NDLFRS, that has the capability to match a single image against all ...
On Thursday, the National Union of Students is organising the “Students Say No to Hanson” walkout, which will involve tertiary students and secondary school students leaving their classrooms and lecture halls to gather in opposition to the rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party and its racist and divisive political agenda that it’s attempting to ...
A woman has been refused bail after being charged with a series of alleged traffic and criminal offences following an incident in Sydney’s Lower North Shore that police say began with a vehicle crashing into a bus stop before escalating into assaults, property damage and resisting arrest.
The incident
According to NSW Police, at about 12.20pm on ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Police Claim Success in Warrantless Sydney-to-Newcastle Rail Blitz
Police charged 24 people with a total of 27 offences after a three-day blitz across the rail network during which 263 people were scanned without warrant or reasonable suspicion.
Click here to read the ...
The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team announced on 5 August 2026 that it is investigating an arson and graffiti attack that targeted the Lovitt Technologies facility located on Wurendjeri land in the northeastern Melbourne suburb of Greensborough in July 2025, as “an act of terrorism, potentially orchestrated by far-left extremists with anarchist ...
From Thursday, 5 August 2026, all New South Wales police officers have been required to turn on their body-worn video (BWV) cameras when working in an “operational capacity”, including when exercising their law enforcement powers, using force, attending serious crimes and conducting police pursuits. And the decision to progress this long-sought reform ...
Social justice advocates breathed a sigh of relief last week, when the New South Wales government announced it is establishing an alternative to NSW police as first responders to mental health crisis callouts. This will involve an emergency line connecting to “specialist clinical support”, and it aims to curb the ongoing issue that involves police ...
On an average night over 2024-25, more than 70 percent of First Nations youths held in Australian child prisons were on remand, which meant that either a decision on their guilt had not yet been made or they were yet to be sentenced in relation to their finding of guilt, while as for the average number of days Indigenous kids were spending on remand, ...
The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has of late been the subject of scandal and a controversial NSW parliamentary inquiry, which recommended that the state government give consideration to establishing a parliamentary committee mandated to oversight the public official who decides which serious criminal prosecutions are ...
Police have arrested and charged 24 people with a total of 27 criminal offences after a three-day operation targeting crime across the Sydney to Newcastle rail corridor, in a reminder that being stopped for something as minor as an unpaid train fare can quickly escalate into a string of criminal charges.
What Happened During Operation Disrupt
Operation ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
NSW Inquiry Recommends that Watchdog Be Established to Oversee the DPP
A recent scandal involving the NSW Director of Public Prosecution has triggered calls to establish an independent monitor with power to facilitate accountability.
Click here to read the article
NSW ...
A legal suit was lodged with the High Court of Australia last week, challenging the Queensland Crisafulli government’s recently applied prohibition against the uttering or displaying of specific pro-Palestinian political protest slogans in public, with the plaintiffs’ claim being that these laws impinge on the implied right to freedom of political ...
