The New South Wales adult prisoner population has risen to its highest numbers ever seen, with 14,070 inmates in this state’s correctional facilities in March 2026. This is due to a particularly stark surge in those sent to prison over four months of last summer, which was driven by increased arrests being made by NSW police, and First Nations people ...
Recent years have seen multiple Australian jurisdictions pass laws that ultimately target First Nations children to ensure more end up in prison and remain there longer. This flies under the radar, as the term “youth justice reform” is colourblind. However, the UN has cottoned on to Australia’s racially charged, long-term and intensifying practice of ...
A 15-year-old boy from southwestern Sydney gained entry into a house located on Cabrogal land on Longfield Street in Cabramatta at around 6.15 pm on 6 May 2026, and he had no permission to do so. The teenager then grabbed a 16-year-old girl’s head from behind, and after what appears to have been a slight struggle, the boy fled the scene on foot.
The ...
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed to ABC Radio on the morning of 13 May 2026 that criminal charges brought under the unconstitutional protest ban law in relation to the 9 February rally against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog will be withdrawn pending review. That afternoon saw the first charges dropped and a ...
Four Australian women and nine children, known collectively as the “ISIS brides”, arrived back in Australia on 7 May 2026. Three of the women were promptly charged and remanded over domestic crimes that carry universal jurisdiction, which stands in stark contrast to the potentially hundreds of locals who’ve returned from fighting in a UN declared ...
A common quip that does the rounds of the internet of late, has been that Australian foreign minister Penny Wong is “deeply concerned” following yet another catastrophic event on the global stage, whilst as for PM Anthony Albanese, when he’s questioned about Washington’s actions, he reiterates that he’s already stated that he won’t be commenting on ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW
A man has been charged with driving with a high range concentration of alcohol and drug driving after allegedly driving dangerously and crashing into another car.
Click here to read the ...
Most of us understand the concept of Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother heads the Ingsoc government that runs Oceania, which is notable for the all-seeing-eye system it’s developed, in which citizens have no privacy. But most of us aren’t aware that this all-pervasive surveillance network is now being ...
Six Australian citizens sitting in boats in international waters close by the coast of Crete, a Greek island, were apprehended at semiautomatic gunpoint and taken hostage by Israeli soldiers on 30 April 2026. The Australians were then detained on a prison boat for two days, along with 180-odd other foreign nationals, who’d been kidnapped as well, and ...
Australian defence minister Richard Marles announced that the government will raise military spending to 3 percent of GDP by 2033, during a 16 April 2026 speech at the National Press Club, whilst health minister Mark Butler addressed the same venue on 22 April, spruiking heavy cuts to disabilities support, and taken together this reflects the agenda of ...
A coalition of 16 New South Wales legal and rights organisations is calling on NSW corrections minister Anoulack Chanthivong to urgently ensure that Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) actions the 34 recommendations the NSW Ombudsman advised it implement in respect to inmate discipline in August 2024, along with three recent supplementary guidance’s the ...
This year’s Sydney Mardi Gras parade was something of a travesty. The Mardi Gras board banned the pro-trans rights/antigenocide Pride in Protest contingent from marching at the last minute, while NSW police officers then brutalised marchers from other floats over waving Palestinian flags.
So, Pride in Protest is petitioning for and demanding an ...
The New South Wales adult prisoner population has risen to its highest numbers ever seen, with 14,070 inmates in this state’s correctional facilities in March 2026. This is due to a particularly stark surge in those sent to prison over four months of last summer, which was driven by increased arrests being made by NSW police, and First Nations people ...
Recent years have seen multiple Australian jurisdictions pass laws that ultimately target First Nations children to ensure more end up in prison and remain there longer. This flies under the radar, as the term “youth justice reform” is colourblind. However, the UN has cottoned on to Australia’s racially charged, long-term and intensifying practice of ...
A 15-year-old boy from southwestern Sydney gained entry into a house located on Cabrogal land on Longfield Street in Cabramatta at around 6.15 pm on 6 May 2026, and he had no permission to do so. The teenager then grabbed a 16-year-old girl’s head from behind, and after what appears to have been a slight struggle, the boy fled the scene on foot.
The ...
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed to ABC Radio on the morning of 13 May 2026 that criminal charges brought under the unconstitutional protest ban law in relation to the 9 February rally against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog will be withdrawn pending review. That afternoon saw the first charges dropped and a ...
Four Australian women and nine children, known collectively as the “ISIS brides”, arrived back in Australia on 7 May 2026. Three of the women were promptly charged and remanded over domestic crimes that carry universal jurisdiction, which stands in stark contrast to the potentially hundreds of locals who’ve returned from fighting in a UN declared ...
A common quip that does the rounds of the internet of late, has been that Australian foreign minister Penny Wong is “deeply concerned” following yet another catastrophic event on the global stage, whilst as for PM Anthony Albanese, when he’s questioned about Washington’s actions, he reiterates that he’s already stated that he won’t be commenting on ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
The Combined Offence of High Range Drink Driving and Drug Driving in NSW
A man has been charged with driving with a high range concentration of alcohol and drug driving after allegedly driving dangerously and crashing into another car.
Click here to read the ...
Most of us understand the concept of Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother heads the Ingsoc government that runs Oceania, which is notable for the all-seeing-eye system it’s developed, in which citizens have no privacy. But most of us aren’t aware that this all-pervasive surveillance network is now being ...
Six Australian citizens sitting in boats in international waters close by the coast of Crete, a Greek island, were apprehended at semiautomatic gunpoint and taken hostage by Israeli soldiers on 30 April 2026. The Australians were then detained on a prison boat for two days, along with 180-odd other foreign nationals, who’d been kidnapped as well, and ...
Australian defence minister Richard Marles announced that the government will raise military spending to 3 percent of GDP by 2033, during a 16 April 2026 speech at the National Press Club, whilst health minister Mark Butler addressed the same venue on 22 April, spruiking heavy cuts to disabilities support, and taken together this reflects the agenda of ...
A coalition of 16 New South Wales legal and rights organisations is calling on NSW corrections minister Anoulack Chanthivong to urgently ensure that Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) actions the 34 recommendations the NSW Ombudsman advised it implement in respect to inmate discipline in August 2024, along with three recent supplementary guidance’s the ...
This year’s Sydney Mardi Gras parade was something of a travesty. The Mardi Gras board banned the pro-trans rights/antigenocide Pride in Protest contingent from marching at the last minute, while NSW police officers then brutalised marchers from other floats over waving Palestinian flags.
So, Pride in Protest is petitioning for and demanding an ...
