The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14- to 17-year-olds for bail refusal if they’ve been charged with a serious motor theft or break and enter crimes, and they’re on conditional release for one of these specific crimes, because it ...
Home affairs minister Tony Burke unveiled federal Labor’s new policy to cut down on migrant numbers in this country, during a 17 September 2026 address to the National Press Club, and the part that has caused most concern is the decision to create a new force of migrant officers to hunt down and detain up to 77,000 visa overstayers, to stick in ...
The biannual Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition is about to take place once again. And this year, the nation’s largest weapons festival of its kind, will be taking place on Noongar land at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre over 6 to 8 of October 2026, and the WA Anti-War Collective is leading a coalition of antiwar groups set to ...
New South Wales has passed a law establishing a medicinal cannabis drug driving defence, which means that “registered drivers” who are prescribed cannabis medicine and test positive for THC, the psychoactive component of the drug, in their system when driving, will be able to defend themselves against license disqualification and fining, as long as the ...
The Red Lines Package of legislation was introduced into federal parliament by a crossbench coalition last week. It comprises of four separate draft bills combined into an omnibus piece of legislation that, if passed, would broadly ensure Australia stops funding, arming or investing in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide, anywhere in the world, ...
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney’s Taylor Square on Sunday afternoon to rally against New South Wales police having twice raided gay bars with sniffer dogs, on Oxford Street and its surrounds, once in Pride month and again only a fortnight ago, which marks a shift in terms of the agency having long been attempting to repair its ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties warns that laws spruiked as necessary to combat organised crime could be used to further suppress political dissent.
Click here to read the ...
The premier has been referred over claims he’s been pressuring police to suppress “lawful public assemblies” when he doesn’t agree with what’s being voiced.
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson has referred NSW premier Chris Minns to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, as she considers the NSW Labor leader has “too much influence over police ...
Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett has suggested that the Australia public ought to have a discussion about drug use and organised crime, as she considers that people who use drugs are complicit in the spike in gang-related violence in major cities, when rather, as any harm reduction expert will counter, it’s the drug war that’s to ...
New South Wales police has again raided LGBTIQA+ venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street, with sniffer dogs in tow.
This is the second set of raids on the fabled queer district, with the first taking place in June’s Pride month. And as a pattern starts forming, comparisons to 1970s Sydney have been raised, which was a time when aggressive ...
Renowned journalist Mary Kostakidis reins victorious, following an attempt by the local Israel lobby to sully her reputation in the courts, via a baseless complaint about a post the former SBS World News presenter made on social media that was somehow meant to construe that she was an antisemite, while Mary was actually on a roll of condemning Israel ...
New South Wales police have charged a 22-year-old man with several crimes, including receiving stolen goods from outside of NSW, following a police pursuit on Gomeroi land, which commenced when officers attempted to stop a Toyota utility in the NSW regional town of Boomi. The suspect then allegedly led officers on a chase, prior to dumping the ute in ...
The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14- to 17-year-olds for bail refusal if they’ve been charged with a serious motor theft or break and enter crimes, and they’re on conditional release for one of these specific crimes, because it ...
Home affairs minister Tony Burke unveiled federal Labor’s new policy to cut down on migrant numbers in this country, during a 17 September 2026 address to the National Press Club, and the part that has caused most concern is the decision to create a new force of migrant officers to hunt down and detain up to 77,000 visa overstayers, to stick in ...
The biannual Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition is about to take place once again. And this year, the nation’s largest weapons festival of its kind, will be taking place on Noongar land at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre over 6 to 8 of October 2026, and the WA Anti-War Collective is leading a coalition of antiwar groups set to ...
New South Wales has passed a law establishing a medicinal cannabis drug driving defence, which means that “registered drivers” who are prescribed cannabis medicine and test positive for THC, the psychoactive component of the drug, in their system when driving, will be able to defend themselves against license disqualification and fining, as long as the ...
The Red Lines Package of legislation was introduced into federal parliament by a crossbench coalition last week. It comprises of four separate draft bills combined into an omnibus piece of legislation that, if passed, would broadly ensure Australia stops funding, arming or investing in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide, anywhere in the world, ...
Hundreds of protesters gathered on Gadigal land at Sydney’s Taylor Square on Sunday afternoon to rally against New South Wales police having twice raided gay bars with sniffer dogs, on Oxford Street and its surrounds, once in Pride month and again only a fortnight ago, which marks a shift in terms of the agency having long been attempting to repair its ...
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles:
New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties warns that laws spruiked as necessary to combat organised crime could be used to further suppress political dissent.
Click here to read the ...
The premier has been referred over claims he’s been pressuring police to suppress “lawful public assemblies” when he doesn’t agree with what’s being voiced.
New South Wales Greens MLC Sue Higginson has referred NSW premier Chris Minns to the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, as she considers the NSW Labor leader has “too much influence over police ...
Australian federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett has suggested that the Australia public ought to have a discussion about drug use and organised crime, as she considers that people who use drugs are complicit in the spike in gang-related violence in major cities, when rather, as any harm reduction expert will counter, it’s the drug war that’s to ...
New South Wales police has again raided LGBTIQA+ venues on Gadigal land around Sydney’s Oxford Street, with sniffer dogs in tow.
This is the second set of raids on the fabled queer district, with the first taking place in June’s Pride month. And as a pattern starts forming, comparisons to 1970s Sydney have been raised, which was a time when aggressive ...
Renowned journalist Mary Kostakidis reins victorious, following an attempt by the local Israel lobby to sully her reputation in the courts, via a baseless complaint about a post the former SBS World News presenter made on social media that was somehow meant to construe that she was an antisemite, while Mary was actually on a roll of condemning Israel ...
New South Wales police have charged a 22-year-old man with several crimes, including receiving stolen goods from outside of NSW, following a police pursuit on Gomeroi land, which commenced when officers attempted to stop a Toyota utility in the NSW regional town of Boomi. The suspect then allegedly led officers on a chase, prior to dumping the ute in ...
