In providing the address to open the 2026 law term, NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell reflected on how “the state of the profession, the courts, the rule of law and areas of common interest and concern” had progressed over 2025, and in doing so, he recalled the concerns he’d had in respect of the rule… Read more »
As of Wednesday, 21 January 2026, senior New South Wales police officers had issued public safety orders (PSO) to at least 12 neo-Nazis in the Greater Sydney area, ordering them to keep a wide berth from the city’s CBD and its surrounds on 26 January 2026, as their presence at a planned antiimmigration rally on… Read more »
NSW Greens MP for Newtown Jenny Leong introduced her Human Rights Bill 2025 on Thursday, 23 October, and the understanding is that this legislation is appearing before NSW parliament at a time when the constituency is experiencing “the burden of divisions” both “local and global”, and the establishment of rights for all citizens and residents,… Read more »
Emma Stanley became aware that her cousin Seth Harvey had stored firearms, firearms parts and ammunition in the back of a vehicle in her yard and in a manhole under her home in the north central NSW regional town of Dubbo on 18 March 2019. As it turned out, Stanley’s cousin was storing the guns… Read more »
During a 2006 speech he gave at the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, then NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery addressed the inception and benefits of a relatively new sentencing regime that had recently been established – that being guideline judgements. As he recalled, NSW was heading for a March 1999… Read more »
“The risk of being involved in a serious car accident increases significantly when the driver’s blood alcohol range substantially exceeds the basic legal limit,” outlines a 2023 NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research report on sentencing high range prescribed concentration of alcohol drivers. “In particular”, underscored the BOCSAR researchers David Saffron and Marilyn Chilvers,… Read more »
Seven teenagers were charged with offences ranging from car theft to police pursuit early on Monday, as NSW police attempted to stop three vehicles close to the NSW town of Woy Woy at 2.30 am, as these were suspected to be reportedly stolen from suburbs around the Central Coast. One vehicle, a BMW, rammed into a police… Read more »
Wiradjuri woman DN came to the notice of the NSW welfare officers in October 2009, which led to the imposition of a care order in relation to her two children, under the terms of section 61 of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW) (the Care Act). The New South Wales Children’s… Read more »
Over a period of a little over six years ending in January 2019, western Sydney woman Clarisse Totaan underreported or failed to report her earnings to the Department of Human Services (DHS), which led to her receiving parenting payments to a sum of just shy of $113,000. This social security fraud began after she had… Read more »
Recent years have seen our state subjected to a series of unprecedented extreme weather events, and this is being accompanied by an escalation in climate protests that are increasingly targeting the profits of the fossil fuel industry, as well as raising public awareness to the crisis. This was seen over the last week with Blockade… Read more »