by Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim In a move that has long been demanded by victim advocacy groups and is based upon a recommendation contained in a New South Wales Sentencing Council report of July 2025, the state government has introduced legislation that would prohibit the use of ‘good character’ as a factor which has… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The 2025/26 summer holidays were completely different to any other in recent memory, as they commenced with the horror of the 14 December Bondi Beach massacre, and in the wake of this act of terrorism, both the federal and NSW parliaments reconvened to pass a swag of laws that… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales police commissioner imposed a firearms prohibition order (FPO) upon Grafton man Samuel Lynch on 2 July 2020. An FPO restricts its subject from owning firearms or ammunition. But on being arrested on 26 July 2021, Lynch was found to have amassed multiple guns, guns parts… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Lata Samate and Alex Sasulu left the Campsie Hotel at around 4.30 am on 3 September 2023 on foot, after Sasulu had been barred entry into the establishment for being too intoxicated. The pair then came across a nearby service station at 4.45 am, which happened to have the… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Nine hundred cartons of wine, which contained 123 kilograms of pure cocaine dissolved in an aqueous ethanol solution within 42 dozen of the bottles, arrived in Australia on a ship sailing from South America on 14 September 2012. The Australian federal police seized the consignment and extracted the cocaine… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A lot more is known about ISIS-inspired father and son killers, Sajid and Naveed Akram, than was known in the days immediately after the mass shooting they perpetrated on Gadigal land at Bondi Beach on 14 December 2025. Sajid was shot dead by police at the scene, while Naveed,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The shop assistant greeted Shanta Luchetti as he entered a Liquorland store in a shopping centre on 11 November 2023. The assistant was standing beside the cash register, and Luchetti then walked to a section of the store, where he picked up a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label,… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The New South Wales government passed its second version of its ‘places of worship’ move on power for the NSW police toolkit in late November 2025, after the initial version was struck down by the Supreme Court in October 2025 on the basis it unjustifiably infringed the right of… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim A former Australian soldier met with a sex worker on 9 August 2023, for the third time in roughly a month. But unlike the first two occasions on which the pair met, when the man paid the woman for her services, he handed her a receipt which fraudulently suggested… Read more »
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Western Australian police officers executed a search warrant on 21 August 2019, on the number 8 storage unit at Billabong Self Storage facility located on Cutler Road in the Perth suburb of Jandakot. The search was carried out in front of Darcey Doyle, who was one of two people… Read more »