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  1. Great to see resistance to Minnsolini's fascism succeed. 'Police have withdrawn their first charges against a protester from Sydney’s anti-Isaac Herzog rally just hours after confirming any charges laid under a now-defunct law would be dropped.' theguardian.com/australia-news #NSWPol #auspol #Palestine #IsraelFascism

  2. Presentation by lawyer Nick Hanna - 'Fresh from his major victory in the NSW Court of Appeal striking down the post-Bondi anti-protest laws, he delivers a hard-hitting analysis of the current assault on free speech and civil liberties in Australia.' boganintel.com/p/the-assault-o #auspol #FreePalestine #BDS #NSWPol #IsraelFascism #Gaza

  3. Sharath from Building Beautifully has put up a video about arguably Australia's biggest urban planning success story of the past 40 years.

    That's the emergence of Parramatta as one of Australia's great cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifGwIJo7OWo

    And with good reason. There's a lot that Parra has done right.

    Instead of just building apartments or office towers, it's built both.

    It's built enough new apartments close to public transport to keep house prices level, even as demand has grown.

    It has multiple train lines, ferries, and dedicated busways, has added light rail, and is adding a metro.

    It has the best public square in the whole Greater Sydney metro area in Parramatta Square.

    It has a pedestrianised main street with many restaurants.

    And it's cemented itself as the second CBD (central business district) for the Sydney metro area, and the main CBD for Western Sydney.

    If you have any interest in urbanism and cities, it's worth visiting on a weekday just to see what it looks like when urban planning works.

    #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #city #cities #Parramatta #NSW #Australia #planning #walking #walkability #transitorienteddevelopment #train #trains #transport #building #architecture #design #government #sydney #policy #politics #auspol #nswpol

  4. Big win for democracy! NSW’s top court just struck down those rushed post Bondi terror attack protest laws as unconstitutional. Chief Justice Bell ruled they impermissibly burdened free speech rights. Police can’t blanket ban rallies anymore. 👏

    #AusPol #ProtestRights #nsw #nswpol

    sbs.com.au/news/article/court-

  5. #NewSouthWales’ highest court has struck down an #AntiProtestLaw brought in after the #BondiBeach attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year.

    The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the #BlakCaucus, the #PalestineActionGroup and #JewsAgainstTheOccupation ’48 – filed a #constitutional #challenge in early January against the legislation.

    About time! #auspol #NSWpol #UnConstitutional

  6. #NewSouthWales’ highest court has struck down an #AntiProtestLaw brought in after the #BondiBeach attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year.

    The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the #BlakCaucus, the #PalestineActionGroup and #JewsAgainstTheOccupation ’48 – filed a #constitutional #challenge in early January against the legislation.

    About time! #auspol #NSWpol #UnConstitutional

  7. #NewSouthWales’ highest court has struck down an #AntiProtestLaw brought in after the #BondiBeach attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year.

    The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the #BlakCaucus, the #PalestineActionGroup and #JewsAgainstTheOccupation ’48 – filed a #constitutional #challenge in early January against the legislation.

    About time! #auspol #NSWpol #UnConstitutional

  8. #NewSouthWales’ highest court has struck down an #AntiProtestLaw brought in after the #BondiBeach attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year.

    The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the #BlakCaucus, the #PalestineActionGroup and #JewsAgainstTheOccupation ’48 – filed a #constitutional #challenge in early January against the legislation.

    About time! #auspol #NSWpol #UnConstitutional

  9. #NewSouthWales’ highest court has struck down an #AntiProtestLaw brought in after the #BondiBeach attack which gave police the power to restrict marches, including at the anti-Herzog rally earlier this year.

    The court of appeal handed down its findings on Thursday after three activist groups – the #BlakCaucus, the #PalestineActionGroup and #JewsAgainstTheOccupation ’48 – filed a #constitutional #challenge in early January against the legislation.

    About time! #auspol #NSWpol #UnConstitutional

  10. Labor getting pilloried by the courts these days. Two states, in two days found to be enacting unconstitutional laws. #AusPol #NSWPol #VicPol

    It's almost like the #ALP aren't fit to govern.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/chi

  11. UNITED WORKERS UNION ELECTION

    Are you sick of being ignored? We're here to listen. This Union election is a chance for your vote to make a real difference. Members First has a bold, new vision for one of Australia's largest blue collar Union's that could change not only your workplace but the whole country. It's time to put Members First. #unitedworkersunion #uwu #uwuelection2026 #ausunions #auspol #springst #saparli #qldpol #nswpol https://www.instagram.com/p/DUbrS-uj_xi/

    moraleconomy.au/2026/04/11/uni

  12. So, apparently a 21 year old man in Bathurst has been charged with various offences after police found numerous books detailing how to make pipe bombs, the materials for making pipe bombs, some pipe bombs, and over 50 stolen snakes in his home.

    None of the offences are terrorist offences.

    Interesting. 🤔

    #Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #AusPol #AustraliaHasANaziProblem

  13. From the OnePath Network Facebook group (link at end of post):

    "NSW Premier Cancels Annual Iftar Following Deteriorating Relationship with the Muslim Community

    NSW Premier Chris Minns has cancelled the state government’s annual Iftar dinner for the second time in three years, citing “consultation with Muslim community leaders,” amid escalating tensions between the Minns government and sections of the Muslim community. Several leaders say the cancellation reflects a deeper breakdown in trust. Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamel Kheir described the move as “heartbreaking,” adding that under the current climate “no Islamic leaders would have attended anyway.” Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun went further, accusing the Premier of having a “fetish” for attacking Muslims. The cancellation of what has traditionally been a symbolic gesture of inclusion during Ramadan has been interpreted by critics as a sign that relations have deteriorated beyond ceremonial repair.

    The strained relationship has been building for months, fuelled by the government’s handling of protests in Sydney, the fallout from Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia, and the Premier’s refusal to apologise after police forcibly removed Muslim men praying outside Town Hall during a peaceful protest. Community advocates also point to newly introduced hate speech laws, which they argue disproportionately impact Muslim and pro-Palestine voices under the guise of maintaining public order. While the Minns government maintains its approach is focused on safety and social cohesion, critics say the pattern of rhetoric and policy decisions has created an atmosphere of alienation. As Ramadan unfolds without the state’s official Iftar gathering, many see the cancellation not as a logistical decision, but as a symbol of a relationship that has become increasingly fractured."

    (OnePath Network Facebook:
    facebook.com/share/p/1B3gYW2Ta)

    #NSW #NSWPol #Muslim #Ramadan #Iftar #Islamaphobia #ChrisMinns

  14. The people of Broken Hill, especially Indigenous people, are poisoned while #Minnsolini dithers and focuses instead on his favourite YT group. He really doesn't like people of colour. Vulnerable humans are yet again sacrificed on avaricious corporate altars with assistance of their political collaborators in the ALP Pty. Ltd. so rich white people can profit from the evils they inflict on others' lives. archive.md/GNpyB #NSWPol #auspol #NSWFascism #IndigenousX

  15. Worth noting the bankrupt property developers behind the Carlingford buildings, Dyldam, are different to the bankrupt property developers being investigated by ICAC for trying to bribe Parramatta city councillors:

    https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01KG1M5SJWMNC6190XKZ3AJ8EB

    These developers, in turn, are different to Aland, which built the infamous Mascot Towers building in Sydney that was evacuated after cracking: https://www.smh.com.au/property/news/mascot-towers-owners-settle-with-developer-as-founder-buys-20-million-vaucluse-home-20220711-p5b0s6.html

    They're also different to the developers of the infamous Opal Towers in Olympic Park, which also had cracks. That was done by a firm called ICON: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-04/opal-tower-builder-launches-new-30m-crossclaim/11765280

    They're also.different to Mehris, a property developer that put up a building in Auburn that the then-Building Commissioner called the worst he'd ever seen, and another in Parramatta that needed rectification: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/developer-forced-to-fix-serious-defects-in-two-parramatta-apartment-towers-20210630-p585km.html

    But Dyldam is affiliated with another development company called Ellerson, that's responsible for a string of dodgy apartment buildings:

    "Former Dyldam bosses Fayad Fayad, Remon Fayad, and their father Sam Fayad are behind apartment blocks in Rosebery, Parramatta and Baulkham Hills, all of which have been slapped with sanctions from the NSW Building Commissioner.

    "An ABC investigation has revealed the Fayads' property management company, Ellerson Property, has led the development and sale of dozens of new apartments across Sydney, despite the collapse of their family company Dyldam and looming bankruptcy proceedings.

    "One unit block, The Laneways Rosebery in Sydney's inner south, is facing two rectification orders issued by Building Commissioner David Chandler, detailing serious defects which have prevented unit owners from moving in for more than two years.
    ...
    "Ellerson Property's website promotes Observatory Place in Parramatta as an "elegant 24-storey building" still under construction.

    "Despite developers claiming on social media the building would be finished in early 2022, the units which were being sold off-the-plan are now off the market as the NSW Department of Fair Trading investigates defective building work.
    ...
    "Another development belonging to the family's now-defunct business Dyldam was sanctioned two years ago for posing a "hazard to human to life".

    "In October 2021, government inspectors found waterproofing issues and an awning at risk of collapsing at Modena, a 15-storey apartment block in Baulkham Hills in north-west Sydney.

    "The Dyldam subsidiary company, Hills Shoppingtown Pty Ltd, that owned the block, was placed into receivership in 2021 along with 22 Dyldam subsidiaries, leaving receivers McGrathNicol to fulfil a government order to fix the building."
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/apartments-linked-to-fayad-property-companies-sanctioned/102549750

    #auspol #nswpol #planning #UrbanPlanning #cities #apartment #apartments #business #property #capitalism #nsw #australia

  16. Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

    #NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

  17. Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

    #NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

  18. Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

    #NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

  19. Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

    #NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

  20. Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

    #NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

  21. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  22. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  23. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  24. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  25. CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January

    @futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.

    In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.

    This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.

    #InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent

  26. Senior police have taken less than a day to deploy anti-protest powers that were rushed into law after the Bondi Beach terror attack.

    NSW Police late on Christmas Eve moved to ban protest rallies from key metropolitan areas in Sydney after legislation was passed earlier the same morning to allow the action following declared terrorist incidents.

    Meanwhile, Indigenous groups have raised concerns an extension of the police anti-protest designation could render "invasion day" protests on January 26 unlawful.

    Mr Minns said the assemblies could take place, although he drew a distinction between static rallies and marches through the city.

    #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #AbolishAustraliaDay #InvasionDay

    sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indige

  27. New South Wales prisoners could face some of the harshest penalties in the country for trivial infractions such as “looking untidy” or “eating food in a cell”, as the government flouts advice and attempts to lower the burden of proof for inmate misconduct.

    If adopted, the [new] legislation would mean offences committed by inmates while inside prison only need to be proved to the civil standard of the “balance of probabilities”, rather than the current criminal threshold of “beyond reasonable doubt”.

    The penalties under the lower standard of proof would remain the same as before for all offences, and can range from a caution to withdrawal of privileges for up to 56 days.

    [A] report... released by the ombudsman in August 2024, examined more than 56,000 offences from 2018, finding that one in three charges laid against inmates during disciplinary proceedings were incorrect.

    #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #prisons #NSWPrisons #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons

    theguardian.com/australia-news

  28. #Police officer charged with #assault after #HannahThomas injured at pro-Palestine protest in #Sydney.

    Senior constable charged with assault occasioning actual #bodilyharm due to appear in court in mid-November.

    Thomas’s lawyers will allege that #NSW police pursued a #malicious #prosecution & also claim Thomas was the victim of #abuse of process & #malfeasance in office.

    The DPP has dropped charges against 3 other protesters – Holly Zhang, Zack Schofield & Shane Reside. #auspol #NSWpol

  29. Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

    “Offenders found guilty in the Land and Environment Court can be fined up to $1.1 million and receive a criminal record.
    Local councils can also issue on-the-spot fines of up to $3000.”

    [Paywall] smh.com.au/national/nsw/fight-

    Penalties should be subject of increases. $1.1 million is loose change for any property owners that can afford to live and benefit from the act of vandalism.
    #AusPol #NSWPol #Sydney #EnvironmentalManagement #ParkManagement #Aboricide

  30. #Victorian Premier #DanielAndrews has announced another 12 Priority Primary Care Centres will open around the state by February.

    Ten of the centres - which provide bulk-billed #healthcare - are already open.

    Andrews said the centres would take financial stress off families finding it "nearly impossible" to access free health services
    #IStandWithDan #freehealthcare #medicare #nswpol

    9news.com.au/national/dan-andr

  31. An advertisement I designed for the Nature Conservation Council to protect the habitat of endangered species, is appearing in the January 2023 edition of The Tawny Frogmouth magazine.

    Find out more about the project: medium.com/@jarrennylund/dont-

    Sign the open letter: nature.org.au/forests

    #auspol #nswpol #nswvotes #nature #forests #greaterglider #design #graphicdesign #advertisement