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Liberal power brokers left phones in car to avoid tracing before discussing corruption probe, Icac hears
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/icac-nsw-young-liberal-phones-corruption-probeShhh! Nothing to see here!
Nothing suspicious about everyone agreeing to ditch their phones before attending a secret meeting about taking illegal political donations from conservative and religious donors.
Nothing suspicious about coaching witnesses before a trial.
Nothing suspicious about a conspiracy to take over a political party and backstab a Premier in an effort to assert control of a State Government.
This is fine, just the usual internal jostling, for the Liberal Party of New South Wales.
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Liberal power brokers left phones in car to avoid tracing before discussing corruption probe, Icac hears
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/icac-nsw-young-liberal-phones-corruption-probeShhh! Nothing to see here!
Nothing suspicious about everyone agreeing to ditch their phones before attending a secret meeting about taking illegal political donations from conservative and religious donors.
Nothing suspicious about coaching witnesses before a trial.
Nothing suspicious about a conspiracy to take over a political party and backstab a Premier in an effort to assert control of a State Government.
This is fine, just the usual internal jostling, for the Liberal Party of New South Wales.
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I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…
“The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.
However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”
How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
(Source: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-to-be-given-powers-to-access-and-download-phone-content-on-the-beat/ )#Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState
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I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…
“The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.
However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”
How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
(Source: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-to-be-given-powers-to-access-and-download-phone-content-on-the-beat/ )#Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState
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Zionism corrupts. Any reasonable person would agree that Israel is Zionist, not Jewish.
“Under the law, the committee was required to act independently of the minister …”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-questions-ministers
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Zionism corrupts. Any reasonable person would agree that Israel is Zionist, not Jewish.
“Under the law, the committee was required to act independently of the minister …”
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-supreme-court-questions-ministers
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@johnquiggin Let's imagine for a moment this happened on the other side of politics.
Imagine one of the unions established a trades training school that received taxpayer money through the federal government.
And let's suppose the CEO of this trades training school allegedly channelled money to a particular faction of the Labor Party through donations.
Let alone all the other accusations around colourful property developers and the premier's brothers and the attempts to roll the police minister who's from a rival faction or remove the Building Commissioner.
You wouldn't hear the end of it! Not from Sky, or the Murdoch tabloids, or Seven, or The Australian, or the Coalition, or One Nation!
It really goes to the heart of whether public education money should go to a private school organisation that's so deeply involved in Liberal Party politics.
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@johnquiggin Let's imagine for a moment this happened on the other side of politics.
Imagine one of the unions established a trades training school that received taxpayer money through the federal government.
And let's suppose the CEO of this trades training school allegedly channelled money to a particular faction of the Labor Party through donations.
Let alone all the other accusations around colourful property developers and the premier's brothers and the attempts to roll the police minister who's from a rival faction or remove the Building Commissioner.
You wouldn't hear the end of it! Not from Sky, or the Murdoch tabloids, or Seven, or The Australian, or the Coalition, or One Nation!
It really goes to the heart of whether public education money should go to a private school organisation that's so deeply involved in Liberal Party politics.
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Before we even got to the scandal stage, how could leaders of NSW Catholic Church have thought it appropriate that the head of Catholic Schools NSW should be a senior figure on the Liberal Party? McInerney has resigned but his patron Archbishop Fisher should go too. #nswpol
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Before we even got to the scandal stage, how could leaders of NSW Catholic Church have thought it appropriate that the head of Catholic Schools NSW should be a senior figure on the Liberal Party? McInerney has resigned but his patron Archbishop Fisher should go too. #nswpol
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@news Well this certainly looks concerning...
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@news Well this certainly looks concerning...
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Remember, Melbourne is "the crime capital of Australia" 😬
Oh, look, more "legal in NSW" straight pull magazine shotguns:
Military-grade grenades and guns along with drugs worth millions seized from alleged Sydney safe house
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TIL about Parliamentary powers to Order Documents be produced (OPD) from the govt. The NSW’s Premier doesn’t like it, apparently. There’s a lot he doesn’t like, protests for instance, or transparency, and even free speach. He’s a peculiar one this one. He’d fit in well as a Liberal Premier.
#WestminsterSystem #NSWPol #NSWLabor #ChrisMinns #ODP #ChecksAndBalances #NSWLegislativeCouncil
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TIL about Parliamentary powers to Order Documents be produced (OPD) from the govt. The NSW’s Premier doesn’t like it, apparently. There’s a lot he doesn’t like, protests for instance, or transparency, and even free speach. He’s a peculiar one this one. He’d fit in well as a Liberal Premier.
#WestminsterSystem #NSWPol #NSWLabor #ChrisMinns #ODP #ChecksAndBalances #NSWLegislativeCouncil
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@psychopoesie
Nothing new about the #NSWLabor govt #Greenwashing -
“… some Labor members are concerned that the rank and file will not be afforded the opportunity to debate the protest laws after the matter was scheduled second last on the agenda …”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/03/nsw-labor-party-conference-anti-protest-laws-aukus-gambling-palestine-ntwnfb
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A striking feature of this story is that the top leadership of Catholic Schools NSW appears to consist entirely of senior figures in the Liberal right, or their family members. Given that Catholic school get huge amounts of public money, this seems like a problem #nswpol
