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Paul Gregoire

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Freelance Writer/Journalist 2021 NSW Council of Civil Liberties Award Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism Articles: www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/bl…

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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 16h
WA police has sent out letters to a dozen antiwar activists nationwide, explaining that they've been banned from entering the Land Forces 2026 weapons expo site, via threat of three years imprisonment 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/wa-poli...
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WA Police Bans a Dozen Activists from Perth Weapons Expo
Western Australian police have sent letters to a dozen activists nationwide, warning that they face up to three years in prison if they enter the area around the 2026 Land Forces expo.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Drug dogs don't get run through pubs and clubs in Melbourne, New York or London, and that's why NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann is moving laws to end the warrantless use of drug dogs in public in Sydney 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-gre...
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NSW Greens Propose to End the Warrantless Use of Drug Dogs in Places Open to the Public
Sydney city is sick of being harassed by NSW police running drug dogs through bars and clubs, so NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann is introducing laws to end their use.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How long will Antisemitism Envoy Segal be permitted to insert the IHRA working definition on antisemitism into the heart of all levels of government and its institutions in Australia, so that criticism of Israel is blocked? 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/how-lon...
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How Long Will the Antisemitism Envoy Be Permitted to Reshape Australia in Israel’s Vision?
Unelected antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is continuing with her plan to combat antisemitism, which consists of preventing Australian workers from speaking out against Israel.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The NSW medicinal cannabis driving defence involves a lower THC limit that registered drivers aren't penalised for if under when testing positive on two occasions So, why not apply this THC threshold to all NSW drivers? 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-new...
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The New Medicinal Cannabis Drug Driving Threshold Ought to Be Extended to All NSW Drivers
The new defence whereby those prescribed cannabis can only be found guilty of drug driving if they have at least a certain concentration of THC in their system should be extended to all.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a supreme act of foreign interference, the Trump administration has condemned the Albanese government's proposed Digital Duty of Care as an illegitimate block on American free speech online 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/united-...
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United States Is Displeased with Australia’s Proposed Digital Duty of Care
The Trump administration has responded to Albanese’s plan to protect Australians from “seriously harmful material and conduct” by calling it a “blank cheque for political censorship”.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Minns government just passed reforms that water down the NSW Aboriginal land rights system, so that choice Sydney Crown land sites aren't able to be claimed by Aboriginal land councils, even if they're unused 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-gov...
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NSW Government Has Undermined Aboriginal Land Rights to Secure Coveted Crown Land
The Minns government has passed laws that the NSW Aboriginal Land Council attempted to stop being enacted as they undermine the NSW Aboriginal land rights system.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WA Anti-War Collective is leading protests against the staging of Land Forces 2026 in Boorloo-Perth next week and the Cook government has rolled out legislation to beef up policing powers to protect visiting warmongers 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/resisti...
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Resisting Rising Militarism: WA Anti-War Collective Organisers on Protesting Land Forces 2026
The Land Forces Exposition is being held in Perth this year, after activist responses to the weapons festival have seen it shift from its former homes in Brisbane and Melbourne.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Australians have entered the debate around guardrails for AI, after an AI agent from the US breached the online Medicare system. Yet many remain unaware that developers have serious concerns that AI could wipe out humanity 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/develop...
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Developers Are Warning the Same AI that Broke into Medicare Could Wipe Out Humanity
The AI revolution is increasingly appearing as an end of times scenario, as rogue AI agents start attacking systems and may eventually have the capacity to destroy humanity.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should Australians take immigration minister Burke at his word, when he says proposed deportation raids on visa overstayers won't descend into the violent chaos of the ICE raids currently sweeping the US? 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/raids-o...
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Raids on Visa Overstayers Won’t Resemble US ICE Raids, Minister Claims
Australian home affairs minister Tony Burke claims that a new force of migrant officers tasked with hunting down visa overstayers won’t abuse their powers.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In a time of genocide and mounting war, the Red Lines Package of legislation, progressed by a coalition of federal crossbenchers, would ensure that Australia is not complicit in any atrocity crimes overseas 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-red...
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The Red Lines Package Bill Would End Australian Complicity in Foreign Atrocities
The laws seek to formally withdraw Australia’s support for overseas atrocities, ensuring we do not “fund, arm or invest in conduct that violates the very principles of international law”.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In a time of genocide and mounting war, the Red Lines Package of legislation, progressed by a coalition of federal crossbenchers, would ensure that Australia is not complicit in any atrocity crimes overseas 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-red...
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The Red Lines Package Bill Would End Australian Complicity in Foreign Atrocities
The laws seek to formally withdraw Australia’s support for overseas atrocities, ensuring we do not “fund, arm or invest in conduct that violates the very principles of international law”.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As Sydney rallied on Gadigal at Taylor Square to demand an end to NSW police targeted drug raids on gay bars on Oxford Street, it was lost on no one that this is part of a broader creeping authoritarianism 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sydney-...
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Sydney Rallies to Demand that NSW Cops Stop Targeting Oxford Street Gay Bars
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Sydney’s Taylor Square to demonstrate against the recent NSW police midnight raids on Oxford Street gay bars.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The AFP commissioner wants a debate on illegal drugs, but instead of recognising that drug war law enforcement has failed, Barrett wants to blame people who use drugs for the related gangland violence that her forces can't disrupt 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/prohibi...
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Prohibition Causes Gangland Violence, Not People Who Use Drugs
AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett’s claim that drug users are responsible for gangland crime shifts the blame from the failure of prohibition, zero tolerance and the war on drugs.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NSW police with sniffer dogs have raided Oxford Street LGBTIQA+ venues for the second time of late, and the concern is that state law enforcement is returning to its prejudicial approach of the past 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police Force Is Back to Raiding LGBTIQA+ Licensed Venues on Oxford Street
The second set of raids on Oxford Street's licensed venues has raised concerns of a homophobic return to the police targeting LGBTIQA+ communities.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Zionist Federation targeted Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis because she refused to stay silent on the atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli government And Mary met their challenge and triumphed 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/kostaki...
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Kostakidis Reigns Victorious, as Zionist Lawfare Attempt to Silence Criticism of Israel Fizzles
The Zionist Federation of Australia has withdrawn its misguided antisemitism claim, having waged two years of lawfare in an attempt to smear and silence the renowned journalist.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Former Victoria police officer Greg Denham has called out AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett for blaming people who use drugs for the gangland drug-related violence on the streets, which is a byproduct of prohibition 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/afp-com...
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AFP Commissioner Blames People Who Use Drugs for Prohibition Policing Failures
The police commissioner has blamed drug users for 'contributing to deadly street violence and expanding criminal networks’, rather than admit prohibition is the root cause.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NSW Council for Civil Liberties president Timothy Roberts warns that the NSW State Surveillance Bill before parliament will empower NSW police to surveil the public using technologies that now hold the most intimate details about our lives 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/new-pol...
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New Police Phone Scanning Law Could Target Protesters: Interview NSWCCL’s Timothy Roberts
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties warns that laws the government claims are necessary to combat organised crime could be used to further suppress political dissent.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As the Minns government announced its third suite of organised crime laws, the concern is the powers NSW police is being gifted to surveil criminals is trashing the right to privacy for all 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/third-t...
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Third Tranche of NSW Organised Crime Laws Are Set to Further Erode the Rights of All
The NSW government claims the “new laws… [will] further disrupt, target and put away organised criminals”, but they will in reality further bolster state power at the expense of civil liberties.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The NSW premier and the ASIO boss have attempted to shift the blame around two key events - the Sydney Opera House protest and the Bondi Beach mass murder - onto the grassroots pro-Palestinian movement 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-bab...
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The Baby Premier and the Spy Boss Who Warned of Antisemitism
Both the NSW premier and the ASIO director general appeared in The Australian and they denied responsibility in respect of two antisemitic incidents in NSW.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As they rake it in at record rates, Australian billionaires are now angling for a One Nation-led coalition government that will deregulate mining, wind back climate red tape and end mass migration - just like the MAGA White House 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/austral...
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Australian Billionaires Continue to Rake It In, as Their Influence Over Politics Grows
While everyday Australians struggle and continue to feel disenfranchised, the wealth and political influence of our nation’s billionaires surges more than ever before.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Railroading Community Opposition”: Greens MLC Abigail Boyd on the Emerging Datacentre Crisis 👇 US AI companies are establishing datacentres across NSW, which will guzzle power and water, whilst storing foreign owned data 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/railroa...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Defence minister Marles has been meeting with Silicon Valley tech bros about AI investment down under that would comprise of hosting environment-destroying AI centres for US companies providing jobs-eroding tech on subscription 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-aus...
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The Australian Defence Minister’s AI Bonanza Is All About US Sovereignty
Australian defence minister Richard Marles met with tech giants in San Francisco to make arrangements that would see our nation surrendering more sovereignty to the US.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Footage obtained by Watch the Cops reveals a NSW police officer 'saying the quiet part out loud', which was that NSW police gleefully bashed the public during the anti-Herzog protest and all officers were on board with the mission 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/leaked-...
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Leaked Footage Reveals NSW Police Intentionally Brutalised the Public at Herzog
The footage shows an officer bragging about bashing a civilian at the rally against genocidal Israeli president Isaac Herzog, which supports eyewitness account of policing methods.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested on 9 October 2025 for blockading US spy base Pine Gap are in Alice Springs Magistrates Court on 14 September They consider going to court is another site to resist the Gaza genocide 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/another...
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“Another Site for Resistance”: Mparntwe for Falastin Activists on Their Pine Gap Blockade Prosecution
The Mparntwe for Falastin activists arrested as part of the 9 October 2025 blockade of the road into the US spy base at Pine Gap are facing criminal charges.
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Lola @lolat42.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🇦🇺 ‘The world is a particularly confusing place just now. But no one seems more confused about their place in it than Australia.’ I am confused about why any Australian would think Deputy PM Marles is on Australia’s side. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Everyone but Australia reconsiders relationship with America
No-one inside federal politics seems particularly interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After a decadeslong civil society campaign, the NSW government is finally rolling out pill testing or drug checking services, which will undoubtedly save lives www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/pill-te...
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Pill Testing Is Finally Being Made Permanent at NSW Music Festivals
After more than a decade of civil society campaigning, the NSW government is making pill testing at festivals permanent, so now advocates are calling for fixed-site services too.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
March for Australia rallied across state capitals last weekend to defend free speech, as the movement is concerned that its "right to be a bigot" is being impinged upon by mounting hate speech laws 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/march-f...
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March for Australia Rallied to Uphold Free Speech to Protect Expression of Racial Hatred
Many of those who attended the March for Australia were more intent on spewing hate speech than protecting non-inciteful freedom of political expression.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Trump administration has listed three far-left groups in Europe as terrorists. This is part of a general shift towards classing far-left acts as terrorism ASIO and the AFP are already acting in accordance with the shift 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-us-...
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The US Broadens the Far Leftwing Terrorist Group Net, with Clear Implications Down Under
The Trump White House has made another announcement about the framing of leftwing activists as terrorists, which is a shift that it is insisting its allies follow.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Calls to expel the Israeli ambassador are about more than his callous comments on Zomi Frankcom's murder, as he's condemned Australia as a hotbed of "Jew hatred" and denied local women's claims of sexual assault at IDF hands 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/its-hig...
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It’s High Time to Expel the Israeli Ambassador to Australia
Calls to expel the Israeli ambassador have continued since the Gaza genocide commenced, however the actions and words of the new ambassador are making these calls more urgent.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The inaugural meeting of the Australian chapter of International Parliamentarians for West Papua saw Greens Senator David Shoebridge host a West Papuan delegation led by ULMWP president Benny Wenda at Parliament House in Canberra 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/breakin...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ASIO's compulsory questioning regime has been expanded, so intelligence agents can now secretly haul in suspects and nonsuspects to compel them to answer questions, via threat of prison, on a broader range of security matters 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/asios-p...
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ASIO’s “Police State” Compulsory Questioning Regime Has Been Expanded
The organisation that operates with little transparency or accountability has had its powers to force members of the public to answer questions expanded, but not made permanent.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties is warning that an omnibus state surveillance bill currently before NSW parliament marks a move towards creating an “unprecedented police surveillance network via the imposition of three new invasive technologies 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-nsw...
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The NSW Surveillance Bill Is Set to Impact Us All, Regardless of Any Guilt
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties alerting the public about the mass surveillance bill currently before parliament, which is ostensibly to combat crime but will in reality impact us all.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
McBride has been released from prison after serving a harsh sentence for blowing the whistle on ADF war crimes - yet he continues to be the only person to have served time in relation to Australian war crimes in Afghanistan 👇 www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1460/an... via @greenleftonline.bsky.social
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has opened the pro bono Walumarra Legal Centre to serve the network of land councils, as the NSW government is seeking to legislatively undermine the state system of Aboriginal land rights 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-wal...
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The Walumarra Legal Centre Is Open, Explains NSW Aboriginal Land Council Lawyer Daniel Byers
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has opened the pro bono Walumarra Legal Centre in order to service the needs of the network of Aboriginal land councils and their communities.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Despite NSW police rejecting suggestions that a private Jewish security organisation be permitted to pack guns to protect people at public events, NSW premier Chris Minns considers the proposal should be trialled 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pre...
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NSW Premier Considers Arming Private Jewish Security in Public, Despite Police Disapproval
The NSW premier’s proposal to authorise Community Security Group to provide armed security at public events is potentially dangerous and heavily discriminates in favour of the Jewish Community.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Tech bro Peter Thiel is at the centre of an alliance between Silicon Valley and the MAGA White House, which involves establishing mass surveillance that reaches down under and a secret society of billionaires plotting the future 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/how-tec...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
March for Australia is taking to the streets again nationwide at the end of this month, which marks a year since it began mobilising The difference this year is that white nationalism has become mainstream 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/march-f...
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March for Australia Is Mobilising Again, and This Month It’s to Protect Free Speech
March for Australia is organising nationwide rallies to send the message that politicians who choose to pass free speech-eroding laws will face the consequences at the ballot box.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Australian authorities are trialling new policing practices that, if successful, can then be rolled out to other areas of a jurisdiction without the need for legislative process, political debate or public consultation. 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-pri...
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The Principle of Policing by Consent Is Falling Across Australia
The democratic principle that the public are meant to authorise police powers is increasingly being ignored as governments routinely augment and expand police powers without consultation.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The body oversighting NSW police has ordered that it reopen its inquiry into the aggressive sniffer dog raids on LGBTIQA+ nightclubs on Sydney's Oxford Street during Pride month, after it had cleared itself of all wrongdoing 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The attorney general has released ADF whistleblower David McBride on parole. The former legal officer continues to be the only person to have been convicted in relation to the Australian war crimes in Afghanistan he helped exposed 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/mcbride...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NSW is to share all driver licence images to a national database, where they can be matched with photos to prevent identity fraud. And the government has promised not to use the capability this has for mass surveillance 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-dri...
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NSW Driver Licence Photos to Be Incorporated into Federal Biometric Facial Database
The Minns government is providing all NSW driver licence photos to a federal database to facilitate identity matching services that it has promised won’t be used for mass surveillance.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Students are staging a walkout against the prospect of far-right Pauline Hanson One Nation governance, however it appears that some consider these future leaders should not have a say in the current political climate 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/student...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The AFP is investigating a pro-Palestinian direct action targeting a weapon parts manufacturer as "far-left terrorism", which is part of a shift to prosecuting left wing actors as terrorists that the AUKUS powers are taking 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/afp-inv...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NSW is to establish an alternative to NSW police as first responders to mental health crises in the community to end the issue of death that can arise when sending in armed law enforcement to deal with a social care issue 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/mental-...
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Mental Health Experts Will Soon Provide an Alternative First Response to Crisis Callouts
The NSW government has announced that first responders will have an emergency line to “specialist clinical support” when attending callouts involving those suffering mental health crises.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Productivity Commission has found that on any given night over 70 percent of Aboriginal kids in prison are on remand, or are yet to be sentenced, while each child is spending on average 57 days inside prior to case finalisation 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/more-th...
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More Than 70 Percent of Aboriginal Kids Behind Bars Australia Are on Remand
The Productivity Commission found that most incarcerated First Nations youths in Australia have not been convicted over the charges brought against them.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The family of Kumanjayi White has initiated action with the NT Supreme Court to ascertain whether an NT police officer ultimately decided not to press charges against two colleagues who held the man down until he stopped breathing 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/answers...
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Answers Sought Over Why Charges Haven’t Been Laid Over Kumanjayi White’s Custody Death
Kumanjayi White’s family is taking the Northern Territory government to court for answers as to why criminal charges were not brought against the officers that caused his death.
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anticop @anticopofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From @paulrgregoire.bsky.social - The NSW government continues to expand police surveillance.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The NSW police power to require the subject of a warrant to open their digital device for a scan is to be extended to routine arrests and stops Police then download device content which includes all past deleted encrypted messages 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police to Be Given Powers to Access and Download Phone Content on the Beat
The NSW government is introducing laws that would give police officers broad power to compel individuals to provide access to their digital devices for scanning and downloading.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The NT Finocchiaro government has overhauled the childcare protection system to remove a key reform that worked to stop to the Stolen Generations, or the forced mass removal of First Nations kids, leaving the gate open once more 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/norther...
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Northern Territory Passes Law to Create Another Stolen Generations
The Northern Territory government has abolished a policy that was designed to ensure stolen generations would never again occur.
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The NSW police Moree drone trial has been hailed a crime-fighting success, although the evidence for this is dubious. So it's now set to be rolled out statewide Mind you, the authorities assure it has nothing to do with surveillance www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police Drone Surveillance Trial in Moree Is Set to Be Rolled Out Statewide
The NSW Police Force is singing the praises of its six-month trial of drone policing in the Moree region, and the authorities are keen to roll out the devices statewide.
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