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New Sexual Assault Laws Proposed For NSW: Victim Experience Reforms
The NSW Government has introduced sweeping reforms to sexual assault trial procedures, fundamentally altering how complainants are questioned, how their evidence is recorded, and what access defence lawyers have to counselling records. These changes represent the most significant overhaul of adult sexual assault prosecutions in years, but raise critical questions about whether they appropriately balance victim protection against the fundamental rights of the accused.
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New Medicinal Cannabis Driving Laws In NSW
New South Wales has become the first Australian state to introduce a conditional registration scheme for medicinal cannabis patients, replacing automatic drug driving penalties with a threshold-based system. The reform requires patients to register with Transport for NSW and complete mandatory education, but questions remain about whether the new framework adequately balances road safety with patient rights.
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The NSW Government has introduced sweeping reforms to sexual assault trial procedures, fundamentally altering how complainants are questioned, how their evidence is recorded, and what access defence lawyers have to counselling records. These changes represent the most significant overhaul of adult sexual assault prosecutions in years, but raise critical questions about whether they appropriately balance victim protection against the fundamental rights of the accused.
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Can I Carry A Knife For Self Defence?
New South Wales has introduced permanent legislation allowing police to use metal detector wands to scan people for knives in designated public areas, following successful trial operations that seized 380 weapons. The reforms expand police powers while raising concerns about civil liberties, racial profiling, and the potential for these scans to become stepping-stones for more invasive searches, despite knife crime being at an all-time low in NSW.
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Anti-Protest Laws NSW | The Right To Peacefully Gather And Protest
The NSW Court of Appeal has struck down sweeping anti-protest laws enacted after the Bondi Beach terror attack, ruling that police powers to ban public assemblies across broad geographic areas violated constitutional protections for political communication. The landmark decision examines whether governments can impose blanket restrictions on peaceful protests during times of heightened security concerns, and what constitutional limits exist on such powers.
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