
NSW Police Appeal Ruling on Strip-Search Force
New South Wales police are appealing a class action loss from 2025, where a court ruled that force used during a music festival strip-search was unlawful and unjustified.
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New South Wales police are appealing a class action loss from 2025, where a court ruled that force used during a music festival strip-search was unlawful and unjustified.

New South Wales police have made 993 arrests and laid 2,063 charges during a four-day operation targeting domestic violence offenders with a history of abuse, alongside conducting 1,847 bail compliance checks.

Broadcaster Alan Jones's lawyers claim invalid warrants and "willy-nilly" searches by NSW police in a sex abuse investigation, demanding to know which officers accessed his phone data.

‘Now is the time to speak up,’ NSW police minister says as manhunt continues after January killings Warning: This article contains references to Indigenous Australians who have died Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast NSW police have offered a $250,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of Julian Ingram, the suspected triple murderer accused of fatally shooting his pregnant former partner, her boyf...

NSW police have found evidence linked to 85-year-old Sydney kidnap victim Chris Baghsarian in a burnt-out car, 11 days after he was abducted in a case of mistaken identity. The car is also linked to an abandoned Dural property as the search continues.

Australia's opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has indicated that his Liberal party will completely abandon its commitment to net zero emissions.

A royal commission heard that gunmen shot 11 people within 30 seconds at Bondi beach, with NSW police declining a static presence but four officers being at the event when the attack began.

New South Wales police have decided to drop charges against protesters of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Sydney, which were initially laid using unlawful public assembly restrictions.

Lawyers have criticized the 'extreme' arrest of a 42-year-old protester following a February rally against Israeli President Isaac Herzog in New South Wales. The incident led to violent clashes between police and protesters, with the individual being the 26th person charged.

New South Wales police have admitted to making a 'very unfortunate' wrong claim during an inquest, stating that a man shot dead by an officer was 'known to police,' which was incorrect.

NSW police have discovered evidence linked to 85-year-old kidnap victim Chris Baghsarian in a burnt-out car, 11 days after his abduction in a case of mistaken identity.

Widespread allegations of police brutality followed a rally outside Sydney’s Town Hall on 9 February against visit by Isaac Herzog The New South Wales police commissioner has ended a restriction on protests that effectively banned marches in designated areas now that Israeli president Isaac Herzog has left Australia. On Tuesday, Mal Lanyon announced the restriction would cease, meaning protester organisers can once again use the form 1 system to facilitate marches with police, without the risk of being arrested in the CBD and the eastern suburbs. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Families of victims have called for health workers to be first responders and police minister says deal with NSW Health ‘very close to being signed’ Follow our Australia news live blog…

An inquest has commenced into the death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who died after being Tasered by NSW police, aiming to address outstanding questions and examine dementia training for aged care staff, police, and ambulance officers.

A national watchdog has found that the New South Wales police force is overusing 'highly intrusive' legal powers to monitor phones and computers, with Victoria and Queensland police also failing to keep adequate records.

Human remains suspected of being those of Baghsarian were found on Tuesday morning near a golf club in Pitt Town, on Sydney’s northwest fringe Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two men have been arrested “in relation to the alleged kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian”, police have said. NSW police said a man, 29, was arrested in Kenthurst and a man, 24, was arrested in Castle Hill. They were ...

Baghsarian, 85, was taken from his North Ryde home last Friday in what police say was a case of mistaken identity Police have executed a warrant at a semi-rural property believed to be linked to the mistaken kidnapping of grandfather Chris Baghsarian. The 85-year-old man has been held captive since three men bundled him into a dark-coloured SUV outside his Sydney home just before dawn last Friday. Continue reading...