1. Expansión de Poderes y el 'Estado Policial' en Melbourne.
La Policía de Victoria (Victoria Police) ha sido objeto de fuertes críticas por declarar el CBD de Melbourne como un "área designada" durante seis meses, otorgando a los oficiales poderes extraordinarios para realizar búsquedas sin orden judicial ni motivos razonables, lo que ha sido calificado como un abuso de poder y un paso hacia un "estado policial".
- Distressing news melbourne cbd more - includes my workplace - being turned into an actual police state for the next six months. Police will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds.
- Vast overreach police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner melbourne for six months search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the cbd and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups.
- Victoria police expand warrantless search powers over large parts of melbourne with no reason given this doesnt seem like something a police force should just be able to declare.
- The declaration of central melbourne as a designated area for 6 months is a disturbing overreach. This declaration gives police extraordinary powers to stop and search people without a warrant, or even reasonable grounds - and over an unprecedented area and timeframe 13.
2. Racismo Sistémico y Perfiles Raciales.
Investigaciones y datos recientes confirman un patrón de perfiles raciales por parte de las fuerzas policiales australianas, con personas aborígenes y de color siendo desproporcionadamente detenidas, registradas y sujetas a uso de fuerza, a pesar de las políticas de "tolerancia cero" de los departamentos.
- Aboriginal victorians 15 times more likely to be searched by police victoria police said they rejected the findings, made in research released by the centre against racial profiling.
- Act police accused of racial profiling for allegedly pulling guns on indigenous teenager after mistaking him for suspect australian police and policing police in canberra allegedly pulled their guns on a 17-year-old indigenous boy who us news usnews.
- Not just a few bad apples data shows victoria police far more likely to target aboriginal and racialised communities nit.com.au24-11-20252. Idlenomore anonymous.
- If you are aboriginal, pasifika, african or of middle eastern appearance or origin, you are at least five times more likely to be stopped and searched by police and twice as likely to be subjected to the use of force than if you are white.
3. Fallos Policiales Críticos en Casos de Violencia Doméstica.
Una serie de investigaciones expuso fallos graves y sistémicos en la respuesta de la Policía de Queensland (QLD Police) a casos de violencia doméstica, incluyendo la pérdida de evidencia, la divulgación ilegal de información de víctimas y el asesoramiento a perpetradores, lo que contribuyó a múltiples feminicidios.
- Bodycam footage from queensland police shows officers coaching rowan baxter how to avoid a domestic violence order. Baxter would later go on to burn his whole family alive.
- Police made potentially critical mistakes in hannah clarke murders, new evidence reveals queensland new evidence uncovered by guardian australia reveals serious police failings in the lead-up to the murders of hannah.
- Queensland police unlawfully gave victims addresses to domestic and family violence offenders in seven cases, despite being aware of the risks for years, a report has found.
- Kardell lomass heartbreaking apology to police is a moment that should shame all australians amy mcquire three months before kardell lomas and her unborn baby were killed in a horrific act of feminicide in.
4. Doble Estándar en la Gestión de Protestas y Uso de Fuerza Excesiva.
Se ha criticado a la Policía de NSW por permitir y, en algunos casos, aprobar manifestaciones de grupos neonazis, mientras que se utiliza fuerza excesiva, arrestos masivos y armamento antidisturbios contra manifestantes por el clima y contra el genocidio, e incluso contra ancianos en residencias.
- Nsw police authorise neo-nazi protest at state parliament.
- Nsw police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78 newcastle and the hunter the guardian sun 30 nov 2025.
- Nsw police use capsicum spray to subdue 87-year-old man in sydney nursing home new south wales new south wales police have used capsicum spray to subdue an 87-year-old man in a sydney nursing home.
- Police detonated a stinger grenade at a melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries auspol scout one of two people considering legal action against police for injuries caused by the 19 october explosion, near the intersection of spring and little bourke streets.