Please join Crime Scene Australia at 10:15am on Friday 13 November 2026 for a full court hearing of Uncle Robbie Thorpe & Sydney Human Rights Lawyer Dan Taylor’s appeal in the challenge to the ongoing proscription of Hamas as a terrorist organisation.
Location: Court One (Level 8), Owen Dixon Commonwealth Law Courts Building Level 7, 305 William Street, Melbourne – Before: Justice O’Callaghan, Justice Kennett, Justice Vandongen
The Full Court of the Federal Court will hear Uncle Robbie Thorpe & Dan Taylor’s appeal in the challenge to the ongoing proscription of Hamas as a terrorist organisation, on 13 November 2026.
The appeal challenges Australia’s continued proscription of Hamas in its entirety. Their case is that in determining whether the entirety of Hamas should remain proscribed, the Minister was required to identify the motivation of the broader movement for supporting Palestinian armed resistance against the Israeli occupation.
The appellant’s case is that the retention in the terror listing, of Hamas’s broader political, civil, governmental, social and service structures, in a time of genocide, was unlawful. Designating Hamas pre-school teachers, street sweepers, doctors, midwives and mental health nurses, as members of a terrorist organisation, was always a dehumanising step too far. The proscription decision was outside of the bounds of humanity.