The New Crime, or, 'Andsome 'Enery's Mare's Nest is a 1868 Australian stage play by Walter Cooper.

[4] The Tamworth Examiner said "the English papers have treated the colony to a little bit of their mind" over the issue and since "Sydney people feel that they have a good deal to answer for in connection with the matter, and feeling further the humiliation which has been brought upon them, are prepared to go to great lengths to relieve themselves in some way of the very severe rebuke which have been administered them.

Mr, Cooper, in order to meet popular sentiment, has written a farce.

[5] The Sydney Morning Herald said the play was "well written, and contains sufficient humour spiced with hits upon posed and passing events to provoke considerable amusement.

We have not the least doubt but that if properly handled the farce will prove successful, for a more shameful trick was never played upon any community of Englishmen by a Cabinet Minister than that performed by Mr. Parkes with his "New Crime".