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HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. DO ACT WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTIONS Current ACT legislation. Whistleblower protections in the ACT are governed by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (ACT). There have been amendments to the Act in 2020 by the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment Act 2020 (ACT). While the Amendment Act has been passed, it has not yet (12 March 2021) become effective. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
99.17% INNOCENT…BUT PUNISHED? PETITION AVAILABLE What’s fair? Should all the special forces soldiers be punished for the alleged criminal acts of the few, by the withdrawal of the commendation as a meritorious unit? In fact, many SOTG soldiers had the moral courage to speak up when their superiors remained deathly silent. Shouldn’t charges be proven in a court of law before any action is taken? CLA member Dr Kay Danes outlines the issues CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: COMPARING SOCIETIES Capital punishment: comparing societies. Abstract This paper explores the proposition that capital punishment is a cruel and unusual punishment against a legal, moral, socio-cultural and human rights framework. There are no best standards for inflicting capital punishment, regardless of whether in either Western or non-Westernsociety.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. GOOD, BAD, UGLY OF ‘TREATING’ MENTAL ILLNESS REVEALED A new book revealing the doings inside a now-closed ‘mental asylum’ is an important contribution to civil liberties and human rights. It is a timely reminded – as a health panic starts to threaten more government abuse – that it is vital to keep shining torches into those places that authorities would prefer are forgotten. Review by Reg. Murray. BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. DO ACT WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTIONS Current ACT legislation. Whistleblower protections in the ACT are governed by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (ACT). There have been amendments to the Act in 2020 by the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment Act 2020 (ACT). While the Amendment Act has been passed, it has not yet (12 March 2021) become effective. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
99.17% INNOCENT…BUT PUNISHED? PETITION AVAILABLE What’s fair? Should all the special forces soldiers be punished for the alleged criminal acts of the few, by the withdrawal of the commendation as a meritorious unit? In fact, many SOTG soldiers had the moral courage to speak up when their superiors remained deathly silent. Shouldn’t charges be proven in a court of law before any action is taken? CLA member Dr Kay Danes outlines the issues CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: COMPARING SOCIETIES Capital punishment: comparing societies. Abstract This paper explores the proposition that capital punishment is a cruel and unusual punishment against a legal, moral, socio-cultural and human rights framework. There are no best standards for inflicting capital punishment, regardless of whether in either Western or non-Westernsociety.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. GOOD, BAD, UGLY OF ‘TREATING’ MENTAL ILLNESS REVEALED A new book revealing the doings inside a now-closed ‘mental asylum’ is an important contribution to civil liberties and human rights. It is a timely reminded – as a health panic starts to threaten more government abuse – that it is vital to keep shining torches into those places that authorities would prefer are forgotten. Review by Reg. Murray. BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. POLICE INFILTRATE IPHONE PRIVACY By Bill Rowlings and Rajan Venkataraman* Every time a new restrictions regime enters public consciousness, police go overboard. The latest example is in Queensland, where officers apparently decided they could take possession of – and themselves search – mobile phones belonging to airline passengers landing at Brisbane airport. DO ACT WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTIONS Current ACT legislation. Whistleblower protections in the ACT are governed by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (ACT). There have been amendments to the Act in 2020 by the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment Act 2020 (ACT). While the Amendment Act has been passed, it has not yet (12 March 2021) become effective. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. 99.17% INNOCENT…BUT PUNISHED? PETITION AVAILABLE What’s fair? Should all the special forces soldiers be punished for the alleged criminal acts of the few, by the withdrawal of the commendation as a meritorious unit? In fact, many SOTG soldiers had the moral courage to speak up when their superiors remained deathly silent. Shouldn’t charges be proven in a court of law before any action is taken? CLA member Dr Kay Danes outlines the issues VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
GOOD, BAD, UGLY OF ‘TREATING’ MENTAL ILLNESS REVEALED A new book revealing the doings inside a now-closed ‘mental asylum’ is an important contribution to civil liberties and human rights. It is a timely reminded – as a health panic starts to threaten more government abuse – that it is vital to keep shining torches into those places that authorities would prefer are forgotten. Review by Reg. Murray. BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory ‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM Drug prohibition causes the harm. 24 November 2018. 24 November 2018. By Paul Gregoire. There’s a rising awareness that the century-old system of drug prohibition is failing. It’s evident in the global moves to legalise cannabis, the internationally-lauded Portuguese drug decriminalisation model and the widespread calls to start treating BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles DOES PERVERTED JUSTICE PREVAIL IN AUSTRALIA’S DEEP SOUTH? In his own handwriting to me, McLaren (photo) writes: “Be prepared to be shocked!”. The book blurb says: “The guilty are still out there!” Both statements are spot on. It is a shocking book. Those with most to fear are the guilty, still WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. POLICE INFILTRATE IPHONE PRIVACY By Bill Rowlings and Rajan Venkataraman* Every time a new restrictions regime enters public consciousness, police go overboard. The latest example is in Queensland, where officers apparently decided they could take possession of – and themselves search – mobile phones belonging to airline passengers landing at Brisbane airport. DO ACT WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS PROVIDE ADEQUATE PROTECTIONS Current ACT legislation. Whistleblower protections in the ACT are governed by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (ACT). There have been amendments to the Act in 2020 by the Public Interest Disclosure Amendment Act 2020 (ACT). While the Amendment Act has been passed, it has not yet (12 March 2021) become effective. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. 99.17% INNOCENT…BUT PUNISHED? PETITION AVAILABLE What’s fair? Should all the special forces soldiers be punished for the alleged criminal acts of the few, by the withdrawal of the commendation as a meritorious unit? In fact, many SOTG soldiers had the moral courage to speak up when their superiors remained deathly silent. Shouldn’t charges be proven in a court of law before any action is taken? CLA member Dr Kay Danes outlines the issues VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
GOOD, BAD, UGLY OF ‘TREATING’ MENTAL ILLNESS REVEALED A new book revealing the doings inside a now-closed ‘mental asylum’ is an important contribution to civil liberties and human rights. It is a timely reminded – as a health panic starts to threaten more government abuse – that it is vital to keep shining torches into those places that authorities would prefer are forgotten. Review by Reg. Murray. BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory ‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes POLICE INFILTRATE IPHONE PRIVACY By Bill Rowlings and Rajan Venkataraman* Every time a new restrictions regime enters public consciousness, police go overboard. The latest example is in Queensland, where officers apparently decided they could take possession of – and themselves search – mobile phones belonging to airline passengers landing at Brisbane airport. FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. AUSTRALIA: ARE WE A FASCIST STATE? A practical example of how far the Australian nation has tumbled down the path to a fascist state, and away from a healthy democracy, is the ever-expanding crusade against smoking and smokers. Fascists from nearly a century ago rally to practice their personality cult worship. Most Australians believe tobacco controls are based on health WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
AM I LIVING IN A POLICE STATE? By John Passant* Am I living in a police state? One day in June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst.The next day it was the turn of journalists in the Sydney offices of the ABC.. They were looking for information that they could use to prosecute whistle-blowers who provided the information to journalists. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory PRISON: COSTS UP, NUMBERS UP This was an increase from $12.3 billion in 2007–08. The average annual growth rate for total costs was 3.3% over the period 2007–08 to 2011–12 with the growth rate for expenditure increasing for criminal courts by 3.5% and corrective services by 2.9%.1. The economic costs of imprisonment in Australia are substantial. WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes POLICE INFILTRATE IPHONE PRIVACY By Bill Rowlings and Rajan Venkataraman* Every time a new restrictions regime enters public consciousness, police go overboard. The latest example is in Queensland, where officers apparently decided they could take possession of – and themselves search – mobile phones belonging to airline passengers landing at Brisbane airport. FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. AUSTRALIA: ARE WE A FASCIST STATE? A practical example of how far the Australian nation has tumbled down the path to a fascist state, and away from a healthy democracy, is the ever-expanding crusade against smoking and smokers. Fascists from nearly a century ago rally to practice their personality cult worship. Most Australians believe tobacco controls are based on health WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
AM I LIVING IN A POLICE STATE? By John Passant* Am I living in a police state? One day in June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst.The next day it was the turn of journalists in the Sydney offices of the ABC.. They were looking for information that they could use to prosecute whistle-blowers who provided the information to journalists. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory PRISON: COSTS UP, NUMBERS UP This was an increase from $12.3 billion in 2007–08. The average annual growth rate for total costs was 3.3% over the period 2007–08 to 2011–12 with the growth rate for expenditure increasing for criminal courts by 3.5% and corrective services by 2.9%.1. The economic costs of imprisonment in Australia are substantial. WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT ENDS. – By Bill Rowlings, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia v171123. * Strictly, the 7% who are innocent are drawn from those men and women in Australian jails, convicted of murder, rape of other serious crimes, who have been through every original charge and appeal court process, and lostand who still protest their innocence. HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT High cost of retrial puts case in doubt. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the retrial. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE The rate of imprisonment in Australia has been growing rapidly over the past decades, even though actual crime rates have fallen . We currently have around 43,000 people in 118 prisons, or around 221 out of every 100,000 adults in Australia. Federal MP Andrew Leigh calculates this is the highest rate of incarceration since the 1800s,leading
BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Generally speaking, in the law of negligence damage may be quantifiable injury or harm to a person, to property or to a person’s interests. In cases of medical negligence it will usually be bodily injury or harm. In the last 10 years or so there have been three cases before the High Court which have challenged acceptednotions of damage.
‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS A man 30 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit, may soon be free. On Thursday 12 September 2013 Derek Bromley was advised that the Parole Board of South Australia had recommended that he be released on parole. He has so far served nearly 30 years imprisonment – 6 years over his non-parole period. EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Evils of mandatory sentencing on display. 29 July 2018. 31 July 2018. By Felicity Gerry* QC, Julia Kretzenbacher, Julian R Murphy and Rebecca Tisdale. Last week we filed a mercy petition for Zak Grieve, a young Indigenous man sentenced to life imprisonment under the Northern Territory’s mandatory sentencing laws for a murder that he did not NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes POLICE INFILTRATE IPHONE PRIVACY By Bill Rowlings and Rajan Venkataraman* Every time a new restrictions regime enters public consciousness, police go overboard. The latest example is in Queensland, where officers apparently decided they could take possession of – and themselves search – mobile phones belonging to airline passengers landing at Brisbane airport. FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. AUSTRALIA: ARE WE A FASCIST STATE? A practical example of how far the Australian nation has tumbled down the path to a fascist state, and away from a healthy democracy, is the ever-expanding crusade against smoking and smokers. Fascists from nearly a century ago rally to practice their personality cult worship. Most Australians believe tobacco controls are based on health WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Members of the bar protest a particular specialisation. It is one which allies them closely with the courts in the discharge of the charter of the delivery of justice according to the law. The barrister’s speciality, in relation to the courts, is dual: first, expert advocacy, both oral, and increasingly these days, in writing;and•.
AM I LIVING IN A POLICE STATE? By John Passant* Am I living in a police state? One day in June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst.The next day it was the turn of journalists in the Sydney offices of the ABC.. They were looking for information that they could use to prosecute whistle-blowers who provided the information to journalists. IDENTIFY...DISRUPT: DUTTON TO FURTHER EXTEND SURVEILLANCE The drip-drip-drip of inexorable increasingly-repressive surveillance laws keep emanating from the black hole of Home Affairs, run by Minister Peter Dutton and his sidekick Mike 'The Pezz’ Pezzullo. The title of their latest Bill explains what they want to do to the Australian people and society: Identify and Disrupt. VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The privacy of Victorians has been enhanced with the passing of ‘Sexting’ legislation. People who send ‘Sexts’ – which teenagers particularly delight in doing – will now be protected in law from their non-consensual distribution to third parties. ‘Sexting’ is “ the creating, sharing, sending or posting ofsexually explicit
BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory PRISON: COSTS UP, NUMBERS UP This was an increase from $12.3 billion in 2007–08. The average annual growth rate for total costs was 3.3% over the period 2007–08 to 2011–12 with the growth rate for expenditure increasing for criminal courts by 3.5% and corrective services by 2.9%.1. The economic costs of imprisonment in Australia are substantial. WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Zak Grieve withdrew from a murder plot before the event, refusing to go through with it. But that didn't save him from two legal evils, mandatory sentencing and the 'joint criminal enterprise' doctrine. Under the latter, he was guilty because he knew of the plot in advance, and didn't stop it. Under mandatory sentencing, Zak – the 19-year-old who wasn't there, who had no previous criminal REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE CLA campaigns for the rights of prisonersand for saving taxpayers’ money. We call our approach ‘smart on crime, rather than the ‘tough on crime’ mantra. That’s the false propaganda microphoned out by politicians and news media before elections. Their way lies bigger prisons, more prisoners, fewer people rehabilitated and much greater cost to the purses and wallet of citizens BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Question: If in the state of Qld, in a Major Qld state Hospital. If a patient was to have lower lumber surgery on their L4/L5 fusion surgery and that surgery was warded a success however, that surgeon was to write on his Post Op notes that the patient was to receive ( Ted’s PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT By BILL ROWLINGS, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia. About 300 Australian women and men convicted of major crimes are in jail today – and for many years to come – who should be free. ‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS Only the guilty leave prison: the innocent remain locked up. Catch 22 has kept Derek Bromley 30 years behind bars. Soon, even he may breathefreely again.
HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM When people die or serve years in jail because they took drugs, there’s one group for whom the suffering never ends, the parents. Here reporter Paul Gregoire explores what one often-overlooked group, the Parents and Friends of Drug Law Reform, believe is the way forward to reducing deaths and ameliorate the consequences and suffering of the health problem that is the taking of drugs in our NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIESCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYCIVIL LIBERTIES ISSUES TODAYFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESFULL LIST OF CIVIL LIBERTIESWHAT ARE OUR CIVIL LIBERTIESCONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES DEFINITION Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes EVILS OF MANDATORY SENTENCING ON DISPLAY Zak Grieve withdrew from a murder plot before the event, refusing to go through with it. But that didn't save him from two legal evils, mandatory sentencing and the 'joint criminal enterprise' doctrine. Under the latter, he was guilty because he knew of the plot in advance, and didn't stop it. Under mandatory sentencing, Zak – the 19-year-old who wasn't there, who had no previous criminal REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE CLA campaigns for the rights of prisonersand for saving taxpayers’ money. We call our approach ‘smart on crime, rather than the ‘tough on crime’ mantra. That’s the false propaganda microphoned out by politicians and news media before elections. Their way lies bigger prisons, more prisoners, fewer people rehabilitated and much greater cost to the purses and wallet of citizens BE WARNED: MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Question: If in the state of Qld, in a Major Qld state Hospital. If a patient was to have lower lumber surgery on their L4/L5 fusion surgery and that surgery was warded a success however, that surgeon was to write on his Post Op notes that the patient was to receive ( Ted’s PRISONERS IN AUSTRALIA? 7% ARE INNOCENT By BILL ROWLINGS, CEO of Civil Liberties Australia. About 300 Australian women and men convicted of major crimes are in jail today – and for many years to come – who should be free. ‘INNOCENT’ MAN FREE AFTER 30 YEARS Only the guilty leave prison: the innocent remain locked up. Catch 22 has kept Derek Bromley 30 years behind bars. Soon, even he may breathefreely again.
HIGH COST OF RETRIAL PUTS CASE IN DOUBT David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the DRUG PROHIBITION CAUSES THE HARM When people die or serve years in jail because they took drugs, there’s one group for whom the suffering never ends, the parents. Here reporter Paul Gregoire explores what one often-overlooked group, the Parents and Friends of Drug Law Reform, believe is the way forward to reducing deaths and ameliorate the consequences and suffering of the health problem that is the taking of drugs in our NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE MEDIA BRIEFING Networked Knowledge Media Briefing The Networked Knowledge Derek Bromley Homepage This update by Dr Robert N Moles COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice WELCOME - CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA - CIVIL LIBERTIES Civil Liberties Australia (CLA) is a national organisation headquartered in Australia’s capital city, Canberra. CLA stands for people’s rights, and goes FEDERAL GOVT TO SILENCE PROTEST BY CHARITY CRACKDOWN The federal grovernment is trying to stop protest against activities like fracking, geneically-modified crops and animal cruelty (among others) by a third-party, ’thought police’ approach to making charities responsible for activitie about which they are unaware and over people aover whom they have no control. Welcome to the world of political ideology gone rampant, as Paul Gregoire reports. WHAT IS A BARRISTER'S DUTY? Well may Paul de Jersey promulgate that which he believes to be a barrister’s duty, but if justice is to prevail, then anyone at all, at any time whatsoever, should they feel forensically so inclined in but the slightest, can deem it their duty to do whatever it takes to ensure that our courts are prevented from achieving wrongful convictions, because our courts are not there to wrongfully AUSTRALIA: ARE WE A FASCIST STATE? By Mark Jarratt, Director, Civil Liberties Australia. In the excruciating period leading to the 2019 federal election, within a day of Parliament reconvening for the year, politicians were again indulging in fear mongering, with the usual targets of “boat people” and the never-ending war on terrorism. PRISON: COSTS UP, NUMBERS UP A parliament committee, examining justice reinvestment in Australia, has produced the latest statistics on our prison system. It costs more than $300 a day to keep a prisoner in jail, and more than $600 a day to keep a juvenile in detention. Taxpayers d AM I LIVING IN A POLICE STATE? By John Passant* Am I living in a police state? One day in June 2019, the Australian Federal Police raided the home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst.The next day it was the turn of journalists in the Sydney offices of the ABC.. They were looking for information that they could use to prosecute whistle-blowers who provided the information to journalists. CLA CALLS FOR EXTRADITION MONITOR Imminent new extradition and mutual assistance laws should incorporate the strong recommendations made by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, at CLA’s instigation, for Australia to monitor and report to Parliament annually on the subsequent fate of people we extradite. BIKE HELMET FINES ARE ENOUGH TO DO YOUR HEAD IN Australia was first to mandate wearing bike helmets to enhance safety for bicyclists. But the fines have gone crazy, police abuse propensity is huge and, as usual, the poor suffer more than others. A bike fine can even follow you into later life, and cost you a job. The fines are examples of Executive regulatory regimes gone feral, two academics say.Penalty notices, bicycle fines, mandatory VICTORIA PASSES ‘SEXTING’ LAWS... The other side of the coin being when an ON DUTY Victoria police officer decided to send my fiancé explicit texts and images of himself knowing she was engaged and a mother he was given only a verbal warning for being in the words of his Sargent “a silly boy who doesn’t deserve any more embarrassment while i was repeatedly threatened with 2 years prison if i identified him in any way. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Civil%Liberties%AustraliaA04043%%%%%Speech,CJNSWTomBathurst: Community%participationin criminal%justice%% 1%% Community participation in criminal justice__
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CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA Promoting people's rights and civil liberties. It is non-party political and independent of other organisations. WELCOME – CIVIL LIBERTIES AUSTRALIA POLICE-PRISON ‘INDUSTRY’ MOST DANGEROUS WORKPLACE IN NSW?3 January 2020
Statistics show that more deaths occur in the police-prisons workplace than in the supposed highly dangerous industries in NSW. But deaths in police-prisons facilities are ignored in workplace health and safety analysis. For the sake of police and prison workers, at the very least, the impacts of deaths in such facilities must be formally referred to the workplace regulator for proper investigation, analysis and downstream action.Read full article
CLA’S 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)2 January 2020
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accordance with CLA’s Constitution, the 2020 _electronic annual general meeting_ or eAGM of Civil Liberties Australia Inc will be held during February and March 2020. The eAGM will consider any major notices of motion and, as required by regulation and voting on the annual reports of CLA.Read full article
JANUARY 2020 CLARION NEWSLETTER: CLA HELPS CHALK UP RARE WIN AS INITIATIVES BEGIN ON PRISONS, PRESS FREEDOM, WHISTLEBLOWERS1 January 2020
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former Chief Justice dropped a ‘bombshell’ when his year-long inquiry in WA found criminal assets-seizing laws were “largely unconcerned whether confiscation is fair or just’. CLA has campaigned against the laws for about 15 years. Similar laws elsewhere should also end, as should a cosy new scheme where governments divide up their jointly ill-gotten proceeds stemming from bad law. In 2020, new campaigns will try to to end senseless, arbitrary censorship inside prisons and make ‘law and order’ elections less popular, while the main law reform body will focus on financial services, defamation, press freedom and whistleblowers. * AGs' work program includes tackling betting in sport * Reforms planned for enduring power of attorney * Committee wants to give Minister Dutton more power * 'Christian conservatives have never had it so good’: Patten * 'Tax is a symptom of mental health prejudice’: member letter * Who ‘owns’ the law? DNA can be two-faced Click for SINGLE COLUMN (read on screen) Click for 2-COLUMN (print, read over a break)Read full article
WEBSITE AIMS TO REGAIN PHOTOS FROM ‘FACEVAULT’23 December 2019
Tasmanians have lost the right to their own images: their driver licence photos been handed over willy-nilly by the state government to the federal security apparatus…in advance of proposed new national laws being passed to make the spooky ‘facevault' legal. CLA Director Richard Griggs has empowered people to protest through a new website www.deletemyphoto.netRead full article
REFORMING AUSTRALIAN PRISONS IN THE ‘SECOND CONVICT AGE’9 December 2019
CLA campaigns for the rights of prisoners…and for saving taxpayers’ money. We call our approach ‘smart on crime, rather than the ‘tough on crime’ mantra. That’s the false propaganda microphoned out by politicians and news media before elections. Their way lies bigger prisons, more prisoners, fewer people rehabilitated and much greater cost to the purses and wallet of citizens, which achieves no improvement or benefit – at a time when crime is falling. This article is about CLA’s approach, and a prisoner's right to vote, to actively pursue a better education and to gain some marketable skills through reading while locked away. CLA Vice-President Rajan Venkataraman reports.Read full article
DEC 2019 CLARION NEWSLETTER: ASIO SPINS AND LEAKS AS AUSTRALIA IS CONFIRMED AS TURNING INTO A POLICE-SECURITY STATE1 December 2019
Supposed ’secret’ agents pick up a megaphone to leak news which suits their world view, then dumb politicians jump on to the bandwagon created from gossamer ‘facts’. Welcome to the new police-security state that Australia is becoming. We’re losing liberties and freedoms because Ministers and Parliament no longer safeguard people's human rights. Instead, doyens of the nation’s academia and law say, they legislate ‘poorly and over-broadly’ – besotted by terrorism – when a much greater danger is domestic violence, for example. A Bill of Rights is just one fundamental needed to restore balance inour society.
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OUR IMAGES FLY INTERSTATE AFTER SECRETIVE, PRIVATE DEBATE25 November 2019
The state government’s secretive sending of our driver licence photos to a mysterious national ID database has come as a rude shock to Tasmanians. What other unrevealed changes has the government imposed on our traditional liberties, rights and freedoms? 'Full transparency was promised', but where is it? Richard Griggs asks.Read full article
LEGAL EXPERTS EXPLAIN HOW SUE NEILL-FRASER TRIAL WAS CORRUPTED23 November 2019
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legal academics, Dr Bob Moles and Associate Professor Bibi Sangha, have critically examined the Sue Neill-Fraser conviction in Tasmania in 2010, producing a detailed analysis of factual, interpretational and inferential errors involving witnesses, the prosecution and decisions of the judge. They conclude that Neill-Fraser, now in what they believe is her 10th year of wrongful imprisonment, should be released immediately…as occurred in Victoria when a major error was identified in a trial. Victoria was able to acquit an innocent man who had been wrongfully committed one working day after error was acknowledged by the prosecution. So should it be in Tasmania, they say. Note: Bob Moles Home page on the Sue Neill-Fraser case is here: http://netk.net.au/EtterHome.aspRead full article
PRISON MINISTER KEPT IN DARK OVER SECRET PRISONER’S 18-MONTH JAILING21 November 2019
So secret was the trial and jailing of the ACT’s mystery prisoner that even the territory’s Minister for Corrections, who is also Minister for Justice, did not know about the case until the story broke in the media. Minister Shane Rattenbury still does not know on what grounds he locked up a prisoner for 18 months: he doesn’t know what the prisoner was charged with, or what the prisoner was convicted of. CLA poses some questions to Commonwealth authorities, includingSupreme Courts.
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CLA LEADS OPPOSITION TO DRACONIAN ANTI-PROTEST LAWS21 November 2019
The Tasmanian government is having another crack at introducing Australia’s worst – and most expensive, for citizens – anti-protest laws. The High Court threw out their first attempt. Now an ‘openly deceptive’ government is trying to sneak in laws which would instantly turn minor peaceful protest almost anywhere in Tasmania into a major crime. You can sign the e-petition.Read full article
TAS GOVT BREACHES ELECTION PROMISE, INTRODUCES ‘SILENCE’ BILL17 November 2019
The Tasmanian government is again reneging on a promise, this time over a proposed new protest law, introducing massive penalties to restrict genuine protest by concerned citizens along with draconian provisions for police to enforce. Indpendents in Parliament must reject this ‘outrageous law’, CLA’s Tasmanian Director RichardGriggs says.
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POLICE INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS: LIKE BANKERS PROBING BANKERS11 November 2019
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time to end the unfair practice of the same police force investigating shooting deaths, alleged stun gun abuse, police car chase fatal accidents and major complaints about police behaviour. CLA believes citizens will never get justice from police ”internal” affairs probes until the “internal” bit is replaced by independent investigators and other representing a civil liberties and human rights viewpoint. The time to change is now.Read full article
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