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Staples on a Civil Liberties Bill for Australia (modelled on Europe)

9 May 2006 9 May 2006

Mr Staples proposes a simple way for Australia to adopt a working Bill of Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights, he says, has worked with general satisfaction there for 50 years, and there is a considerable body of case law in Europe showing in…

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Staples on Free Speech law…and sedition

9 May 2006 9 May 2006

James Staples is a former barrister and federal judge with a long professional experience in public law. He proposes a new draft law to be put to the Parliaments of the States and the Commonwealth, directed to secure in their respective jurisdictions fre…

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Environmental refugees out in the cold?

3 February 2006 3 February 2006

The pioneering paper under the ANU/CLA program was produced in 2006 by Brooke Horne, now with Minter Ellison. Horne’s paper investigated the status of environmental refugees, such as Pacific Island people affected by rising sea levels, under internationa…

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FYI: Hicks protest at opening of Parliament

1 February 2006 1 February 2006

See the flyer in support of Tuesday’s 6 Feb 2007 Convergence at the Lawns, Parliament House, Canberra at 11am.
Organised by: Marlene Obeid on 0401 758 871 of the Sydney-based Justice for Hicks & Habib, and Bring David Home campaigns.

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New Hicks rules defy US Supreme Court

26 January 2006 26 January 2006

Procedure and evidence rules in the latest Guantanamo Bay Military Commission manual ignores the US Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling and try to re-define war crimes, says US/Australian lawyer Robert Briggs. The case against Hicks could swing on ‘evidence’ of…

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