We don’t arrest them; we release them, only to offend again.
We don’t move them to safety; we return them to the scene of their abuse, and those violated are violated again, before becoming violators themselves, unpunished.
And those abused learn to…
For some Australians, the national day has a dark side. Spare a thought for what Indigenous Australians might be thinking on 26 January.
An alphabetical guide to Australian history on Australia Day 2008
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Hugh Selby appears to lay the blame for the present mysterious system of Supreme Court appointments at the feet of those who have been appointed (“Let’s put our new judges and magistrates on trial”, January 1, p11), whereas Alan Towill (Letters, January…
In the year 2007, the call for a Fair Go was a key determinant in the downfall of the Howard government as issues such as industrial relations, the war in Iraq, the plight of refugees, the incarceration of David Hicks and the confinement of Mohamed Han…
Why, Joe Woodward (Letters Canberra Times, December 29) do you think civil libertarians are encouraging of or apologists for Islamic terrorists?
Woodward says that “the left in Western culture has no answer to the issue of radical Islam” but it is cl…
The comments made by Jennifer Saunders about police makes my skin crawl. It is said that Libertarians are not anti police- What rubbish. Maybe police should start treating protesters like they do in Pakistan or Russia. I have witnessed many protests firs…
Nothing about the USA’s treatment of David Hicks – rendition, locking up, charging with a non-crime, plea bargaining to meet an Australian election deadline, or silencing from comment – showed American ‘justice’ in a favorable light. Hicks spent six year…
Coroner Karen Fryar’s finding in the Clea Rose inquiry is extremely disappointing. As the parents point out, public safety and human life should be paramount in police decisions about whether or not to pursue suspect vehicles.
This police purs…
The erosion of freedom of speech reported in an audit by former NSW ombudsman Irene Moss issued yesterday (“Damning report cites erosion of free speech”, November 6, p5) is a situation which should worry all citizens.
It is pertinent that the audit was…
Virginia Hausseger’s summary of what happens in a rape trial was accurate except when she says that the victim will be questioned about her sexual history and number of partners and that the jurors will therefore draw from that a view about her morality.…