Shame on football club management and sponsors of the AFL who frequently ignore totally the presumption of innocence. A most popular athlete was charged and, before he even went to court, he was sacked.
How come Ben Cousins is sacked before a court of l…
It is annual report time and the Commonwealth Ombudsman declares that the vast marjority of complaints against the AFP are unsubstantiated.
What a joke.
The citizens should know that the Ombudsman’s office does not actually investigate those complain…
Police Minister Corbell is yet again trying to ‘spin’ the poor performance of ACT Policing and the level of complaints made against it last financial year (Ombudsman reports 17pc rise in police complaints -Canberra Times 26 Sep).
He attributes the 17…
The overall diminishing of Australian society and the inevitable decline in public fairness and people’s freedoms is a consequence of the false premise that the market is always correct.
This is the mantra of government, particularly at federal level…
Mr Howard’s anti-terrorism laws are wrong and their application by our public protectors, the police and security services, during APEC alarmed far more Australians than Osama bin Laden and his minions ever will.
M.H MacKenzie-Orr, Hughes (Canberra Time…
Are Scipione’s boys above the law or has the police state arrived? There are requirements for officers to wear their ID, but for APEC, what the heck.
The question is who ordered the IDs to be taken off as they are the officers responsible for such a b…
When I was a kid, we used to live in a democracy, a place where you could walk and talk without fear or favour, without being afraid of having every word recorded for potential use against you.
Sometimes you could even disagree with politicians, and t…
How Osama bin Laden and his ever-growing band of hirsute terrorists must be chuckling at the total shambles the APEC meeting is creating for great numbers of very cross residents. Al-Qaeda only needs to produce a little internet noise and Bush et al go i…
How Osama bin Laden and his ever-growing band of hirsute terrorists must be chuckling at the total shambles the APEC meeting is creating for great numbers of very cross residents. Al-Qaeda only needs to produce a little internet noise and Bush et al go i…
Has the Government’s offshore detention centres and tough stance on refugees deterred unscrupulous people-smugglers?
I do not think so. Now they can bring people to Australia legally under the 457 visa scheme. Unfortunately, many of these hapless souls…