Pressure is mounting on the federal government to announce a national review leading to introducing a Human Rights Act (HRA) for Australia. A HRA is a priority issue once a National Integrity Commission law is before parliament: a full review is promised in the Labor Party platform. Meanwhile, the Justice committee of the ACT Legislative Assembly is urging improvements to the ACT Human Rights ACT – possibly as a model for a national Act – to ensure that in future there are ‘No Rights Without Remedies’. Also in the JULY 2022 CLArion:
- Attorney-General’s Department newly responsible for the federal police
- $6m waster in wrongful prosecutions: end Collaery, McBridge, Boyle fiascos
- The Force searches your IT devices ‘on suspicion’
- 2001-inspired terror laws are past their use-by date
- When will the territories get their democratic rights back?
- State’s ‘justice’ fails children as young as 10
- Justice systems are not fit for purpose
- State laboratory gives wrong forensic results/advice: biologist
- Beware unintended consequences of tracing family DNA
- Forensic ‘certainty’ starts to face a reality backlash