The Voice campaign for a special Indigenous path to parliamentary debate launched in February. The first official call for a federal Human Rights Act is expected when the Australian Human Rights Commission tables its ‘Free & Equal’ report, four years in the making, in the first week of this month. Meanwhile liberties and rights, particularly of children, are under increasing threat from a combination of vigilante social media activist campaigns and state governments and oppositions ramping up ‘order and law’ issues ahead of elections.
- Robodebt revelations expose a Public Service more focused on politics than people
- Ghosts and hobgoblins however in wings as ‘Caspar’ Burgess performs on stage
- Govt wastes money prosecuting the wrong people
- Foreign police to ‘infiltrate’ Australia: will overseas cops have to drop their standards
- Children to be further victimised by govt bracelet tracking regime
- Autocratic rule supplanting democracy as time in ‘absolute’ power exends
- Aboriginal people in jail rise to near record percentage of inmates
- The honey trap: spooks in Oz suffer an exaggeration multiplication: letter
- Another country gets new criminal case review commission…but not Australia
- Man freed after 28 years wrongly jailed: Failure To Disclose again the problem
- Child gun deaths up, police kill more people – guess which country?