The Attorney-General’s department, supposed upholder of civil liberties and the rule of law, “is the single greatest threat to the basic rights of Australians,” says Bernard Keane. Rather than being mentor to and monitor of its portfolio agencies, the department is cheerleader to the excesses of some of them, like the Australian Crime Commission, in CLA’s experience.
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