Change is in the air this new year: a new governor-general – will he be the last? A federal election – will new MPs realise Australians want much more listening and far less shouting by their national representatives? Will the completed Banking Royal Commission and the beginning Aged Care RC fulfil our hopes for improved personal treatment by big business of average Aussies? And can we improve the legal and penal system to deliver quality and timely ‘justice’ at reduced cost with far less angst all round?
Also in this issue:
- 10 years wrongly jailed: gathering outside parliament
- High Court judge urges more Crown appeals against sentences
- Australians losing faith in democracy
- ‘Five Eyes’ become arbiters of national policy, manipulators of commerce
- Suppressed! Your right to know
- Protest rights need better protection
- CCC calls for inquiry into ‘justice’ system
- Police want to predict criminal intentions
- Sentenced aged 16, ineligible for parole until aged 67