The first glimmers of light have emerged for and end to draconian anti-terror laws, and a concerted community push to ensure freedom of the press. A parliamentary committee has sent a bill back for re-drafting. Rallies throughout Australia, backed by civil liberties, human rights and lawyer groups, are highlighting how perverse is the government’s continuing persecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery. And at last a long-quiescent media has woken up to its responsibilities to safeguard all of our freedoms, including freedom of the press. We suddenly live in greater hope.
- Collaery calls for whistleblower protection body
- Urgent move to fix growing forensic disasters in courts
- Much forensic science is bunkum, US reports say
- FOI stands for Failure Of Integrity in Home Affairs
- Uncultured government robs arts to pay spooks
- Territorians live in a dictatorship
- King aborts reporter’s one-year jail sentence
- Chinese sensitivity sees a number of people in the poo
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