The spookmeisters have emerged from deep hiding to defend their over-the-top raids on the homes of journalists and the national HQ of the ABC. They’ve trotted out ghosts and hobgoblins in yet another fear-raising exercise to suit their secret aims. An MP has described Australia as a ‘pre-police state’…but we are very quickly moving past the ‘pre’ stage as recent events demonstrate.
- Your ideas wanted for new Nationhood, ID and Democracy inquiry
- Home Affairs ready to lock up a leaker, no trial needed
- Witness K and Collaery: the government should be ashamed
- Audits hold out hope for some accountability
- Police rules say they should film naked people
- VALE: Death of a liberties legend: Brian Tennant
- Blights on a nation: Sexism, racism, gunism
- 71% of Americans don’t like Arabic numerals
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