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• Detention at ministerial pleasure

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:33 am

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  that the charge as laid had flaws in it and therefore has been withdrawn. “As I understand from what Mr Keelty said this afternoon … that the police investigation is a matter which is ongoing.” Investigation into what precisely minister? Didn’t the time allowed for detention in connection with an investigation expire on

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• Beneath contempt

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:28 am

  Tags: Terrorism Laws, Howard Govt

  Charges against Haneef dropped: DPP These two men have brought shame to Australia and hurt our international reputation. They are a disgrace to the parliament and to their profession. If they had a shred of decency left they would announce their resignations immediately. UPDATE: The Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews will grant Dr Mohamed Haneef

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• Dr Haneef: (probably not) a final word

  Published: July 29, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  of changing the anti-terrorism' laws that allowed the farce to develop the way it did. The laws are bad and they need to be repealed. Any student of history understands why the common law principles protecting citizens against the state are so important. The way in which politicians from both major parties have been stampeded into

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• I was wrong (again)

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:52 am

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  would introduce stronger' laws on terrorism. The logic appeared unanswerable; it would be argued that the Haneef exercise had revealed real or imagined deficiencies in the existing laws, which would be used to justify new stronger laws, thus maintaining the relentless efforts to wedge Labor. I suggested that the new stronger laws and BTW

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• Spare a thought for conflicted libertarians

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:51 am

  Tags: Values, Terrorism Laws

  You've gotta feel sorry for libertarians. On the one hand, they're all for the freedom of the individual to do whatever s/he wants with their own property, they believe in free markets, they oppose government attempts to regulate or otherwise interfere in market outcomes and so on. Margaret Thatcher was their heroine, and they naturally support

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• Gilbert & Sullivan does the GWOT

  Published: August 22, 2007, 7:44 pm

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  Plenty of other people are posting about the transcript of the second police interview of Haneef Mahomed and there’s no point being an echo. Tim for example’s got a thread here. The thing that strikes home, reading the transcript, is how ill-informed the interviewing police officers were. I mean they’d had two weeks to

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• Don’t mess with Miranda

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:58 pm

  Tags: Terrorism Laws, Media

  How about that Miranda Devine, eh. What an adornment to Australian journalism. Miranda enthusaistically whoops and hollers from the sidelines when the AFP destroys Dr Haneef Mahomed’s life. Hey, what’s it matter if he did anything, he should’ve known better than to have dodgy second cousins. His little bit of inconvenience is

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• Yes you can go to gaol for what you’re thinking

  Published: February 13, 2008, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  concerned about the new laws passed during the Howard years in the name of fighting the dreadful wave of terrorist atrocities that has made living in Australia such a constant nightmare. The latest prosecution only confirms those concerns. Twelve people are being prosecuted for the offence of, well, looking like they might be up to

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• Hostages and enemy combatants

  Published: July 5, 2008, 2:55 am

  Tags: Terrorism Laws

  Many people are rejoicing at the freeing of 15 people who had been help captive by guerillas in Colombia for more than six years. Understandably so; the misery and suffering they endured must have been appalling. The official story about the circumstances of their release might have been called into question, but that is irrelevant to the pleasure

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