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21 Feb 2006, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] The Australian judicial inquiry [Cole Commission website] looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) [corporate website] provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime [JURIST report] as part of the now-defunct UN oil-for-food program [JURIST news archive] has expanded its scope and will also try to learn what [read post]
10 May 2006, 6:35 am
[JURIST] The Australian and US governments will both have to approve the transfer of prisoners sentenced by US military commissions under the terms of a new agreement reached earlier this week, according to a statement from Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. [read post]
12 May 2008, 5:45 am
[JURIST] An internal military probe Monday cleared members of the Australian Defence Force [official website] of allegations that they mistreated four Taliban members detained following the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan last November. [read post]
5 Oct 2006, 12:11 am
[JURIST] Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock [official website] said Thursday that the Australian government plans to appeal [press release] a court decision giving Aborigines native title [NNTT backgrounder] to land in the city of Perth, saying the ruling could prevent non-indigenous people from having access to public parks and beaches in the area. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 10:02 am
[JURIST] The Australian Senate [official website] on Monday approved [Senate Daily Summary, PDF] legislation that would allow same-sex couples to enjoy most of the same rights as heterosexual couples, but would not give same-sex couples the right to marry. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 5:40 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] said Monday that the Australian government will do more to pressure the US to expedite the trial of David Hicks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 May 2006, 2:33 pm
[JURIST] The US detention center in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] is a legal black hole, an Australian High Court [official website] judge has said. [read post]
17 Mar 2003, 9:53 pm
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced that Australian troops will join a US-led war against Iraq. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 2:44 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official website] agreed Wednesday to hold a conscience vote on a stem cell research bill allowing therapeutic cloning if a private bill is offered to parliament. [read post]
28 Aug 2006, 1:56 pm
[JURIST] An Australian court on Monday ordered terror suspect Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas [advocacy website] to stay within the city of Melbourne and imposed an evening curfew in the first use of controversial "control orders" authorized under anti-terror legislation [ANS backgrounder] enacted late last year. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 7:19 am
[JURIST] The US military commission [JURIST news archive] expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock [official website] told ABC News on Tuesday. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 1:07 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for the Australian government argued that control orders do not violate the country's constitution during a Tuesday court hearing in the case of an Australian man convicted [JURIST report] in February 2006 of receiving money from an al Qaeda associate. [read post]
21 Oct 2005, 3:47 am
[JURIST] Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope [official website] has said the federal government is excluding him from consulting on the next draft of anti-terrorism proposals after Stanhope leaked a draft of the bill [JURIST report; PDF text] last week. [read post]
23 Aug 2006, 11:23 am
[JURIST] Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a 36-year-old Pakistan-born Australian immigrant, on Wednesday was sentenced [judgment text] to 20 years in prison with a minimum of 15 years served for his plan to wage a "holy war" by detonating homemade bombs around Sydney. [read post]
24 Jul 2006, 1:20 pm
[JURIST] The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) [official website] must tighten its anti-terrorism laws to conform with those of other states and territories, Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] said Monday. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 12:24 am
[JURIST] The government of the Australian Capital Territory [official website] on Tuesday introduced revised legislation [press release] that would grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships but would stop short of authorizing same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
31 Jan 2006, 10:44 am
[JURIST] Australian anti-terror laws force courts to close off too much information to the public and prevent fair trials, a group of media organizations argued Tuesday before the New South Wales Supreme Court [official website] in the first constitutional challenge to the federal government's anti-terrorism laws. [read post]
7 Jun 2006, 3:07 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] and his Cabinet have announced [AG press release] that the federal government will set aside legislation allowing same-sex civil unions in the Australian Capital Territory [official website], the federal district that includes Canberra. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 9:42 am
[JURIST] An Australian judge issued an interim control order Friday, placing restrictions on former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] when he is released from an Australian prison on December 29. [read post]
12 Apr 2006, 5:09 am
[JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision [text; JURIST report] holding that Australian terror suspect David Hicks [JURIST news archive] should be granted British citizenship, dismissing an appeal [JURIST report] from Britain's Home Office [official website]. [read post]
