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13 Mar 2007, 12:14 pm
[JURIST] High-ranking officials in the Australian government pressured the US government to reduce terror charges against Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archives], according to a report in The Australian on Tuesday. [read post]
14 Aug 2006, 3:16 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official website] on Monday abandoned the proposed Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill [PDF text] that would have required asylum seekers arriving by boat to be processed at offshore camps after it became apparent that the Senate would not approve the bill [JURIST report]. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 12:22 pm
[JURIST] The Australian Federal Police (AFP) [official website] plan to subject former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks [JURIST news archive] to a control order [JURIST news archive] that would restrict his movements and communications as well as require him to check in with police once every year, according to Monday reports. [read post]
23 Dec 2008, 1:30 am
[JURIST] Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland [official website] said Tuesday that the government will reform anti-terrorism legislation [press release] in accordance with the recommendations [text] of a report [text, PDF] into the case of Dr. [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 6:23 am
[JURIST] The Australian Senate [official website] on Thursday voted to remove the need for the health minister's approval for importing and prescribing the abortion pill RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone) [Wikipedia backgrounder]. [read post]
26 Jul 2006, 1:32 pm
[JURIST] Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock [official website] Wednesday called on Australian states to ban books inciting terrorism in the wake of a recent Australian Classification Review Board (CRB) [official website] decision to ban two Islamic books that allegedly incited terror while allowing five others to circulate. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 4:48 am
[JURIST] Australian Minister of Justice Chris Ellison [official website] Friday offered the Australian government's strongest criticism yet of the US government's 5-year detention without charge of Australian citizen David Hicks [JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], calling it "totally inappropriate" and urging that a trial be held quickly. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 7:41 am
[JURIST] The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) [official website] is amending a civil unions law [legislative materials] that was overturned by the federal government earlier this year [JURIST report], ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell [official profile] said Friday. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 3:27 am
[JURIST] Australian authorities on Sunday removed the final restrictions against former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 9:21 am
[JURIST] Former Australian High Court [official website] chief justice Sir Gerard Brennan [profile] Wednesday denounced anti-terrorism laws [text] being used to detain an Indian doctor [press release] believed to be connected to last week's attempted terror attacks [JURIST report] in London and Glasgow. [read post]
10 Apr 2010, 8:21 am
[JURIST] Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans [official website] announced Friday that that his country will temporarily suspend [press release] processing all asylum claims from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 5:02 am
[JURIST] Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock [official website] Friday denied contentions by lawyers representing Australian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] that comments [JURIST report] made by the head of the US military prison indicated he would not get a fair trial. [read post]
18 Jul 2005, 2:36 am
[JURIST] After US courts approved military trials [JURIST report] for terrorism suspects, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock [official website] said his government now wished for a speedy trial for David Hicks [Wikipedia profile, advocacy website], an Australian who was captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban and is now being held at Guantanamo. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 2:24 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] Friday rejected calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the Australian government's handling of the terror case against Dr. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 7:11 am
American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond by Michael Otterman is reviewed by Dennis Altman in the Melbourne Age. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 4:21 am
[JURIST] A Chinese court on Monday convicted four employees of Australian mining company Rio Tinto [corporate website] of receiving bribes and stealing commercial secretes. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 4:53 pm
[JURIST] The Australian Federal Police (AFP) [official website] announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions [control order, PDF] on former Australian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
14 Oct 2006, 7:22 am
[JURIST] Members of the Australian Lawyers Alliance [official website] have voted unanimously to condemn the Australian government's handling of the case of Australian national David Hicks [JURIST news archive], held by American authorities at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] after being captured in Afghanistan [JURIST news archive] in 2001. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 6:31 am
[JURIST] Australian Aborigine groups said Friday they are preparing lawsuits in response to an offical apology [text; AFP report] delivered Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd [official profile] in an address to Parliament, publicly accepting responsibility for the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people under the "laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments. [read post]
17 Dec 2006, 11:43 pm
As I anticipated on Friday, and noted earlier today: the Full Federal Court judgment in the Cooper case has been handed down. [read post]
