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The Australian Bar Association has joined the Law Council in supporting reports that the government has sought independent advice on the Federal Judicial Commission.

AUSTWICK Church news: There will be no church services until further notice. Please join our online Services each Sunday at 10.30am on Zoom by clicking: bit.ly/Church-online. This weekly newsletter is available for you to read and join in worship in your own time. Copies can be found in church porches or online at bit.ly/churches-weekly-newsletter. Clapham, Austwick and Eldroth churches continue to be open for individual prayer on Sundays and Wednesdays during daylight hours. For Church of Engl...

Richardson made dozens of recommendations for how such a new Act should work, and 203 recommendations in total. It took an entire year for the government to respond, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemics impact on business, but eventually, in its formal response of December 2020, it agreed that such a reform was needed. Indeed, the government agreed, or agreed in principle, to the vast majority of Richardsons unclassified recommendations. "The central area for reform is a new electronic surv...

Advertisement Coalition politicians who champion Donald Trump’s right to free speech have passed numerous laws making it a serious criminal offence to exercise this right in Australia. Labor parliamentarians have also helped pass laws criminalising speech that’s clearly in the public interest or simply innocuous. When Prime Minister Scott Morrison was invited at a recent press conference to condemn far-right conspiracy theories promoted by government members such as George Christensen, he r...

Onfokus / Getty Images Australian privacy, legal, and digital rights organisations have just weeks to comment on proposed federal legislation that would, among other things, let federal investigators take over suspects’ social media accounts as part of investigations into cybercriminal activity on the dark web. Introduced last month by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, the proposed Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 (I&D Bill) introduces three...

The Law Council of Australia (LCA) has backed the government’s acceptance of recommendations made by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security following its inquiry into press freedom.

Divorce courts clogged with year-long backlog of cases With 100,000 cases clogging Australia’s divorce courts in the past year, some court hearings have already been pushed back to 2022. News by Natasha Bita Premium Content Subscriber only Divorce courts are clogged with a year-long backlog of cases, as highly-paid judges enjoy up to 10 weeks holidays while postponing court hearings until 2022. Divorce disputes are heard in two courts - the Family C...

Media Watch, Gadfly thought Emeritus Professor David Flint must have disappeared from the mortal coil. But there he was looking as splendid as a pox doctor’s apprentice on Sky “News” telling that other old stager Alan (The Parrot) Jones that Joe Biden’s election victory was a fraud, a “self-evident” fraud. In response to Trump’s claims of victory, Flint “can’t understand why journalists are throwing around the word ‘unssubsstantiated’ ”. He must have forgotten that...

In direct contradiction to a recommendation of a national intelligence review, the government is giving the AFP sweeping new spying powers to combat cybercrime.

Radical Fix For Australia’s ‘Broken’ Family Court System Met With Resistance Legal bodies and the federal opposition are vehemently opposing a “radical” move to merge the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Court. One expert however says the merger is a step in the right direction and will provide “considerable benefits” to families navigating the system. The Family Court of Australia has been the subject to four parliamentary inquiries over the past two decades seeking to...