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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 refused. He also defended another Liberal backbencher, Craig Kelly, who has undermined the government’s health message by spreading false information about COVID-19. At the time, Morrison said: “There’s such a thing as freedom of speech in this country and that will continue.”
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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 new warrants designed to help Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) investigators to investigate and disrupt malicious online cybercriminal campaigns.
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How a youth offender phenomenon captured Melbourne and didn t let go
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Solomone was a regular at the Galuega house and friends with all six of Vaifoa s children.
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A light breeze blew through the final moments of an overcast afternoon as Vaifoa Galuega watched her son s best friend collapse.
Warning: this story contains graphic content that some readers may find upsetting.
Solomone Taufeulungaki, a six-foot-tall rugby player described by his teachers as a protective teddy bear , landed in the arms of his best friend Keidis, blood seeping into his school shirt from multiple stab wounds, outside Brimbank Shopping Centre on Tuesday, June 16.
Benbrika gets more time as judge calls change of heart a fabrication
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Convicted terror plotter Abdul Nacer Benbrika will remain in prison for three more years, despite having served his 15-year jail term for planning to bomb Crown casino and the MCG.
Benbrika was due to be released from Barwon Prison last month but the federal government sought to have him remain behind bars because they believed he continued to pose an unacceptable risk to the community.
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Release Biloela family from immigration detention
The AMA today called on the Australian Government to release two Sri Lankan children and their parents from immigration detention on Christmas Island until their legal case has been finalised.
Almost 700 paediatricians and healthcare workers have signed a petition expressing grave concerns about the negative impact that detention is having on the development of five-year-old Kopika Murugappan and her three-year-old sister Tharunicaa.
The Australian-born sisters and their Tamil asylum seeker parents, Nades and Priya, have been in immigration detention for more than 1000 days while their cases remain in the court system.
“The AMA shares the concerns of these eminent paediatricians and other healthcare workers about the harms being caused to these two young children by being in detention for so long and at such a crucial time in their development,” AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid said today.