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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 England daily prayers call free on: 0800 8048044. Austwick Parish News: The new edition can be found on ...

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 pandemic's 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 Richardson's unclassified recommendations. "The central area for reform is a new electronic surveillance Act, which will be a new landmark in Australia's national intelligence legislation," the ...

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 refused. He also defended another Liberal backbencher, Craig Kelly, who has undermined the government...

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 new warrants designed to help Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Criminal Intelligence ...