With McBride and Boyle Fried, Dreyfus Commits to Whistleblower Protections
Federal attorney general Mark Dreyfus delivered the keynote speech at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, in which he promised to introduce a bill to “make priority amendments” to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, by the...
Criminal Defence Lawyers to Get Better Protections Against Harassment, Intimidation and Reprisals
New laws have been introduced to New South Wales Parliament which will give defence lawyers similar protections to those that prosecutors, magistrates, judges, complainants, witnesses and jurors already have in our state. Introduced to parliament on 19 October 2022, the Crimes...
“Be Prepared for Ruin When Blowing the Whistle”: Independent Calls for Real Protections
Despite decades of calls for greater whistleblower protections and faux moves by Canberra to provide them, the fire at the base of the stake that those who expose institutional corruption are tied to is only growing stronger. The political prosecution...
Australia’s Mounting Mass Surveillance Regime Must Be Reined In
“A creeping surveillance state”, “the world’s most secretive democracy”, “civil liberties in peril”: these types of phrases are increasingly being used to describe our nation in US headlines. The examples listed have all appeared whilst the Coalition government has been in power,...
Australia Fails on OPCAT Implementation to Detriment of Those Inside
The nation of Australia has a stark prison problem. As Britain began its takeover, the premise was a penal colony on an empty island at the other end of the Earth, and whilst the pillaging of land and resources from the...
NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit
The NZ government launched its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan on 9 December. A decade in the making, the policy proposes to see less than 5 percent of the population smoking in four years’ time, within a country that sees a...
National Security Law Permitting the Secret Trial of Witness J Is Under Scrutiny
There has been a sustained national debate about whistleblower prosecutions over the last few years, with a chief concern being the national security laws that permit the trials of Witness K, Bernard Collaery and David McBride to be shrouded in...
Section 223 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act | Costs
Part 11, subdivision 2 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 sets out the rules relating to hearings by the disciplinary board, including the Board’s power to summon witnesses and take evidence, the way in which hearings proceed,...
Section 222 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act | Hearings taken to be judicial proceedings
Part 11, subdivision 2 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 sets out the rules relating to hearings by the disciplinary board, including the Board’s power to summon witnesses and take evidence, the way in which hearings proceed,...
Section 221 Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act | Protection of members etc.
Part 11, subdivision 2 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 sets out the rules relating to hearings by the disciplinary board, including the Board’s power to summon witnesses and take evidence, the way in which hearings proceed,...