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Archive for July, 2007

My iPhone prediction

Are you sick of reading love sonnets to the efing iPhone?…me too so I’ll get this out of the way.

I’ve given it deep thought and predict that the iPhone will be available in Australia in time for Xmas, it will be a 3G model rather than GSM and therefore will be exclusive to the Telstra […]

Home Security

Hobart-based barrister Greg Barns, who is representing terror suspects in the Supreme Court of Victoria, said Australian anti-terror laws had allowed Dr Haneef’s case to become a farce.

“While we can point the finger at politicians, the police and lawyers in the Haneef debacle, we need to focus on the fact that the anti-terror laws themselves […]

One more rabbit?

Australians deserve much better from their criminal justice system.
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It is alarming and unacceptable that the media and public opinion, not the DPP or the Police Commissioner, have accelerated the administration of justice in this case.
Hedley Thomas - The Australian

Not to mention the outrageous and worrying interference of the Federal Government in the form of Philip […]

Lets start recklessly supporting the truth…

When an agency is keen to see someone detained, its staff may be inclined to emphasise isolated statements from a transcript that would promote their desired outcome, rather than supply a wider context that might support a more benign interpretation.

This problem is compounded when statements are paraphrased rather than quoted verbatim. It is incumbent on […]

What you do if the judiciary won’t do what you want…

If you were suffering any delusions that Australia still respects the concepts of human rights,

Power and the Passion

Alan Ramsey — Noel Pearson

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