Hysteria of 2005 terrorism laws, were ‘worst abuses of the Howard governments control of both houses of parliament’ |
First 2 of 8 paragraphs shown Terrible precedents and terrible things were put on Australian statute book in 2005, when the “Senate was used as a sausage factory to ram this (anti-terrorism) legislation through with consequences that we are still exploring, even to this day”, Senator Ludlam, Greens (Western Australia) said Tuesday, 2 February 2010 in the Senate. Hysteria, not debate: Ludlam said the main tranche of anti-terrorism legislation was passed through the Senate at the end of 2005....it was not really a debate; it was a guillotine undertaken in a hothouse environment where to speak out against the way that these laws might operate in practice was to be considered pro-terrorist. That, in fact, was one of the worst abuses, to my mind and my recollection, of the Howard governments control of both houses of parliament. ...Log in to read rest of Article or image. |