Australia's Howard years hysteria - terrorism laws ‘extreme and offensive to the rule of law’ |
First 5 of 5 paragraphs shown Senator Ludlam, Greens, Western Australia, said “Some of these laws are so extreme and so redundant or otherwise inappropriate or offensive to the rule of law in this country that they should simply be repealed and not even be subjected to the dignity of a review”. Speaking Tuesday, 2 February 2010 in the Senate: “We have national security and intelligence agencies here working full time with these terrorism laws, with huge staffs and massive escalating budgets, and we have nobody in this case on the government payroll working in an independent capacity to: - assess whether these laws are necessary, whether they are proportionate; or - whether they are actually making any difference whatsoever, within the boundaries of the fact that there is a very broad suite of legislation that has many different effects and ramifications. ...Log in to read rest of Article or image. |