Hage-Ali sues NSW Government

Iktimal Hage-Ali is suing the State Government for unlawful arrest and wrongful detention. Daily Telegraph

Labor senator blows whistle on Rudd’s cuts

Labor Senator Steve Hutchins today blew the whistle on the damage Kevin Rudd has done to the fight against organized crime, by exposing savage cuts to the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), Australia’s elite organized crime policing agency. More

Would you get into his taxi?

THE decision by a tribunal to allow a man once judged an insane killer to get behind the wheel of a taxi must surely concern his future passengers. Herald Sun Editorial

Get set for Kirby unplugged

When a judge becomes so frustrated at his failed attempts at judicial activism that he starts attacking the High Court for daring to overturn the decisions of a lower court, he has lost the judicial plot. Janet Albrechtsen

Race offence against truth

CHRISTINE Nixon has proved we still can’t hold a frank and honest debate on immigration. Andrew Bolt

Policing in Victoria is a disaster

VICTORIA is now searching for a new police Chief Commissioner to replace Christine Nixon who retires next March. Thank goodness. Peter Faris

Labor slashes Federal Police numbers

Fri, 7th November 2008
Senator the Hon George Brandis SC
Shadow Attorney-General
Jason Wood MP
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security
Joint Release

Shadow Attorney General, George Brandis and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security, Jason Wood have called on the Rudd Government to explain its decision to cut up to 150 members from the Australian Federal Police (AFP). More

Rudd soft on serious crime

Thu, 6th November 2008
Jason Wood MP
Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security

Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Public Security, Jason Wood, has today called for the Rudd Government to toughen up on serious crime. More

Going soft on crime breeds more crime

Sending serious juvenile offenders to jail just helps seasoned crims school the pampered snot-gobblers in the finer points of criminality.

And allowing publication of their names will shame and embarrass them, leading to alienation from society and a lapse back into offending.

Well, new figures out today show up those arguments as the namby-pamby balderdash they are. More

Little media interest in teen crime surge

The surge in teenage crime recorded in the latest Victorian Children’s Court annual report (see story above) didn’t generate a lot of media interest. More

Labor’s High Court stack not on - Libs

Shadow Attorney-General George Brandis said the Opposition would oppose any move by the Rudd Government to expand the High Court from seven Justices to nine.

Senator Brandis called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to put an immediate end to rumours that he said have been circulating in the legal profession. More

Art mag’s cover shows naked girl, 6

The Sunday Telegraph reports that an art magazine that receives funding from the NSW and federal governments has run a “provocative” cover shot of a naked six-year-old girl, purportedly as a protest at the recent treatment of photographer Bill Henson. More

Sheik says polygamy on the rise

The Melbourne Age reports that the leader of Melbourne’s Somali community has backed calls from other Muslims for polygamy to be legalised. The newspaper also says an Islamic women’s organisation claims the practice is on the rise in Victoria. More