Editor, The West Australian: Re your report ‘The moment a mother unloads 25 years of anger”‘, TWA 7 Oct 2010 p9.I was shocked to witness members of the electronic media chasing a 65-year-old accused of sexual misbehaviour of young boys in his care be…
Dear Sir: Police & Tasers: why not for once back our police force? If idiots wish to charge police with knives they should be stopped with Taser or gun. Hope you never need the police to help you. RegardsŠSydney.Dear Sir: I have just observed you…
Australia will eventually secure its own national bill of rights, because the people overwhelmingly want one, even if many politicians don’t. Here Professor George Williams outlines the background to, and makes the case for, the next round of the ‘debat…
As the Actor represents Everyman, so Paul Hogan represents us all over the bureaucratic inequities of oppressive legality and secrecy laws in Australia. He is now locked in the debtor’s prison the nation is becoming, reverting to its penal role two centu…
Editor, West Australian: I respond to your report ‘Frustrated DPP sees flaws in quality of police probe’ 29 June 2010, p7.
I have read Coroner Alastair Hope’s report on Aborigine elder Mr Ward’s death in custody, in the back of a prison transfer van,…
Around Australia, drug testing of drivers takes places with no proven benefit to society and great penalty to people’s civil liberties. In WA, the accuracy of the tests is declining, research in SA shows (see CLArion newsletter July 2010). Here, Bill Bus…