In our traditional letters on Australia Day, Civil Liberties Australia has in 2020 asked all Attorneys-Generals throughout Australia to get rid of mandatory sentencing laws, backing up calls from the International Commission of Jurists Australia and the Law Council of Australia. CLA has also asked the ACT A-G to inquire into what went wrong with the 30-year saga of the David Eastman police investigation, prosecution and trials, which cost the tiny territory about $40m, including $7m compensation for Eastman recently.
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