Your Civil Rights overruled by Police Convenience: Strip-Searching your ‘Designated Areas’ at Will and without Consequence.
The amendments to the Summary Offences & Control of Weapons Act that enable police to strip-search citizens at will are deeply disturbing. Can any of us take our freedoms so for granted that we let this slip idly by?
Higgins voters aghast! Campaign Notes on Climate Change and Tony Abbott.
Higgins is regarded as a conservative area. It has always voted that way. Its settled affluence, extremely high education levels and orderly dignity suggests Tory.
In moving around the electorate campaigning over the last few weeks, the error of such assumptions has been dramatically proven.
On climate change – seemingly, the cause of the Left – Higgins [...]
Senate Rejects ETS – Would The Democrats Have Improved and Passed this Law?
So – the Senate, as the dogs have been barking for some time now, has rejected the Rudd government ETS legislation. Setting in place, should the Rudd government choose to take it, a trigger for a double dissolution of federal parliament. For those not familiar with this – Rudd can move to call a general election and in the process declare both the House of Representatives and the Senate open for election.
Abbott writes ‘Kick Here’ on the Liberal rump. The ALP and Voters will take him at his word
In making Tony Abbott their leader, the Liberal Party have declared themselves unelectable and destroyed their future. Tony Abbott is an intelligent and articulate man. But the hard-line Catholic conservative beliefs he articulates are poison to middle Australia – where governments are made and lost. Were he to become Prime Minister, our country would be a centre of commerce, not a civilization…
Four Wheels Good; Two Wheels Bad – Police Association demonizes motorcycles, bikie gangs and minorites
The Australian Democrats condemn in the strongest possible terms agitation by the police officers trade union for new Victorian laws that criminalize motorcycle riders. Such laws would breach many of the fundamental civil liberties enjoyed by all, oppress an innocent minority and foster a culture of intolerance.
“We want none of this,” the Democrats Higgins by-election candidate David Collyer said…
It’s Time The Territories Got State Rights – An Issue For The Gay And Lesbian Community?
It’s looking like the Rudd government is set to follow, again, in the footsteps of John Howard’s ultra conservative government. Rudd and his government are considering, we are told, over turning recent legislation in the ACT in respect of same gender marriages and rights.
It’s way past time the territories were given the same democratic rights we all expect and enjoy.
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Darren Churchill ACT- Media Release: 26th February, 2010: Proposed police powers laws labelled “Draconian” by Democrats
- Media Release: 22nd January 2010: ACT Democrats join Great Australian Internet Blackout.
- Media Release: 20th January 2010: Canberrans must have a guarantee that South Australian Movie Laws won’t be copied by ACT Assembly, say Democrats.
- Media Release: 14th January 2010: Canberrans Need Action Not Words in Opposing Internet Censorship, say Democrats
- Media Release: 02 December: Canberrans Let Down as Humphries Toes Party Line, say Democrats
- Begin Rant – Kathryn Crosby
- Begin Rant: The disenfranchised and forgotten Australians
- Begin Rant: Cheesecake and the path not taken
- Begin Rant: The dangers for rural health in Rudd’s proposed health care takeover
- Begin Rant: You really can’t get mad cow from a meat pie.
- Begin Rant: Internet Censorship reflective of Rudd’s wider control agenda