New legislation giving judges the power to strip terrorists of their citizenship is being rushed into federal parliament this week, as the government tries to shore up its anti-terror regime in the wake of two recent High Court rulings.
New legislation giving judges the power to strip terrorists of their citizenship is being rushed into federal parliament this week, as the government tries to shore up its anti-terror regime in the wake of two recent High Court rulings.
Don’t worry guys, these laws are only for terrorists. You know, like the secret courts are for trying terrorists.
They’ve been used for many dangerous terrorists like checks notes … whistleblowers speaking out against government corruption. Wait that doesn’t seem right. Hold on there must be something here frantically flips through notes aha! Lawyers of whistleblowers…ah fuck.
I don’t understand why terrorists even need to be trialled in secret - what’s the government’s stated excuse? That we decided its just not worth properly funding our legal system to ensue a prompt trial and protect the rule of law?
Going off memory so someone please correct me but I think it was introduced by Howard and the excuse was national security, naturally. More specifically to keep secret any sensitive evidence that could compromise national security. I guess there is just no other solution to that other than to throw rule of law in the bin 🤷
Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it’s something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.