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.

  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.