Governing the Global Good?: Humanitarianism and International Ethics (Security and Governance)
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
YOU don't have to be a civil libertarian to oppose giving police the powers to indiscriminately stop and search people without so much as a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Yet that is exactly what the West Australian government is trying to do with legislation before parliament this week.Think about it for a moment. You could be walking down the street (or even driving a car) and a police...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... operations. Mr Johnson admitted that privatising speed and red-light operations was on the Barnett Government's agenda and was supported by Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan. But the plan has already drawn fire from the Opposition, which claims that putting the personal details of thousands of WA motorists in the hands of a private operator is unwise. ``The Government would...
Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Last week, this column took note of the Barnett government’s attempt to introduce legislation removing “reasonable cause” provisions from laws governing the police’s stop ‘n’ search powers. Watching a democratically elected government use democratic freedoms as bonfire fuel is bad enough … but watching the Opposition fumble the ball on opposing them is simply excruciating.
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
ANOTHER GOVERNMENT agency has been hit with resignations.Executive director of the HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA) Paulette Dunn-Smith and senior director Clover Barnett yesterday parted company with the agency. The development came after...
