Freedoms are losing out to fear

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14 August 2009The proposed changes to anti-terrorism laws fail to find a balance between human rights and protecting citizens, writes Nicola McGarrity in The Age

 

THE draft laws released this week by the Federal Government are the most important package of changes to Australia's anti-terrorism laws since 2005. In the past, anti-terrorism laws have often been rushed through Parliament without adequate scrutiny of the extent to which they infringe basic human rights or of the discretion given to law enforcement or intelligence agencies...

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