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Democratic Rights

     

21 August 2008
Sydney man faces "terrorist" trial for compiling book

7 August 2008
Australian Federal Court upholds Kafka-like powers to cancel passports and visas

5 August 2008
Australia: Labor governments demand tougher censorship laws

1 August 2008
Australia: The role of Howard and Ruddock in the witch-hunting of Mohamed Haneef

29 July 2008
Australia: Jack Thomas appeals against retrial on terrorist charges

10 July 2008
Labor government introduces draconian police powers for Pope's visit

7 July 2008
Australia: Rudd government tries to suppress Haneef frame-up documents

5 July 2008
Australia: Release of secret reports highlights Labor's role in boosting spy agencies

10 June 2008
Bill Henson case dropped but Australia’s "moral guardians" demand harsher censorship laws

3 June 2008
Growing condemnation of censorship of Australian artist Bill Henson

30 May 2008
Australian photographer Bill Henson--scapegoat for a wider assault on democratic rights

26 May 2008
Australia: Labor government backs witch-hunting of photographer Bill Henson

20 May 2008
Australia: Haneef documents point to Howard cabinet's role in witch-hunt

6 May 2008
Former prosecutor testifies that Guantánamo military commissions are show trials

Lawyer speaks to WSWS: "David Hicks was a pawn in a political process"

1 May 2008
Australia: Haneef "terrorism" inquiry to be conducted behind closed doors

24 April 2008
Australia: Latest "terror plot" claims unravel in court

15 April 2008
Australian Federal Police still pursuing Mohamed Haneef

7 April 2008
Australian court quashes convictions of protesters for entering US spy base

2 April 2008
Judge temporarily halts Australian terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners

26 March 2008
Australia: Haneef inquiry seeks to "restore confidence" in terror laws

10 March 2008
Lengthy terrorist trials underway in Australia

3 March 2008
Australian Federal Police commissioner reveals scale of Haneef frame-up

14 January 2008
Australian Labor government threatens to censor Internet

3 January 2008
Australia: Political vendetta resumes as David Hicks leaves prison

Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS

24 December 2007
Australian Labor government endorses further punitive measures against David Hicks

10 December 2007
Australia: Howard government knew of Guantánamo detainee's torture complaints

1 November 2007
Howard government caught out lying over Hicks release from Guantánamo

Terry Hicks, father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with the WSWS

9 October 2007
Australia's High Court rules that voting rights can be abolished

28 September 2007
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's new para-military police
Part 2

27 September 2007
"Policing the neighbourhood"--Australia's new para-military police
Part 1

8 September 2007
Haneef police transcript exposes Australian government's "terrorist conspiracy" claims

5 September 2007
Australian legal academics accept arrest of antiwar colleague

4 September 2007
Australia: Extraordinary security operation shuts down central Sydney for APEC summit

24 August 2007
"Terrorism" case unravels further Australian judge overturns government cancellation of Dr Haneef's visa

13 August 2007
Australian High Court radically expands scope of military power
Judges sanction "control order" on Jack Thomas

28 July 2007
Haneef "terrorism" charges dropped: a debacle for the Howard government

25 July 2007
Australian government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef case falls apart

20 July 2007
Australian government's "terrorist" case against Dr Haneef unravels

17 July 2007
Australian government unilaterally detains doctor after court agrees to bail

14 July 2007
Australia: British terrorist attacks used to detain doctor without trial

2 July 2007
Antiwar protesters fined for entering US-Australian spy base

26 June 2007
Police spy agencies target Australian universities

23 June 2007
Terry Hicks, father of former Guantánamo prisoner, speaks with WSWS
"People are now waking up..."

5 June 2007
Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail

4 June 2007
Another threat to democratic rights
Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base's role in Iraq war

21 May 2007
Australia: Police-state measures for APEC summit in Sydney

7 May 2007
Tamils arrested in Australia under Howard's draconian "anti-terrorism" laws

24 April 2007
Jack Thomas "control order" case
Australian government argues for mass detention power in "war on terror"

14 April 2007
Guantánamo Bay detainee railroaded into guilty plea
The issues of principle in the case of David Hicks

28 March 2007
David Hicks bullied into guilty plea at Guantánamo kangaroo court

20 March 2007
Australia: The true face of the "war on terror"
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students

SEP demands immediate release of Australian citizen David Hicks from Guantánamo

7 March 2007
Australian government declares it owes no legal duty to Guantánamo detainee David Hicks

27 February 2007
Senior lawyers accuse Australian government of war crimes over Guantánamo

23 February 2007
Australian government prepares to introduce de facto universal ID card

19 February 2007
Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks

26 January 2007
In the face of mounting opposition, Australian government backs new Guantánamo courts

8 January 2007
David Hicks enters his sixth year of detention at Guantánamo Bay

30 December 2006
Australian court orders re-trial on terrorist charges

15 December 2006
Australian lawyers launch court bid to secure David Hicks's release from Guantánamo

12 December 2006
Australian rallies demand release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay

27 October 2006
Australia's new sedition laws and the case of Brian Cooper

26 October 2006
Australian government revives book banning

9 October 2006
Australian attorney-general insists sleep deprivation is not torture

30 September 2006
Australian government rejects limits on sedition powers

5 September 2006
Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks

30 August 2006
Australia's first "control order" imposed on Jack Thomas

28 August 2006
Australia: The torture of Jack Thomas

22 August 2006
Australian court overturns "terrorist" conviction based on torture

21 August 2006
Australia: Electoral bill blocks registration of new parties
A new assault on democratic rights

7 July 2006
Following US Supreme Court ruling
Australian government demands new "kangaroo court" for David Hicks

1 July 2006
Another sign of popular disgust
Australian film festival audience invites Mamdouh Habib to speak about Guantánamo documentary

22 June 2006
Australian government retains detention powers

21 June 2006
A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of "preparing terrorism"

4 May 2006
Australian police harass former Guantánamo prisoner

12 April 2006
Use of police infiltrators raises fresh questions about "terrorist" raids in Australia

7 April 2006
Australian man jailed on evidence derived from torture

5 April 2006
New phone-tapping powers in Australia

23 March 2006
On orders from prime minister's department and police: Australian web site shut down

16 March 2006
"No threat"--but massive security at Melbourne Games

8 March 2006
Graffiti computer game banned in Australia
Bi-partisan censorship campaign targets youth

1 March 2006
Australian jury dismisses main charges in Melbourne "terrorism" case

15 February 2006
New attack on freedom of expression Australian police seize artwork from gallery

4 February 2006
Another exposure of Australian government involvement in citizen's torture

12 January 2006
Australian terrorist trials face lengthy delays

28 December 2005
British court rules Guantánamo detainee David Hicks entitled to UK citizenship

3 December 2005
An act of barbarism
Nguyen Tuong Van executed in Singapore

2 December 2005
Australian government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation

28 November 2005
Military trial of David Hicks and other Guantánamo prisoners deferred

25 November 2005
Australian "terror" raids target Tamil groups

17 November 2005
Police claims raise new questions about "terrorist" raids in Australia

10 November 2005
Anger mounts over Australia's anti-terror laws

9 November 2005
Howard's terrorist "alert" leads to
Politically manipulated police raids in Australia

8 November 2005
Within days of Howard's terror "alert"
Australian government seeks expanded powers to call out troops

7 November 2005
Unanimous backing for Howard's emergency anti-terror laws
A revealing line-up in the Australian Senate

5 November 2005
Unanswered questions about Australia's "terrorist" alert

4 November 2005
Australian legal experts condemn Anti-Terrorism Bill

3 November 2005
Australia's "Anti-Terrorism" Bill: the framework for a police state

2 November 2005
To silence opposition to police-state measures
Australian government declares "urgent" terrorist threat

31 October 2005
"Bali Nine" alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian police

26 October 2005
Howard government abandons Australian citizen sentenced to death in Singapore

10 October 2005
Australian government instigates move to jail journalists

5 October 2005
Australia: Labor premiers join hands with Howard at "anti-terror" summit

30 September 2005
With Canberra's loyal support
US to resume Guantánamo trial of David Hicks

21 September 2005
Mamdouh Habib, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, speaks with the WSWS

14 September 2005
Australian government to deport American antiwar activist

12 September 2005
Australian government unveils legal framework for police state

25 August 2005
Australian government continues to back discredited US military tribunals

Father of Australian Guantánamo prisoner speaks to the WSWS

18 August 2005
Australia: terrorism trial of Jack Thomas to rely on coerced evidence

30 June 2005
New wave of police "anti-terror" raids in Australia

28 June 2005
Two Australian "terrorist" trials set dangerous precedents

19 May 2005
The politics of the "war on terror"
Two Australian academics openly advocate torture

25 April 2005
Jury throws out charges in first Australian "terrorist" trial

19 April 2005
Australian media debates legalisation of torture

14 April 2005
Disturbing new facts emerge on incarceration of Australian woman

6 April 2005
Muted response by Canberra as Australian woman faces death penalty in Indonesia

4 April 2005
A cynical twist in Australia's mandatory refugee detention regime

28 March 2005
New details of Australian involvement in the torture of Mamdouh Habib

18 February 2005
Released Guantánamo inmate speaks out Mamdouh Habib indicts Australian government

9 February 2005
Australian woman imprisoned for 10 months as an illegal immigrant

7 February 2005
Australian government persecutes released Guantánamo prisoner

24 January 2005
US and Australian governments delay release of Guantánamo detainee

14 January 2005
US releases Mamdouh Habib and four British prisoners from Guantánamo Bay

13 January 2005
"Support for our struggle is growing"
Father of Guantánamo Bay prisoner speaks with WSWS

20 December 2004
Secret evidence used in Australian "terrorist" trial

18 December 2004
David Hicks details abuse in Guantánamo Bay

25 November 2004
Australia: Refugee detained for two years on false intelligence

9 November 2004
Guantánamo Bay trial of David Hicks adjourned

2 November 2004
Australia: new bipartisan assault on basic legal rights

14 September 2004
Terry Hicks speaks with WSWS
Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner denounces Howard government

1 September 2004
Hicks pleads not guilty at Guantanamo Bay "kangaroo court"

12 August 2004
New Guantanamo Bay torture allegations incriminate Australian government

26 July 2004
Australia: latest "terrorist" case relies on police entrapment

18 June 2004
Release Hicks, Habib and all Guantanamo Bay detainees
Howard government aids and abets US torture

15 June 2004
Meeting opposes Australia's draconian "anti-terror" laws

21 May 2004
New US torture revelations
Former prisoners demand release of Guantanamo Bay videotapes

Father of Guantanamo Bay prisoner says son has been abused

10 May 2004
This is a war 'of terror', not 'on terror'
An interview on Australia's "terrorist" arrests

4 May 2004
Australia's first "terrorist" charges: timed for Howard's election campaign

26 April 2004
Nauru deal cements Australia's Pacific incarceration policy

7 April 2004
Australian government uses Madrid bombings to justify further police-state powers

10 March 2004
Australian government gets "carte blanche" to outlaw organisations

26 February 2004
Australian Labor leader proposes retrospective laws to prosecute Guantanamo Bay detainees

4 February 2004
A blatant attack on democratic rights: Protestors jailed over antiwar sign on Sydney Opera House

30 January 2004
US military lawyer denounces Guantanamo Bay trials

30 December 2003
Australian detainee at Guantanamo Bay pressured to plead guilty

17 December 2003
Arrest of Zak Mallah: test case for Australia's anti-terror laws

4 November 2003
Australia: More sensational "terror cell" claims: but where is the evidence?

20 October 2003
Australia: Protesters face jail over Opera House antiwar slogan

16 October 2003
Australian officials detain French student of African descent

9 October 2003
Law students' forum reviews Australia's "shrinking democracy"

8 October 2003
Guantanamo Bay detainee's family speaks with WSWS
"Why isn't the US military up on trial for terrorism?"

19 September 2003
Families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners launch US Supreme Court appeal

12 August 2003
Father of Australian Guantanamo Bay prisoner speaks to WSWS
"Howard is clutching at straws, but they're getting shorter"

26 July 2003
Australian and British governments claim military trials will be "fair"

15 July 2003
Release David Hicks and all Guantanamo Bay detainees

1 July 2003
ASIO Terrorism Act
Unprecedented police-state measures passed by Australian parliament

17 June 2003
Australian government resumes push for detention without trial

16 June 2003
Australian government bans Sydney Film Festival movie

10 May 2003
Pakistan to release Australian Jack Thomas after five months jail without charge

26 February 2003
Australian government backs imprisonment of Melbourne man in Pakistan

13 December 2002
Australian High Court libel ruling threatens Internet free speech

19 November 2002
Police assault anti-WTO protesters in Australia

3 October 2002
Australia: Families face collective punishment after gang rape sentences

23 August 2002
Australian families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners denounce US court ruling

29 July 2002
Prisoners held in Australian police cells denied basic rights

26 July 2002
Australia: "Anti-terror" laws passed with bipartisan support

18 July 2002
Australia: Anti-democratic election laws behind trial of right-wing politicians

1 July 2002
Australian secret police withhold young worker's passport

27 June 2002
Australian MP appeals against conviction for migration fraud

31 May 2002
Australian prisoners in Guantanamo Bay send letters exposing their illegal detention

25 May 2002
Australian government forced to delay "anti-terrorism" laws

18 May 2002
Australia: Howard government bans French movie Baise-moi

13 May 2002
Howard government backs US incarceration of second Australian in Camp X-Ray

7 May 2002
Victimised Australian professor reinstated but placed on "leave"

6 May 2002
Police attack May Day protests in Australia

27 April 2002
Australian Senate hearings reveal public opposition to "terrorism" laws

26 April 2002
Howard government complicit in detention of Australian citizen by US military

17 April 2002
Father of Australian POW denounces illegal detention at Guantanamo Bay

11 March 2002
Australian, British and US lawyers challenge detention of Guantanamo Bay prisoners

26 February 2002
Australia: Labor trials "rent-a-cop" plan

15 February 2002
Australian government launches new attacks on free speech

8 February 2002
Australian detainee at Guantanamo Bay abandoned by Howard government

Interview on the Hicks case: "A blatant disregard for human rights"

29 October 2001
Media witchhunt Australian boxer for opposing US war

25 October 2001
Unprecedented police raid on nightclubs in Australia's largest city

23 October 2001
Australia: Police deeply entrenched in Sydney's drug traffic

4 October 2001
Australia: US terror attacks used to introduce sweeping police powers

21 August 2001
Questions raised after five mentally-ill prisoners die in Australia

2 August 2001
Australia: "Anti-social conduct" outlawed in the Northern Territory

23 June 2001
Australian newspaper chain launches unprecedented smear against Aboriginal official

19 June 2001
Australian university refuses to reinstate sacked academic

13 June 2001
Australian state premier declares he will "cement" long-term prisoners in their cells

20 April 2001
Union undermines the defence of sacked Australian academic

7 April 2001
New Australian police powers overturn presumption of innocence

28 February 2001
A test case for free speech
Australian academic dismissed for opposing falling university standards

20 February 2001
Commando-style police raid in Sydney designed to intimidate youth

19 January 2001
South Australian police raid bookshop and seize Mapplethorpe's Pictures

24 November 2000
Further moves to undermine Australian public broadcaster

1 November 2000
A precipitous increase in Australia's prison population

13 October 2000
Australia: Private prisons to remain in Victoria despite government takeover of women's jail

28 September 2000
Australia: Investigation to be conducted into police violence against anti-WEF protesters

31 August 2000
Security preparations in Australia for upcoming World Economic Forum

29 August 2000
Australian government seeks to push through revamped military call-out Bill

5 August 2000
Australian government uses Sydney Olympics to strengthen military powers

20 April 2000
Bid for increased police power in Australia
Wee Waa: a test case for mass DNA sampling

28 March 2000
Australia: Alarming death rate among recently released female prisoners

14 March 2000
Huge security buildup for Sydney Olympics

19 February 2000
Public outcry in Australia over jailed Aboriginal boy's suicide

11 February 2000
The banning and unbanning in Australia of the new French film Romance

7 February 2000
Australia: Police raids on ultra-right party set dangerous precedent

17 January 2000
Konrad Kalejs given refuge again
Australia a "safe haven" for Nazi war criminals

11 January 2000
Child psychiatrist discusses Supreme Court manslaughter trial of young boy in Australia

29 December 1999
National Gallery of Australia cancels Sensation exhibition

24 December 1999
An interview with victimised Australian teacher
"Freedom of speech must be defended"

15 December 1999
Supreme Court declares government's gag clause invalid
Sacked Australian teacher wins significant victory

New Labor government defends Kennett's gagging laws in the Supreme Court

9 December 1999
Australian jury unmoved by government campaign
Young boy acquitted of manslaughter

30 November 1999
Manslaughter trial of 11-year-old continues in Australian Supreme Court

29 November 1999
Australian Greens join Labor to block registration of new parties

18 November 1999
American abortion doctor detained by Australian immigration

"I have traveled all over the world... but nobody has ever treated me like this"
WSWS
interviews Dr Warren Hern

4 November 1999
Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection

21 September 1999
Spotlight on Australian justice
Aboriginal teenagers jailed, prison suicides treble

7 September 1999
Australian laws violate children's rights

31 July 1999
Widening media scandal in Australia
Big business pays millions to radio talkshow host

24 July 1999
Australia: Media hysteria fails to prevent release of John Lewthwaite

23 July 1999
Drug companies exploited medical volunteers in Australia
Human guinea pigs and profiteering in World War II

7 July 1999
Australian community television in crisis

25 June 1999
Prisons galore: the real face of the New South Wales budget

11 June 1999
Australian government introduces Internet censorship laws

22 May 1999
Australia: Media magnates call for scrapping of ownership restrictions

17 May 1999
Magistrate's verdict overturned
11-year-old child to stand trial for manslaughter in Australia

17 April 1999
Committal hearing concludes in Sydney
"Criminally wrong" or "naughty"?--little boy could face trial for manslaughter

27 March 1999
Political police will hack into computers
Wide new powers for Australian spy agency

18 March 1999
10-year-old charged with manslaughter in Australia
Media sensationalises Sydney boy's trial

Australia's richest man cleared of breaching media laws

29 February 1999
Kurdish protesters express outrage in Australia

15 January 1999
"Law and order" campaign in Australian state election
Labor to abolish right to silence before criminal trials

7 January 1999
Protest Australian government exclusion of Tamil socialist

6 January 1999
Tamil socialist barred from visiting Australia

10 December 1998
New attacks on the democratic rights of refugees

11 November 1998
Labor government boosts police powers
Sydney shooting sparks witchhunt against youth

10 November 1998
Labor governments push debate about naming juveniles facing criminal charges

22 October 1998
Video reveals prison bashing in Australia

3 October 1998
Ten-year-old charged with manslaughter in Australia

18 August 1998
Outrage - and silence - over concentration camps for immigrants

26 June 1998
Political police strengthened in Australian state

29 May 1998
Yet another police killing in Australia

11 April 1998
Prison deaths soar in Australia

13 May 1998
Australia - 2000 Olympics used to boost political police

 

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