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Check out latest @wigspodcast ep on the fed govt’s proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill.
And my fun thing, which could be your fun thing too, on this weekend. Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog.
Artist credit: Sarrita King
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My fierce and courageous wife @flickgraham wrote on the NSW public mental health care crisis. Please read.
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The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Please read our brief look @TheLancet's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future.
"Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."
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So, unless I'm wrong about all of this, there should be some consideration at some point of where this all went so wrong. Is there a big problem in federal criminal justice policy? In drafting? In scrutiny? Or is this specific to the particular issue of sexual violence?
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Against my worry that I'm wrong is another worry: that I'm right, but that the provisions will pass anyway.
Maybe prosecutions will collapse? Maybe a defendant will be unjustly convicted? Maybe there'll be rushed legislation to fix a 'technical' problem that's come up?
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"The proposed change means that the new Commonwealth provisions would be much more restrictive than the NSW provision in s 294CB of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) and the Victorian provision in s 342 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 (Vic)"
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My submission is a *very* straight run through of these problems, without my usual flourishes.
That's because I am so nervous about it. The problems I described are just *so* extreme, and yet seemingly weren't picked up at any earlier stage of the bill's development.
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All of this goes well beyond NSW's rape shield law, which is already controversial for the limits it places on criminal defendants, notably on the issue of past false allegations.
The federal law blocks that too, even when it's part of a connected set of circumstances.
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Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
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The Wigs look at a truly unusual and interesting decision from Justice Wigney of the Federal Court which involved a serving federal judge being ordered to pay damages for wrongfully imprisoning a man he jailed for contempt of court. #auslaw #QLDlaw #nswpol
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I was a visible Muslim woman when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister (in Hijab).
I remember the overt Islamophobia. It often felt like “we” were holding onto the fabric of a country where our political leadership didn’t want “us”.
The food we ate was politicized. The way we prayed was politicized. The way we parented was politicized.
Muslim women’s bodies were politicized.
We were reduced to being seen through a security lens.
If I felt twinges of this as a privileged woman who could navigate processes & systems - how do you think other people in the Muslim community felt?
He was incredibly divisive & I know the Muslim community regularly stressed to him in public & private how damaging his comments were with respect to social cohesion.
To see a statement endorsed by him cautioning communities to not be divided rings hallow.
#socialcohesion #auspol #nswpol
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The Wigs Live! - The Sofronoff Inquiry and its Aftermath - LISTEN HERE: omny.fm/shows/the-wigs/the-w… #NSWPOL #AUSLAW
Back in the studio with a very special guest of @wigspodcast so listen out for another episode soon.
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Making decisions based on fear is not good for us as people and won't allow us to move forward as a country.
An article by @paulsakkal in the @smh has confirmed the 'No' campaign is deliberately using misinformation to generate fear & doubt in undecided voters.
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I've been speaking to some journalists about a lesser-known aspects of the #RobodebtRC: namely, that people were prosecuted and convicted for criminal offences arising from robodebts. Evidence heard from then acting Cth solicitor for the CDPP James Carter confirmed two things.
Spoiler: Jackmain was acquitted. But he never should have faced the trial that he did. And Jackmain is not the only one. #nswlaw
NEW EPISODE: In NSW Prior False Claims of Sexual Assault Are Inadmissible; Is Reform needed? #auslaw #nswpol
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This is an interesting (and difficult) issue that warrants further consideration. Nice to hear from @flickgraham, one of Jackmain’s counsel, on the background to this case.
Jackmain (a pseudonym) v R [2020] NSWCCA 150
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NEW EPISODE: In NSW Prior False Claims of Sexual Assault Are Inadmissible; Is Reform needed? #auslaw #nswpol
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Yes to believing in the strength of indigenous voices. Yes to being ambitious about the future. Yes to justice. #thevoice
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