The Law Council of Australia has opposed a proposal to permanently enshrine ASIO’s compulsory questioning powers by removing the safeguard provided by periodic review and public scrutiny.
Shit! Well, sorry!? I didn’t mean that as a personal attack to anyone in particular, especially not on AZ/Lemmy. I was mildly praising the Law Council, a fairly staid and conservative grouping of the ‘powers that be’, likely made up of an ‘in group’ of Australian power players. So I see them as a group that wouldn’t always understand or accept the problems with an overly securitised state.
Sometimes there is genuine and thoughtful pushback against the security services in this country.
Oh sorry, I didn’t know only legal professionals were allowed to push back against authoritarian overreach.
Shit! Well, sorry!? I didn’t mean that as a personal attack to anyone in particular, especially not on AZ/Lemmy. I was mildly praising the Law Council, a fairly staid and conservative grouping of the ‘powers that be’, likely made up of an ‘in group’ of Australian power players. So I see them as a group that wouldn’t always understand or accept the problems with an overly securitised state.