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Style?Style?Australia's poor human rights recordJim McIlroy, Brisbane26 May 2007BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights legislation”, James

Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those

adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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Australia's poor human rights record

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane26 May 2007BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights legislation”, James Whelan from Amnesty

International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those adopted in Victoria and the

ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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Australia's poor human rights record

by Jim McIlroy26 May 2007BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights legislation”, James

Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those

adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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Australia's poor human rights recordJim McIlroy, Brisbane

26 May 2007BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights legislation”, James

Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.

Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without

human rights legislation”, James Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.

Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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Australia's poor human rights recordJim McIlroy, Brisbane26 May 2007BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights

legislation”, James Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.

Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last

year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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and last name.and last name.Australia's poor human rights recordJim McIlroy, Brisbane26 May 2007

BRISBANE — “Australia is the only Western democracy without human rights legislation”, James Whelan from Amnesty International told a public forum attended by 50 people on May 23.

Labor state minister for education Dean Wells argued for a charter of human rights like those adopted in Victoria and the ACT and that which has been operating for 17 years in New Zealand. Such a charter requires a statement of compatibility with human rights to accompany every bill that comes before parliament.

Jessica Moore, who faced police investigation in Wollongong last year under the so-called anti-terror laws, pointed out that state Labor governments have been collaborating with the federal Coalition to implement the draconian laws. Moore, an anti-war activist who has helped organise demonstrations in support of Palestinians’ right to self-determination, was accused of aiding Hamas in an anonymous complaint to the federal government’s anti-terror hotline.

“My experience shows that police are political, ideological. These anti-terror laws are totally against free speech”, Moore said. She urged people to collectively defy the laws and mobilise against them. “We need to campaign for a bill of human rights to protect our freedoms.”

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