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Former Australian Soldier’s Message To Public Officers
𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗩𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆 – 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀
Mark Sexton: Message to Serving Police Officers
Ex-Policeman Mark Sexton sends a message to serving police officers.
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September 2021
If Australia’s brutal response to lockdown protests was happening elsewhere, hypocritical Canberra would be demanding sanctions
Burma? Hong Kong? Venezuela? Nope, it’s my home town of Melbourne, Australia. If the scenes from three increasingly combative confrontations from the last four days were broadcast from any of the aforementioned nations, Aussie PM Scott Morrison and his ministers would be on their feet so quickly they’d have scorch marks on the seat of [...]
Australia’s two largest states trial facial recognition software to police pandemic rules
Australia's two most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID-19 quarantine, expanding trials that have sparked controversy to the vast majority of the country's population. Little-known tech firm Genvis Pty Ltd said on a website for its software that New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, home [...]
Victoria Police say Professional Commands Standard to investigate confronting Flinders Street footage
A Victorian police officer will be investigated after footage of a heavy-handed confrontation circulated online. Footage captured at Flinders Street Station, as seen above, began circulating on Wednesday night. It shows a man talking to three police officers with his arms at his side, before another officer comes up behind him. That officer grabs the [...]
Emergency Powers and the Rule of Law
Since March 2020 Australia’s governments have been using their powers to excessively coerce, obstruct or otherwise unreasonably interfere with the life, liberty and property of the citizen. These governments are exercising emergency powers to impose measures that profoundly undermine basic principles of the rule of law, including equality before the law and the right of [...]
NSW Police Commissioner admits increased enforcement is not based on health orders
The head of NSW Police has admitted escalated enforcement operations are not directed by any public health order, but rather their own agenda to achieve greater compliance. Mick Fuller recently told NSW Parliament that the force has committed to “treating the virus like a criminal”, encouraging officers to “put community policing to the side”. This [...]
Facebook or Twitter posts can now be quietly modified by the government under new surveillance laws
A new law gives Australian police unprecedented powers for online surveillance, data interception and altering data. These powers, outlined in the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill, raise concerns over potential misuse, privacy and security. The bill updates the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979. In essence, it allows law-enforcement agencies or authorities [...]