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Clean slate for prison reform

The Canberra community decided on 19 October to remove from its parliament the two most recent ministers for corrections, Mick Gentleman (Labor) and...

29.10.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Absence of care: AMC prison a drug “supermarket”; force applied with “regularity”, report staff

The ACT’s prison is run by a clique, with detainee bashings covered up, staff bullied into silence and the library better labelled “a...

16.10.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Sunlight needed to eradicate prison horrors

Reports of malfeasance involving staff at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, the ACT’s supposedly human-rights-compliant prison, are now too numerous...

11.10.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

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Concerned lawyers hit out at Chief Justice's sexual assault trial comments

The upper echelons of Canberra's criminal bar are on a collision course with Chief Justice Lucy McCallum over the conduct of sexual-assault trials in...

03.06.2024 30

Canberra Times

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ACT legal eagles hit out at Chief Justice

The upper echelons of Canberra’s criminal bar are on a collision course with Chief Justice Lucy McCallum over the conduct of sexual-assault trials...

01.06.2024 20

Pearls and Irritations

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How the ACT Govt is making more people vulnerable

The ACT Labor-Greens coalition is widely seen as the most permissive and truly liberal government in the country. It is moving to raise the age of...

23.05.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Can music conquer all? You bet

12.05.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

No, Minister. It’s you who should be in court

09.05.2024 30

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Departure of Justice Richard Refshauge: end of an era

It was a particularly technical legal point. The colleague was an experienced trial advocate with a case in which he felt there was a slim plot of...

21.04.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Labor not tribal enough for three of its own

The ACT Labor-led Government might lead the nation in many worthy ways and it might, too, you might think, especially six months out from an election,...

14.04.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

ACT law reform to be still-born?

ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury might get the feeling that the new Law Reform and Sentencing Advisory Council he established in November last...

09.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Police chief hits out – with compassion

ACT Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan has expressed alarm at the severe constraints on front-line policing in Canberra while showing great sympathy...

03.04.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

Indigenous incarceration

More than a quarter of Canberra’s daily average prison population is Indigenous but only 2 per cent of people in the ACT identify as an Aboriginal...

23.02.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Fraser

What does Canberra need most in its next legal leader?

Could the Canberra Raiders be a stumbling block to the appointment of Anthony Williamson, SC, as the territory's sixth Director of Public...

16.02.2024 10

Canberra Times

Andrew Fraser

How everyone can help improve appalling ACT Indigenous prison rates

More than one-quarter of Canberra's daily average prison population is Indigenous but only 2 per cent of people in the ACT identify as an Aboriginal...

09.02.2024 10

Canberra Times

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