- 1. "Legislation Amendments required for Australian Legislation to comply with the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights." ...
- (Uncategorised)
- “Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing ...
- Created on 11 July 2013
- 2. Human Rights make Child Protection Amendments Illegal ...
- (Uncategorised)
- Article 10 states : Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge ...
- Created on 28 May 2011
- 3. In the best interest of the child and human rights: Alecomm legislation amendments submission ...
- (What do we want?)
- ... who get involved with the Department of Human Services (DoHS). The Petitioners, led by the New Stolen Generation by DoHS (NSGBD), request the following amendments to the Children and Young Persons (Care ...
- Created on 12 May 2010
- 4. Child removal and forced adoption amendments in NSW ...
- (Forced Adoptions)
- Now that the child removal and adoption amendments have passed into law, the government can take any single mothers children and immediately place them for adoption upon the decision of a DOCS or NGO social ...
- Created on 06 March 2010
- 5. Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 78 studies
- (Ivermectin)
- Statistically significant improvements are seen for mortality, ventilation, ICU admission, hospitalization, recovery, cases, and viral clearance. All remain significant after exclusions. 50 studies ...
- Created on 05 February 2022
- 6. Chinese investment in Australia and the world: More than state-owned companies and mines
- (China)
- ... s highlighted on these pages by O'Brien and Wong. Policy makers on both sides of politics should take note of these trends, consider them carefully, and then determine legislative and policy amendments t ...
- Created on 03 May 2020
- 7. New laws to allow doctors to trial new and emerging treatments for COVID-19
- (Covid Human Rights)
- Guardianship and Administration Amendment (Medical Research) Bill 2020 to be introduced into State Parliament today Amendments to existing legislation to provide an avenue for research or novel treatment ...
- Created on 31 March 2020
- 8. NSW prisoners to be released early over coronavirus fears
- (Covid General Articles)
- ... and frail or suffering from a terminal illness. But Mr Speakman said the new amendments to the crimes (administration of sentences) act would also “create a power for the governor to make regulations ...
- Created on 25 March 2020
- 9. Family law inquiry to hear push for children to have more influence in custody cases
- (Uncategorised)
- ... to have had a childhood. Key points: Few children currently give evidence in family court hearings about them Advocates are calling for amendments to the Family Law Act The changes would requir ...
- Created on 15 February 2020
- 10. PM blames drought, but there’s been over 100 cases of maladministration in Murray Darling in less than one year
- (Water)
- ... amendments to the Murray Darling Basin Plan. The Prime Minister wants to blame the recent Darling River fish kills on drought, but research by The Australia Insitute has found over 100 reports of maladministration ...
- Created on 23 January 2020
- 11. Press Release: Upcoming Barnevernett CPS Kidnapping Ring Conference this weekend in Sofia
- (Rallies / Meetings / Protests)
- ... main demands of the protestors is the total repeal of the newly adopted laws, as well as the amendments and supplements of the already existing laws, which will come into force in January 2020. These legal ...
- Created on 28 September 2019
- 12. Chrissie Foster urges MPs to strip Catholic seal of confession's mandatory reporting exemption
- (Paedophile Priests)
- ... e a recommendation from the child sex abuse royal commission that churches not be exempt from reporting information discovered during religious confession. In amendments to be introduced to Parliame ...
- Created on 14 August 2019
- 13. Mom sues county for giving her minor son sex change without her consent
- (Gender Fluidity)
- ... federal law, the right to parent is considered an unenumerated right, protected from governmental interference by the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments,” said Kaardal. “The “liberty” ...
- Created on 26 July 2019
- 14. Serial WA child rapist who claimed 'victims were willing' to be released from jail
- (Paedophile protection by state government)
- ... d whether MGD's release exposes loopholes in amendments to Dangerous Sex Offender laws that were introduced by Attorney-General John Quigley. "The reforms that Mr Quigley said would fix this problem ...
- Created on 03 May 2019
- 15. New South Wales politics Fears of ‘another stolen generation’ after New South Wales' move on foster care
- (Child Protection Truths)
- ... more than 12 months to even get admitted to a drug rehabilitation program.” He said the Greens were drafting amendments to “unambiguously protect Aboriginal children and families from this damaging plan”. ...
- Created on 27 October 2018
- 16. Another few horrible facts to behold about criminal foster care:
- (About Foster Care)
- ... case we bring and Congress enacts the amendments we seek, it will be the end of state agencies legally kidnapping children under state laws which do not require the state to show a prevention of substantial ...
- Created on 25 August 2018
- 17. Alberta promises ‘decisive steps’ to overhaul child interventions in the province
- (Child Protection Canada media and newspaper articles)
- ... allocated to achieve these immediate changes, including amendments to the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act, increased cultural learning opportunities to reduce racism within Children’s Services, ...
- Created on 28 June 2018
- 18. 'Insane': Government gets its way on wild horses despite protests from scientists
- (Uncategorised)
- ... ry Panel," Dr Faruqi said. The Greens along with Labor were seeking to introduce amendments to the bill, including to ensure the National Parks and Wildlife Act and National Park Management Principles pr ...
- Created on 06 June 2018
- 19. New Queensland Child protection legislation receives assent
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... child protection legislation is generally operating effectively, but the need for priority amendments and opportunities for broad legislative reform were identified. As outlined in the Bill’s Explanatory ...
- Created on 14 November 2017
- 20. Police want to read encrypted messages, but they already have significant power to access our data
- (Police Corruption and Brutality)
- ... on ready access to metadata rather than pursuing traditional investigatory methods. Computer network operations Recent amendments to the TIA Act also allow the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ...
- Created on 08 September 2017
- 21. Turnbull government orders first ever review of the Family Law Act
- (Family Law Courts)
- ... nted to give priority in the ALRC's workload to examining Indigenous incarceration rates. The government has also already released for consultation proposed amendments to the Family Law Act to ensur ...
- Created on 17 August 2017
- 22. ICAC Operation Credo finds Obeid, Tripodi, Kelly engaged in corrupt conduct
- (Corrupt Politicians)
- ... place in 2014 however the publication of the findings were delayed by various legal proceedings and resulting amendments to legislation covering the ICAC. "The NSW Government has a zero-tolerance approa ...
- Created on 03 August 2017
- 23. Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
- (China)
- ... ted prisoners. Legislators who supported the bill noted that the amendments were intended to address the problem of Taiwanese citizens traveling to China to purchase organs, some of which were harvested from livi ...
- Created on 21 June 2017
- 24. AFP data breach: six cases of alleged police misconduct investigated
- (Police Corruption and Brutality)
- ... Federal police admit to accessing journalist's metadata without a warrant Following the federal government’s data retention amendments, the AFP also tightened up the list of officers who could sig ...
- Created on 29 April 2017
- 25. Adani coalmine project frozen by shock land rights ruling
- (Mining)
- ... ruling over a native title deal in Western Australia. Indigenous groups, the mining industry and the Queensland government this week demanded that federal Attorney-General George Brandis introduce amendments ...
- Created on 11 February 2017
- 26. UK judges change court rules on child contact for violent fathers
- (Family Law Courts)
- ... praised both Women’s Aid and the “hard hitting articles in the Guardian” for highlighting the issues. The changes are contained in amendments to judicial guidance known as practice direction 12J. A ke ...
- Created on 21 January 2017
- 27. Government ignores social workers, campaigners, Lords and more than 100,000 petitioners and forces child protection opt-outs back into Children and Social Work Bill
- (UK Child Protection)
- ... break to push scrutiny through at top speed. “The House of Lords has already rejected Government amendments. This is a fundamentally unsound and dangerous scheme – and tinkering around the edges won’t ...
- Created on 12 December 2016
- 28. How to scam the system & disadvantage political opponents by ‘giving the power back to the people’, all in the interests of ‘democracy’
- (Inspiration)
- ... ting any amendments proposed to remove the above the line savings measure from the Bill.” The government has introduced the vote 1 only option, because they regard many voters as too stupid to under ...
- Created on 05 July 2016
- 29. Thought 'death cult' lawmaking ended with Abbott? Think again
- (Uncategorised)
- ... s it do? According to submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee when it was considering the amendments to the Citizenship Act which now allow for Australians to automatically "renounce" their ...
- Created on 16 April 2016
- 30. Child sex abuse cases in the Family Court of Australia
- (Family Courts protecting Paedophiles)
- ... family courts were likely to ignore them when deciding the child`s place of residence. In the 2006 amendments to Australian family law, penalties wer ...
- Created on 13 April 2016
- 31. The Biosecurity Act 2015 – more than 100 years in the making, a shift to risk-based regulation, and activation of the Regulatory Powers Act
- (Uncategorised)
- ... (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014 which repeals the Quarantine Act three Biosecurity Charging Imposition Acts: the Quarantine Charges (Imposition-General) Amendment ...
- Created on 15 June 2015
- 32. "Ten reasons to vote NO to constitutional recognition"
- (Uncategorised)
- Ten Reasons why it's okay to Vote No: 1. Because the governments recognition campaign is seeking support for the amendments to the constitution when the exact wording hasn't actually been shown to t ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 33. Australia puts children at risk by ‘freeing up’ the adoption market
- (Adoption)
- ... addressed in bilateral arrangements. The amendments should be considered as one part of a suite of proposed changes. Abbott’s close relationship with lobbyists, widely reported in the media, raises unanswered ...
- Created on 08 September 2014
- 34. "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure"
- (Rights of the Child)
- ... thereto occurring after the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State concerned. Article 21 Amendments 1. Any State party may propose an amendment to the present Protocol and submit ...
- Created on 21 April 2014
- 35. "Forced adoptions to continue with support from Labour and Liberal"
- (Uncategorised)
- It is with a very heavy and shattered heart that I have heard that the NSW Government quietly passed their amendments to their adoption laws, affectively bringing back forced adoption after apologising ...
- Created on 04 April 2014
- 36. "Impossible to beat the corruption in NSW government"
- (Uncategorised)
- ... to support Pru Goward and the proposed amendments to the NSW Children and Young Persons Care and Protection Act. So much for democracy, as Pru Goward got together with Barry O'Farrell and they have calle ...
- Created on 19 March 2014
- 37. "STOP the DOCS Friday afternoon swoop and scoops. STOP Goward's new laws. Support and opportunity for families NOT child removal.
- (Tactics caseworkers will use against you)
- ... re. The pain in communities is immense and many are taking about "a new stolen generation". New amendments to Child Protection legislation have been introduced by Community Services Minister Pru Gowar ...
- Created on 17 March 2014
- 38. Fact sheet: Troubling proposals in new child protection legislation
- (Proposed Child Protection Legislation Amendment Bill)
- ... placement principles remain in place, the other amendments to promote adoption risk weakening these principles and could result in culturally inappropriate orders for adoption of Aboriginal children. Where ...
- Created on 17 December 2013
- 39. "Victorian Law Reform ... made by lawyers, for lawyers ..."
- (Victoria DHHS)
- ... they would not be bound or regulated by the lawyers rules, in other word’s misleading and deceptive advertising of their services to naive consumers. Amendments and Notations required to be inserte ...
- Created on 12 November 2013
- 40. The Constitutional Right to Be a Parent
- (Uncategorised)
- ... ng those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions, and such right is a fundamental right protected by this amendment (First) and Amendme ...
- Created on 19 April 2013
- 41. "Terms and Conditions"
- (Uncategorised)
- ... information is intended for residents of Australia only. We reserve the right to amend this notice at any time and your use of the website following any amendments will represent your agreement to be ...
- Created on 24 February 2013
- 42. "Sahin v. Germany, Application No. 30943/96, Judgement of 8 July 2003"
- (Judicial Corruption)
- ... Family Matters eventually entered into force in July 1998. The Court wishes to make it clear that these amendments cannot in themselves be taken as demonstrating that the previous rules were contrary to the ...
- Created on 02 November 2012
- 43. "Children's Court of Victoria - Family Division - Child Protection"
- (Victoria DHHS)
- ... prescribed form under the new rules and the numbers of each order made state-wide from 2002/03 to 2010/11. The total number of protection orders increased significantly from 2006/07 to 2008/09, decl ...
- Created on 24 October 2012
- 44. "How Child Protection Services Buys and Sells Our Children"
- (Uncategorised)
- ... of parents under the 4th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. According to the Court, the investigative interview of a child constitutes a “search and seizure” and, when conducted on private property ...
- Created on 06 August 2012
- 45. "Children Legislation Amendment (Child Death Review Team) Bill 2011"
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... At that time the Coalition in opposition proposed amendments to further strengthen this bill. On 4 November 2010 the Ombudsman released the report "Unresolved issues in the transfer of NSW Child Death ...
- Created on 18 October 2011
- 46. Mischief in the Family Law Act
- (Court Ordered Abuse)
- ... it is a 'red flag' to the safety and well being of children. The amendments to the Family Law Act are now before the Senate Committee. It has since emerged that the mother in this case tried to rai ...
- Created on 30 June 2011
- 47. Family Law Act: too little, too late
- (Court Ordered Abuse)
- On Monday, March 26, 2006, Senator Santoro presented the Second Reading Speech (PDF 1.83MB) on the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill. These amendments introduced several key features ...
- Created on 07 December 2010
- 48. "Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amewndment (Homelessness Reporting Age) Bill 2010"
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... of guardian, and the importance of stable housing for young people. The amendments in this bill help to correct some of those changes. Youth homelessness is a serious issue across New South Wales. The ...
- Created on 01 December 2010
- 49. "Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Amendment Bill 2010"
- (Legislation and Acts)
- ... process. Obviously some of these amendments tidy up the parts of the amending bill we passed earlier that have proven to be more uncertain than we had thought. The bill deals with a number of issues ...
- Created on 23 November 2010