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Judges need better education and structures to improve impartiality: report

Australians expects judges to make decisions impartially: that is, free from a range of improper and unacceptable political, financial and personal influences. Not only must they make decisions impartially, they must be seen to make their decisions impartially.

The Conversation

Watchdog singles out ACT court for 'extremely unusual' decision in secret trial of former military intelligence officer that 'should not have happened'

The top-secret trial, conviction, sentencing and jailing of a former military intelligence officer known as Witness J has been described as "unusual" and "unprecedented", with one of Australia's national security watchdogs warning it "should never happen again".

ABC News

Commonwealth drops attempt to challenge High Court ruling that Aboriginal Australians cannot be deported

New Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus ends the federal government's attempt to overturn the ruling that Indigenous Australians cannot be declared "aliens".

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'Never again' for secret spy prosecution

The attorney-general launched a review into Australia's national security laws following an inquiry into the secret conviction and sentencing of a former spy.

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Labor announces national security law review after inquiry criticises secrecy of Witness J case

Report describes ‘unprecedented’ secrecy that ‘should not have happened and should never happen again’

The Guardian - AU

Labor drops Coalition bid to overturn high court ruling that Indigenous Australians can’t be aliens

Decision by attorney general Mark Dreyfus guarantees a dozen Aboriginal non-citizens at risk of deportation will be able to stay in Australia

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government continues push to keep parts of Bernard Collaery case secret

Human Rights Law Centre says new attorney general should abandon the appeal and let judgment ‘finally see the light’

The Guardian - AU

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Federal Icac to cover private contractors working for government, attorney general says

Mark Dreyfus expands jurisdiction of proposed anti-corruption watchdog to include companies awarded commonwealth contracts worth billions of dollars

The Guardian - AU

‘Jobs for mates’: political appointments to government boards rife in Australia, report reveals

Grattan Institute report calls for fundamental reform after finding 21% of federal board positions were politically connected

The Guardian - AU

Attorney-General rejects calls to drop prosecution of ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle ahead of trial

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ruled out dropping charges against former ATO public-servant-turned-whistleblower Richard Boyle, who is set to face trial later this month.

ABC News

The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear

Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution.

The Conversation

Gareth Evans says conviction of Witness K should be reversed after Bernard Collaery decision

Former attorney general and foreign minister says prosecution of Witness K’s lawyer Collaery, now abandoned, was ‘indefensible’

The Guardian - AU

Child protection systems in Australia are 'in crisis', but some programs are making a positive difference

A model of out-of-home care involving professional therapists, and a Salvation Army program helping parents reunite with their children are examples of new ways of approaching child protection, and they're having a positive impact.

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Community legal services turn clients away amid funding shortfall as family violence spikes

Centres across Australia struggle with demand as sector awaits reforms indicated by attorney general Mark Dreyfus

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The Guardian - AU

Greens to seek changes to Labor’s integrity commission legislation to protect whistleblowers

David Shoebridge reveals suite of amendments including budgetary independence and lowering bar to investigations

The Guardian - AU

‘Witness K and Bernard Collaery are heroes’: how Australia made two men pay for its dirty secrets

Decision by new government to abandon prosecution prompts widespread relief from lawyers and supporters in Australia and Timor-Leste

The Guardian - AU

Justice for Bernard Collaery must be the beginning of decisive action on whistleblowers

It was hard to watch the bureaucratic machine perpetrating injustice – Mark Dreyfus must now intervene in the other two cases

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Bernard Collaery case is a rare whistleblower win, but why was he prosecuted?

Bernard Collaery had been facing five charges related to breaching the Intelligence Services Act for revealing Australia spied on Timor-Leste for profit.

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The Guardian - AU

Justice finally arrives for Bernard Collaery but damage has already been done

Mark Dreyfus’s announcement will mend relations with Timor-Leste but whistleblower protection reforms still sorely needed

The Independent UK

Australia drops charge against lawyer over spying claim

Australia’s new government has dropped the 4-year-old prosecution of a lawyer over his alleged attempt to help East Timor prove Australia spied on it during multibillion-dollar oil and gas negotiations

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Dreyfus ends prosecution of lawyer over alleged leaking about Australian spying in against Timor-Leste

The Albanese government has acted quickly to abandon the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, who was charged in relation to the leaking of information about Australia’s alleged spying in Timor-Leste.

The Guardian - AU

Prosecution of whistleblower lawyer Bernard Collaery dropped after decision by attorney general

Mark Dreyfus ordered the commonwealth DPP to discontinue case over alleged unlawful disclosure of classified information

ABC News

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus orders Commonwealth to drop charges against lawyer Bernard Collaery

Bernard Collaery was charged with helping his client, an ex-spy known only as Witness K, to reveal details of a classified ASIS mission in East Timor.

The Canberra Times

'Important day for democracy': Leaking charges against 'hero' Collaery to be dropped

The Canberra lawyer had been due to stand trial in October.

The Guardian - AU

Labor urged to bolster federal Icac plan with more protection for whistleblowers

Budgetary independence for corruption commission and wider ability to investigate also sought amid crossbench concern at omitted reforms

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