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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

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

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‘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

The Guardian - AU

With the persecution of Collaery ended, it’s time to hold the perpetrators to account

Bernard Collaery’s legal ordeal has been ended by Mark Dreyfus, but those responsible for our actions in Timor-Leste must be pursued.

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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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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 Guardian - AU

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

The Independent UK

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.

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Finally — Collaery prosecution brought to an end by new government

Bernard Collaery, former attorney-general of the ACT, will no longer face charges for disclosing confidential information about the bugging of the Timor-Leste cabinet.

Crikey

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

The Guardian - AU

Whistleblower leaking charges dropped

Leaking charges against lawyer Bernard Collaery relating to an alleged Australian spying operation will be dropped after the attorney-general intervened.

Crikey

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.

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'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

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: hospital recruitment failure, Albanese’s climate plea, row over Trump’s alleged car ‘lunge’

Thursday: A scheme to recruit an extra 2,000 doctors and nurses from abroad assisted just 24 people. Plus: record-breaking rainfall expected

The Guardian - AU

Labor-led Senate inquiry to call for axing of Liberal-dominated AAT

Mark Dreyfus ‘cannot have confidence’ in current make-up of Administrative Appeals Tribunal, but won’t be drawn on recommendation to scrap body

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The Guardian - AU

Power to ban citizens from re-entering Australia questioned after high court decision on dual nationals

Green senator says argument court used to overturn power to strip citizenship could also apply to temporary exclusion order regime

The Guardian - AU

Bridget Archer ‘keen to be involved’ in establishing federal anti-corruption body

Moderate Liberal MP says Albanese government has opportunity to make parliament more collaborative

ABC News

The Loop: Ukraine prepares for more attacks, A-G 'deeply concerned' by ABC revelations, and debate over energy scheme

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Attorney-General, minister 'deeply concerned' by 'horrific' findings of ABC's child protection investigation

Federal leaders say they will hold a meeting with the National Children's Commissioner to determine action to protect children after an ABC investigation reveals youths in care are being raped and neglected.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese government urged to end legal fight over power to deport Aboriginal people

Greens senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to pull appeal launched by Morrison government, saying Indigenous people ‘cannot be aliens to this country’

The Guardian - AU

Federal court strikes down key part of Coalition’s crackdown on class action funding

Labor says decision called into question the legal basis for former government’s ‘absurd attempt to regulate funded class actions out of existence’

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese backflips on national cabinet secrecy and refuses to say why

PM opts to continue to prevent release of documents related to meetings with state leaders despite his previous criticism of the practice

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