Meanwhile, down south one slips past the keeper
Richard Ackland; 18/7/08
In the very day this week that the full Federal Court was ever so gently reading up our rights by doing away with the World Youth Day regulation that clumsily sought to protect “pilgrims” from annoyance, a different bench of the court in Melbourne was reading down our rights, with much more serious and fundamental implications. That court confirmed the right of the Federal Government to interfere in decisions affecting the basic human rights of Australian citizens. We enter the province of the Attorney-General’s magic certificates in so-called security cases. Syed Mustapha Hussain is the man at the eye of this storm. He’s a 24-year-old Australian citizen. He came to this country with his family in 1991, went to school in Melbourne and enrolled in a bachelor of medical science degree course at La Trobe University.
Tags: Australia, Human Rights, Terrorism