News
Media coverage, March 2015
1st Mar 2015
Just some of the media coverage generated by the Australian Lawyers Alliance or its members during the month of March 2015.
Please note that some of the hotlinks listed below lead to subscriber-only content. ALA members who wish to know more about a particular article and who do not have subscriptions to those publications should contact Media Manager Nick Buchan at nick@lawyersalliance.com.au for a summary of that article.
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Big end of town wanted Comcare gutted
Namoi Valley Independent, 31 March 2015
Also published in the Merimbula News
Are we too precious about our approach to drugs in sport?
PerthNow, 30 March 2015
Anti-terrorism laws have made our nation a security state
Hobart Mercury, 30 March 2015
National firm poaches SA veteran for new office
Lawyers Weekly, 30 March 2015
Sunday Tasmanian, 29 March 2015
Sunday Times, 29 March 2015
Hundreds of bikies have united in a show of force
Channel Nine News, Perth, 28 March 2015
Also broadcast on WIN Western Australia (Perth)
Report on the Child Abuse Royal Commission
ABC Radio National Canberra, 27 March 2015
Also broadcast on Radio National (Adelaide), Radio National (Brisbane), Radio National (Darwin), Radio National (Hobart), Radio National (Melbourne), Radio National (Newcastle), Radio National (Perth), Radio National (Sydney), 105.7 ABC Darwin (Darwin), 612 ABC Brisbane (Brisbane), 702 ABC Sydney (Sydney), 720 ABC Perth (Perth), 774 ABC Melbourne (Melbourne), 891 ABC Adelaide (Adelaide), 936 ABC Hobart (Hobart), ABC Alice Springs (Alice Springs), ABC Ballarat (Ballarat), ABC Broken Hill (Broken Hill), ABC Capricornia (Rockhampton), ABC Central Coast (Erina), ABC Central Victoria (Bendigo), ABC Central West NSW (Orange), ABC Coffs Coast (Coffs Harbour), ABC Esperance (Esperance), ABC Eyre Peninsula and West Coast (Port Lincoln), ABC Far North (Cairns), ABC Gippsland (Sale), ABC Gold Coast (Gold Coast), ABC Goldfields WA (Kalgoorlie), ABC Goulburn Murray (Wodonga), ABC Great Southern (Albany), ABC Great Southern WA (Wagin), ABC Illawarra (Wollongong), ABC Kimberley (Broome), ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt (Geraldton), ABC Mildura - Swan Hill (Mildura), ABC New England North West (Tamworth), ABC Newcastle (Newcastle), ABC North and West SA (Port Pirie), ABC North Coast NSW (Lismore), ABC North Queensland (Townsville), ABC North West Qld (Mt Isa), ABC North West WA (Karratha), ABC Northern Tasmania (Launceston), ABC Riverina (Wagga Wagga), ABC Riverland SA (Renmark), ABC Shepparton (Shepparton), ABC South East NSW (Bega), ABC South East SA (Mt Gambier)m ABC South West WA (Bunbury), ABC South Western Victoria (Warrnambool), ABC Southern Queensland (Toowoomba), ABC Sunshine Coast (Sunshine Coast), ABC Tropical North (Mackay), ABC Upper Hunter (Muswellbrook), ABC Western Plains NSW (Dubbo), ABC Western Queensland (Longreach), ABC Western Victoria (Horsham), ABC Wide Bay (Bundaberg)
ALA ‘extremely disappointed’ by child abuse compo rejection
Lawyers Weekly, 27 March 2015
GOVERNMENT 'FAILING VICTIMS OF CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT'
Brisbane Legal, 27 March 2015
All eyes on Aust's beef with the bishop’
Daily Mail Australia, 26 March 2015
Will Comcare overhaul help ease premium costs for agencies?
The Mandarin, 26 March 2015
The Australian Lawyers Alliance has spoken out against the Federal Government's proposed changes to Comcare
666 ABC Canberra, 26 March 2015
Also broadcast on Radio National (Canberra), 936 ABC Hobart, ABC Northern Tasmania (Launceston), Radio National (Hobart), Radio national (Adelaide)
Comcare faces widespread changes to 'modernise' public service workers' compensation
ABC News online, 26 March 2015
Crims owe state $2m in levies
Hobart Mercury, 26 March 2015
Govt crackdown on PS compo
Canberra Times, 26 March 2015
Public servants stripped of compo rights in Comcare crackdown
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2015
Also published in the Namoi Valley Independent
WA mulls changes to car insurance
Autotalk, 24 March 2015
Moss Review: lawyers say Comcare must ensure detention centre health and safety
The Mandarin, 24 march 2015
ALA warns of asylum seeker compo claims
Lawyers Weekly, 23 March 2015
Hard-line law and order policy fails to rehabilitate or cut crime
Hobart Mercury, 23 March 2015
Peter Dutton can ‘play God’ with refugees’ lives
Green Left Weekly, 21 March 2015
Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2015
Also published in the Moyne Gazette, The Age
All eyes on Aust's beef with the bishop
Daily Mail Australia, 20 March 2015
Inquiry focus falls on scandal-hit Newcastle diocese
The Australian, 19 March 2015
Interview with Andrew Morrison SC, Australian Lawyers Alliance, about abuse.
Radio National, Canberra, 18 March 2015
Also broadcast on Radio National (Adelaide), Radio National (Brisbane), Radio National (Darwin), Radio National (Hobart), Radio National (Melbourne), Radio National (Newcastle), Radio National (Perth), Radio National (Sydney)
The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, who has been charged with concealing child sexual abuse
ABC 702 Sydney, 18 March 2015
Also broadcast on ABC Central Coast (Erina)
NSW Police have relied on a rarely used section of the crimes act to charge Adelaide's Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson
ABC Radio Newcastle, 18 March 2015
Also broadcast on ABC Upper Hunter (Muswellbrook), ABC Coffs Coast, ABC Mid North Coast (Taree), ABC North Coast NSW, ABC Illawarra
Victorians must resist police pressure to adopt bikie laws
Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 2015
Also published in WA Today, Brisbane Times
Julian Assange, Founder, WikiLeaks, has welcomed the decision by Swedish prosecutors
SBS Ethnic Radio, 17 March 2015
PerthNow, 15 March 2015
Sorting the pulp fiction from fact
Hobart Mercury, 14 March 2015
Telling the truth about Kathy Jackson
Independent Australia, 13 March 2015
Sex offender's alleged online brag prompts class action from Tasmanian sexual assault advocate
ABC News online, 10 March 2015
The Australian Lawyers Alliance has described the class action being taken on behalf of all sexual abuse victims as 'over the top'.
936 ABC Hobart, 10 March 2015
Also broadcast on Radio National (Hobart)
The Lawyers' Alliance says it is appalled by the case of a Hobart sex offender
936 ABC Hobart, 10 March 2015
Also broadcast on Radio National (Hobart)
Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2015
The Examiner, 9 March 2015
Posts on Facebook by a convicted paedophile have prompted legal action
ABC TV Hobart, 9 March 2015
Class action aimed at restricting the online activities of convicted pedophiles is bound to fail
936 ABC Radio Hobart, 9 March 2015
Also broadcast on ABC Northern Tasmania (Launceston), Radio National (Hobart)
Northern suburbs light rail proposal little more than fantasy
Hobart Mercury, 9 March 2015
SA Government has announced a shake-up of the state's legal system
ABC TV News Adelaide, 7 March 2015
Can the ACT create better value workers compensation scheme?
The Mandarin, 6 March 2015
'Upsizing' not for Comcare: WorkSafe ACT cmr
Workers Compensation Report 1007, 3 March 2015
View from the Street: George Brandis stars in Censure & Censurability
The Age, 2 March 2015
Also published in the Sydney Morning Herald
More heroics from Triggs as she stays strong in face of bullies
Hobart Mercury, 2 March 2015
Abbott, leave Gillian Triggs alone
Lawyers Weekly, 1 March 2015
Legal challenge to refugee policy
Sunday Age, 1 March 2015
Also published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Warrnambool Standard
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