News
Media coverage, November 2014
1st Nov 2014
Just some of the media coverage generated by the Australian Lawyers Alliance or its members during the month of November 2014.
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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Calls to explore options outside Ashley
Sunday Examiner, 30 November 2014
Public service compo could cost more if legislation goes through
Canberra Times, 28 November 2014
Also published on Brisbane Times, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Sydney News
The AFP's new counter terrorism measures
Radio Adelaide, 27 November 2014
Police listened to lawyer-client phone call after Sydney counter-terrorism raid
The Guardian, 24 November 2014
Warnings on black market cigarettes
Newcastle Herald, 21 November 2014
ASIO knows what you did this winter
Australian National Review, 18 November 2014
Abbott's slavish pandering to the US odds with China links
Hobart Mercury, 17 November 2014
Barrister urges cannabis reform
Byron Shire News, 14 November 2014
Wassup, big bro
Byron Shire Echo, 11 November 2014
Cunneen loses bid to stop ICAC probe
Lawyers Weekly, 10 November 2014
Call for cigarette prohibition an idea that’s doomed to fail
Hobart Mercury, 10 November 2014
The AFP's worrying foray into politics
The Drum, 5 November 2014
Foreign Fighters Bill: wide open to abuse
The Guardian (CPA), 5 November 2014
Commission aims to right Wrongs Act
Insurancenews.com.au, 3 November 2014
Inquiries to be made into Tony Abbott and his Cabinet for crimes against humanity due to their treatment of asylum seekers
SKY News Australia, 3 November 2014
Also broadcast on SKY News Australia (Adelaide), SKY News Australia (Brisbane), SKY News Australia (Canberra), SKY News Australia (Melbourne), SKY News Australia (Perth), SKY News Australia (Regional NSW), SKY News Australia (Regional Queensland), SKY News Australia (Regional Victoria), SKY News Australia (Tasmania)
True horror story is drug prohibition, not growing ice addiction
Greg Barns, Hobart Mercury, 3 November 2014
Special report: Pot Luck
Australian Women's Health, 1 November 2014
Tasmanian govt votes on anti-protest bill
Green Left Weekly, 1 November 2014