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| Subject: Never enough: OZschwitz spooks ask for detention powers without warrant from judge Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:09 pm | |
| ASIO has proposed scrapping the need for judge-approved warrants to detain and question Australians for up to a week without charge in terrorism investigations, in a watering down of safeguards that has alarmed lawyers and rights advocates.
The power to grant the security agency a controversial "questioning and detention warrant" would rest instead with the Attorney-General – a situation the Law Council of Australia has branded "unprecedented".
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asio-asks-for-detention-powers-without-warrant-from-judge-20160826-gr2bxi.html |
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