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The NSW Council for Civil Liberties was established in the closing months of 1963. The organisation came into being in response to a police raid on a Kings Cross party, a raid without a warrant. Among the partygoers was Ken Buckley, a Senior Lecturer in Economic History at University of Sydney.
He is best known for his role as the President of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties from 1999 to 2013 and was endorsed as the ALP candidate in the seat of East Hills for the March 2015 and March 2019 NSW state elections, which he narrowly lost. He was the seventh person elected to the NSW Legislative Council at the 2023 NSW state election.
During his time at Sydney University, the young and idealistic Staples became a member of the Australian Communist Party. [1] In 1951, he witnessed the High Court of Australia overturn the Menzies government's attempted ban of the party in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth, an action which instilled in him the power of the judiciary to uphold civil liberties.
Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
A foundation vice-president of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties from 1935, Barry became the foundation secretary of the Medico-Legal Society of Victoria. [ 1 ] In 1939, Barry joined the Australian Labor Party and ran, unsuccessfully, for the federal seat of Balaclava in the electoral year of 1943 .
Simpson served as an associate to a District Court judge. It was here that she realised her passion for law, stating: "I got hooked." [3]She was a member of the University of Sydney Law Extension Committee from 1972–76, an Officer of the Department of Youth and Community Services from 1974–76, President of the Society of Labor Lawyers, and President of the Council for Civil Liberties from ...
The report concluded: "Cessation of the program would eliminate the privacy and civil liberties concerns associated with bulk collection without unduly hampering the government's efforts, while ensuring that any governmental requests for telephone calling records are tailored to the needs of specific investigations." [13]
AMCRAN joined the Civil Rights Network and other civil liberties organisations in campaigning against the powers of the Australian anti-terrorism legislation, 2004. In July 2004 AMCRAN produced and distributed, in cooperation with the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, [3] Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You. The Pamphlet provides advice to ...