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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 1999–2013 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.
Later in the 1960s he became a founding member NSW Council for Civil Liberties (CCL), which included prominent members of the NSW legal profession such as Maurice Byers and Neville Wran. [10] Staples took on numerous briefs assigned to him by the CCL, many of them pro bono, advocating for freedoms in areas of human rights. [2]
[4]: 183–186 Writing to the Ombudsman, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties said, "It is the view of the [Council] that it is an invasion of privacy, harassment, and an illegal search to use dogs to sniff people chosen randomly".
He became President of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties "but within weeks" he was then appointed Justice of the New South Wales Supreme Court. Hope was finally made a Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the New South Wales judiciary system in 1972, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.
East Hills Labor candidate Cameron Murphy alleged he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign, involving leaflets and stickers branding the civil libertarian as a "paedophile lover" because of his work as president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
She is a current board member and former Vice President of the Council for Civil Liberties. Cassandra was one of the founding members of FBi Radio and served as President from 1997 to 2021. [citation needed] Wilkinson was a freight expert, holding the position of Director, Rail and Freight Policy in the New South Wales Ministry of Transport. [10]
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Human Rights Law Centre, Environmental Defender's Office NSW, Australian Democracy Network, and Reverend Tim Costello also issued a joint press release criticising the Bill as an attempt "to rush through a draconian anti-protest law, which could see peaceful community protesters jailed for up to two years". [11]