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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.
[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".
Cowdery is president of the International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section), chair of the National Human Rights Committee of the Law Council of Australia, a director and patron of the Justice Reform Initiative, and a past president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The NSW Assistant Ombudsman determined that Yabsley's decision to ban two magazines produced in prison was illegal. [5] In 1988, The Bulletin included Yabsley on their list of the "100 most appalling people in Australia", noting that he had supported apartheid as a student and opining that he was "now borrowing [apartheid's] law enforcement and ...