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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.
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 Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales was a court established in the early 19th century in the colony of New South Wales. The colony was subsequently to become a state of Australia in 1901. The court had jurisdiction to deal with civil disputes where the amount in dispute in the colony was more than £50 sterling.
On 6 May 2015, the NSW government rushed through the parliament, with all-party support, a bill to amend the Independent Commission Against Corruption Act; [29] the amendments were brought into effect immediately. The Independent Commission Against Corruption Amendment (Validation) Act 2015 (NSW) [30] does not simply reverse the Cunneen decision
Liberty, formerly, and still formally, called the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), [1] is an advocacy group and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, which challenges unjust laws, protects civil liberties and promotes human rights. It does this through the courts, in Parliament and in the wider community.
Pirate Party Australia is a political party in Australia that had traditionally represented civil liberty issues, but had also expanded into more traditional areas of policy. [4] It was a Pirate Party which was based on the Pirate Party of Sweden , and continued to develop a comprehensive policy platform since its formation based on the Pirate ...
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 ...