Agents,lawyers and accountants could be forced to report suspicious transactions,as pressure mounts to make Australia less attractive for illicit funds.
The prime minister says the Solicitor-General’s advice “is very clear and it is unequivocal” but he doubts Peter Dutton’s fears will be allayed.
“Alan Johns”,a former Australian spy,was prosecuted and jailed in secret for mishandling classified information. Years later,a court has released its decision.
Liberal Julian Leeser invoked Stalin,George Orwell and former Chinese leader Hu Jintao as he railed against Labor’s clean-up of the tribunal that reviews government decisions.
Australia,once a leader of COVID-19 inquiries,foreign interference legislation and a ban on Huawei,has fallen back in the peloton.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said exceptions would only be granted on a case by case basis for the use of the Chinese-owned service.
How long before the Liberals hold their closing down sale,Labor becomes the dominant party and the once-derided Greens move to occupy the vacant sensible left?
It may have taken 10 years to become apparent,but the National Gallery of Australia is now bearing the costs of the ridiculously named “efficiency dividend”.
A judge has ruled that whistleblower protection laws do not extend to shielding public servants from prosecution over steps they take to gather evidence.
Eminent judge Paul Brereton,who ran the probe into alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan,has been appointed to head the first federal anti-corruption body.
Commonwealth shield laws failed to protest whistleblower Richard Boyle against prosecution and now Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus must stop him being sacrificed on a seemingly unalterable altar of law.