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Lawyers’ groups and civil liberties organisations have criticised the federal government’s planned overhaul of anti-terror legislation
NSW Council of Civil Liberties president Stephen Blanks said allowing terror suspects to be held for up to 14 days without charge and compiling a national database of drivers’ license photos goes too far. Blanks warned that proposed safeguards were insufficient, saying implicating judges in prolonged detention without charge was “a misuse of the position of the courts”. Labor leader Bill Shorten offered qualified support for the measures, saying Labor “takes a bipartisan approach to good ideas about keeping Australians safe”.
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper
