Police Powers
Vic Police revoke warrantless pat-down powers for inner Melbourne
Victoria Police have revoked a controversial decision to declare Melbourne's CBD a "designated area"...
Dechlan Brennan
9 Jan 2026
Placing armed, under-trained public service officers in shopping centres 'insulting and disingenuous'
A policy expanding Protective Services Officers' powers and deploying them in shopping centres over...
Lidia Thorpe tables letter from more than 100 experts condemning 'dangerous' welfare powers
A letter signed by more than 100 legal experts and community organisations criticising a bill that w...
Thorpe warns Labor’s welfare changes will ‘see children go hungry’
The government's last-minute addition to its social security bill, granting the Minister power to su...
NT Police to get power to search school kids under new laws
Proposed laws to be introduced in the Northern Territory would mean children as young as 10 could be...
Vic Police revoke warrantless pat-down powers for inner Melbourne
Victoria Police have revoked a controversial decision to declare Melbourne's CBD...
Dechlan Brennan
9 Jan 2026
Placing armed, under-trained public service officers in shopping centres 'insulting and disingenuous'
A policy expanding Protective Services Officers' powers and deploying them in sh...
Dechlan Brennan
25 Nov 2025
Lidia Thorpe tables letter from more than 100 experts condemning 'dangerous' welfare powers
A letter signed by more than 100 legal experts and community organisations criti...
Dechlan Brennan
24 Nov 2025
Thorpe warns Labor’s welfare changes will ‘see children go hungry’
The government's last-minute addition to its social security bill, granting the...
Dechlan Brennan
5 Nov 2025
NT Police to get power to search school kids under new laws
Proposed laws to be introduced in the Northern Territory would mean children as...
(A)manda Parkinson
7 Oct 2024
The peak Indigenous legal service in new South Wales has criticised new "rushed" knife laws in the state, arguing they will give police "extraordinary" powers to search people in public and will cause...
Tough laws designed to bar dangerous people from entering some of the most popular entertainment precincts in Boorloo/Perth will unfairly target Indigenous people, legal experts have warned.
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