News
Media coverage, August 2014
1st Aug 2014
Just some of the media coverage generated by the Australian Lawyers Alliance or its members during the month of August 2014.
Please note that some of the hotlinks listed below lead to subscriber-only content. ALA members who wish to know more about a particular article and who do not have subscriptions to those publications should contact Media Manager Nick Buchan at nick@lawyersalliance.com.au for a summary of that article.
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Concern over a new fee for convicted criminals
Southern Cross Tasmania TV News, 31 August 2014
Data retention critics alarmed by Australian federal police breach
The Guardian, 29 August 2014
No compo changes until inquiry completed
Launceston Examiner, 28 August 2014
Anti- protest law move under fire
Koori Mail, 27 August 2014
Scottish independence referendum
ABC Radio 936 Hobart, 26 August 2014
Greg Barns, 25 August 2014
Emily Moulton, Sunday Times, 24 August 2014
Also published on news.com.au, Perthnew.com.au
Lawyers call for scientific investigation into Montara Oil Spill
Laura Tchilinguirian, ABC Newsradio, 22 August 2014
Govt dismisses Montara probe
Illawarra Mercury, 22 August 2014
Fishermen’s Lawyer Demands Full Scientific Investigation into Oil Spill
Austrian Tribune, 21 August 2014
Aust rejects Indonesia's Montara entreaty
Gabrielle Dunlevy, news.com.au, 21 August 2014
Also published on couriermail.com.au, ninemsn, Hobart Mercury
Montara oil spill: Fishermen's lawyer calls for investigation into reports of skin disease
Felicity James, ABC Radio Australia, 21 August
Also published on Yahoo News
A related interview with ALA spokesperson Greg Phelps was also broadcast on ABC Newsradio
New Federal Government counter-terrorism proposals
SBS Ethnic Radio, 20 August 2014
Assange beaten
Australian Financial Review, 20 August 2014
Protesters demand that the Tasmanian Government ditch plans to subject protestors to on the spot fines and jail terms
Sky News Australia, 19 August 2014
Related stories also broadcast on 936 ABC Hobart, ABC Northern Tasmania
Letter to UN raises human rights issues
Launceston Examiner, 19 August 2014
Anti-leak laws target 'reckless' journalists (subscription only)
Ben Grubb, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 2014
Disabled call in lawyers to access NDIS (subscription only)
Jared Owens, The Australian, 18 August 2014
Democracy under threat in Tasmania
Antinuclear, 18 August 2014
Also published on Prime 7, Yahoo News
Greg Barns, Hobart Mercury, 18 August 2014
Pell to speak to Royal Commission
Prime 7, 18 August 2014
Also published in the Daily Liberal, Northern Daily Leader, Western Advocate, Cairns Post, Central West Daily
Roman Catholic Church's response to victims of child sexual abuse
3CR Melbourne, 18 August 2014
Hundreds of Tasmanians attend Hobart rally against State Government’s anti-protest laws’
David Benuik, Hobart Mercury, 17 August 2014
A similar story was also published in the Sunday Tasmanian
Hundreds of protestors are rallying outside Hobart City Hall
ABC Radio 702, 16 August 2014
This story was also broadcast on ABC Central Coast (Erina), ABC Central West NSW (Orange), ABC Coffs Coast (Coffs Harbour), ABC Illawarra (Wollongong), ABC New England North West (Tamworth), ABC North Coast NSW (Lismore), ABC Riverina (Wagga Wagga), ABC South East NSW (Bega), ABC Upper Hunter (Muswellbrook), ABC Western Plains NSW (Dubbo), Radio National (Sydney), Radio National (Newcastle), 666 ABC Canberra
A similar report was also published on ABC Hobart Television News
Abuse compo praise
Mornington Bulletin, 15 August 2014
Also published in the Queensland Times, Daily Mercury, the Daily News, Fraser Coast Chronicle, Gladstone Observer, Daily Examiner, News Mail, Northern Star, Gympie Times, Sunshine Coast Daily
Lawyers' warning for abuse victims
Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2014
A related story was also broadcast on SBS Ethnic Radio
Abuse victims could be bullied: lawyers
The Mercury, 14 August 2014
Also published on AAP newswire, The Sydney News, The Australian, Sky News, Geelong Advertiser, news.com.au, 9news.com.au, SBS.com.au
Lawyers up in arms over caps on sex abuse compo (subscription only)
Dan Box, The Australian, 14 August 2014
Felicity Nelson, Lawyers Weekly, 13 August 2014
NDIS forerunner beset with poor service, red tape: lawyers (subscription only)
Rick Morton, The Australian, 12 August 2014
Free speech phobics cling on (subscription only)
Nick Cater, The Australian, 12 August 2014
Also published in the Courier Mail
Yahoo News, 11 August 2014
Proposed anti-terror laws attack basic freedoms
John Passant, En Passant, 11 August 2014
Ben Schneiders, Sunday Age, 10 August 2014
Also published in The Sydney Morning Herald
New laws to crack down on bikies
Chris Vedelago, Sunday Age, 10 August 2014
Also published in The Sydney Morning Herald
Sending asylum seekers back home has cost taxpayers $3 million (subscription only)
Sarah Whyte, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 August 2014
Also published in The Age, WA Today, Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate
Emma Griffiths, ABC Online, 6 August 2014
You can listen to Greg Barns' interview here.
Also published on ABC Radio Australia
Concerns grow about broad reach of proposed spy powers
Tanya Nolan, ABC Radio National, 6 August 2014
Also broadcast from the following 59 stations: 612 ABC Brisbane, 666 ABC Canberra, 702 ABC Sydney, 720 ABC Perth, 774 ABC Melbourne, 891 ABC Adelaide, 936 ABC Hobart, ABC Alice Springs, ABC Ballarat, ABC Broken Hill, ABC Capricornia, ABC Central Coast, ABC Central Victoria, ABC Central West NSW, ABC Coffs Coast, ABC Darwin, ABC Esperance, ABC Eyre Peninsula and West Coast, ABC Far North, ABC Gippsland, ABC Gold Coast, ABC Goldfields WA, ABC Goulburn Murray, ABC Great Southern, ABC Great Southern WA, ABC Illawarra, ABC Kimberley, ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt, ABC Mildura - Swan Hill, ABC New England North West, ABC Newcastle, ABC North and West SA, ABC North Coast NSW, ABC North Queensland, ABC North West Qld, ABC North West WA, ABC Northern Tasmania, ABC Riverina, ABC Riverland SA, ABC Shepparton, ABC South East NSW, ABC South East SA, ABC South West WA, ABC South Western Victoria, ABC Southern Queensland, ABC Sunshine Coast, ABC Tropical North, ABC Upper Hunter, ABC Western Plains NSW, ABC Western Queensland, ABC Western Victoria, ABC Wide Bay, Radio National
Draconian anti-terrorism bid an affront to freedom
Greg Barnes, The Drum, 6 August
$3m bill to send asylum seekers home (subscription only)
The Australian, 5 August 2014
Also published on SBS.com.au, SkyNews.com.au, the Daily Barrier truth, Daily Advertiser, the Launceston Examiner, Cairns Post and Perth Now
Men bashed by police have a case for compensation
Patrick Boylen interview, Channel 7 TV News, 5 August 2014
Combatting the Snowden Effect: National interest and media freedom in Australia
Nicholas Williams, Index on Censorship, 5 August 2014
Cheered by populism, lazy politics kicks the vulnerable when they are down
Greg Barnes, Hobart Mercury, 4 August 2014
Cameron Lucadou-Wells, Greater Dandenong Weekly, 4 August 2014
Montarra’s Forgotten Victims
Fred McCue, Northern Territory News, 2 August 2014
Culture concerns in Families SA
Tony Kerin interview, ABC TV 7.30,1 August 2014
Proper Advice: The Impossible Dream
Law Institute Journal, 1 August 2014
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