News
Media coverage, February 2015
1st Feb 2015
Just some of the media coverage generated by the Australian Lawyers Alliance or its members during the month of February 2015.
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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200 ACT public servants still off work as feds crackdown on compo
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 2015
Also published in the Canberra Times
LIV: abolish time limits for child abuse suits
Lawyers Weekly, 26 February 2015
Call for WA drivers to pay extra $100 a year for car accident compensation scheme
Prime 7, 24 February 2015
Also published in news.com.au, Daily Mail Australia, 9News.com.au, Courier Mail, Herald Sun and PerthNow
Lawyers back increase in WA car insurance
Yahoo News, 24 February 2015
Also published in Daily Telegraph, GWN7
Time limit hurdle for abuse victims to go
The Courier, 24 February 2015
Child sex abuse claim time limits to go in Victoria
ABC News online, 24 February 2015
Internet pirates won't be pursued under data retention scheme, says AFP
The Guardian, 24 February 2015
Lawyers back increase in WA car insurance
Yahoo News, 24 February 2015
Also published on Prime 7, news.com.au, Daily Mail Australia, 9News.com.au, Courier Mail, Herald Sun, GWN7, Perth Now, Daily Telegraph
Victoria is set to become the first jurisdiction to remove time limitations on child abuse victims
ABC 666 Canberra, 23 February 2015
Also broadcast on 105.7 ABC Darwin (Darwin), 612 ABC Brisbane (Brisbane), 702 ABC Sydney (Sydney), 720 ABC Perth (Perth), 774 ABC Melbourne (Melbourne), 891 ABC Adelaide (Adelaide), 936 ABC Hobart (Hobart), ABC Alice Springs (Alice Springs), ABC Ballarat (Ballarat), ABC Broken Hill (Broken Hill), ABC Capricornia (Rockhampton), ABC Central Victoria (Bendigo), ABC Central West NSW (Orange), ABC Coffs Coast (Coffs Harbour), ABC Esperance (Esperance), ABC Eyre Peninsula and West Coast (Port Lincoln), ABC Far North (Cairns), ABC Gippsland (Sale), ABC Gold Coast (Gold Coast), ABC Goldfields WA (Kalgoorlie), ABC Goulburn Murray (Wodonga), ABC Great Southern (Albany), ABC Illawarra (Wollongong), ABC Kimberley (Broome), ABC Midwest and Wheatbelt (Geraldton), ABC Mildura - Swan Hill (Mildura), ABC New England North West (Tamworth), ABC Newcastle (Newcastle), ABC North and West SA (Port Pirie), ABC North Coast NSW (Lismore), ABC North Queensland (Townsville), ABC North West Qld (Mt Isa), ABC North West WA (Karratha), ABC Northern Tasmania (Launceston), ABC Riverina (Wagga Wagga), ABC Riverland SA (Renmark), ABC Shepparton (Shepparton), ABC South East NSW (Bega), ABC South East SA (Mt Gambier), ABC South West WA (Bunbury), ABC South Western Victoria (Warrnambool), ABC Southern Queensland, Toowoomba), ABC Sunshine Coast (Sunshine Coast), ABC Tropical North (Mackay), ABC Upper Hunter (Muswellbrook), ABC Western Plains NSW (Dubbo), ABC Western Queensland (Longreach), ABC Western Victoria (Horsham), ABC Wide Bay (Bundaberg)
Will workers be safer through an expansion of Comcare?
Safetyatworkblog.com.au, 23 February 2015
Child abuse legal time limits to be lifted in Victoria
WA Today, 23 February 2015
Also published in the Courier Mail, Canberra Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Border Mail, Brisbane Times, Bendigo Advertiser, Mail Times, The Standard, The Courier
insurancenews.com.au, 23 February 2015
Child sex abuse claim time limits to go in Victoria
ABC Online, 23 February 2015
Jokowi spilling blood will do nothing to hinder the drug trade
Hobart Mercury, 23 February 2015
The Federal Government's proposed anti-terrorist data retention laws are driven by deflection politics
891 ABC Adelaide, 22 February 2015
Also broadcast on ABC 105.7, ABC Broken Hill (Broken Hill), ABC Eyre Peninsula and West Coast (Port Lincoln), ABC North and West SA (Port Pirie), ABC Riverland SA (Renmark), ABC South East SA (Mt Gambier), 774 ABC Melbourne, ABC Ballarat (Ballarat), ABC Central Victoria (Bendigo), ABC Gippsland (Sale), ABC Goulburn Murray (Wodonga), ABC Mildura - Swan Hill (Mildura), ABC Shepparton (Shepparton), ABC South Western Victoria (Warrnambool), ABC Western Victoria (Horsham), ABC Alice Springs (Alice Springs)
WHERE IT WENT WRONG FOR THE LNP
Brisbane Legal, 16 February 2015
Lawyers Weekly, 16 February 2015
Asylum seeker lawyers win ALA award
Lawyers Weekly, 16 February 2015
Potential execution of two of the Bali Nine
936 ABC Hobart, 16 February 2015
Abbott's terror comments could prejudice trial
ABC's The Drum, 13 February 2015
Legal experts defend Human Rights Commission​
Australian Financial Review, 13 February 2015
PM's parliamentary comments may affect terror trial
ABC NewsRadio (Melbourne), 13 February 2015
Also broadcast on ABC NewsRadio (Adelaide), ABC NewsRadio (Brisbane), ABC NewsRadio (Canberra), ABC NewsRadio (Gold Coast), ABC NewsRadio (Newcastle), ABC NewsRadio (Perth), ABC NewsRadio (Sydney)
Federal Government will face massive legal issues if it continues to keep children in detention
HO FM, 13 February 2015
Also broadcast on 7LA (Launceston), 1071 AM (Kingaroy), 4LG (Longreach)
ALA supports a Royal Commission into the children of asylum seekers being held in detention
Radio 4BC, 13 February 2015
Also broadcast on Radio 4KZ (Innisfail),, 3AW, 6PR, 6iX (Perth), HOT FM 91.1, Zinc FM Sunshine Coast (Sunshine Coast), 5AA
Lost the battle, but won the war
Brisbane Legal, 13 February 2015
ABC Rural, 11 February 2015
West Timor awaits Abbott Montara response
SBS, 9 February 2015
Also reported in The Sydney Morning Herald
Better one term of radical reform than an age of populist inertia
Hobart Mercury, 9 February 2015
Tas Government has dumped plans for new defamation laws
Southern Cross TV Hobart, 5 February
Hobart Mercury, 5 February 2015
‘Bali Two’ executions could set back Australia-Indonesia relations
The Conversation, 4 February 2015
ABC NewsRadio, 2 February 2015
Also broadcast on ABC NewsRadio (Adelaide), ABC NewsRadio (Brisbane), ABC NewsRadio (Canberra), ABC NewsRadio (Gold Coast), ABC NewsRadio (Melbourne), ABC NewsRadio (Newcastle), ABC NewsRadio (Perth)
Will Greste find press freedom here at home?
ABC's The Drum, 2 February 2015
A failed deterrent: Tackling the death penalty in Asia
Policy Forum, 1 February 2015
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