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Laws lack checks: experts.

Australasian Business Intelligence, July, 2007

Byline: Connie Levett

Jul 04, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A legal expert, Professor Clive Walker, claims that Australia's anti-terrorism laws lack some of the crucial aspects of British laws. According to Professor Walker, many of the Australian laws for fighting terrorism are modelled on those adopted in the UK. However, he says the British laws are moderated by the 1998 Human Rights Act. Andrew Lynch, a director of the University of New South Wales's terrorism and law project, says that Australia is the last western democracy lacking a charter of rights, which means that when Australia adopts terrorism laws from the UK it does so in a different context.

Publication Date: 5 July 2007

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