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New legislation giving judges the power to strip terrorists of their citizenship is being rushed into federal parliament this week, as the government tries to shore up its anti-terror regime in the wake of two recent High Court rulings.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Going off memory so someone please correct me but I think it was introduced by Howard and the excuse was national security, naturally. More specifically to keep secret any sensitive evidence that could compromise national security. I guess there is just no other solution to that other than to throw rule of law in the bin 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it's something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.