Axioms of Aggression

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This ultimately found its expression in July 2002 in the form of the Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2002 (Cth), and a year later in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2003 (Cth).

‘Australia's Proposed Anti-Terrorism Laws’, The Law Report, ABC Radio National, 12 February 2002. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/stories/s479175.html, at 29 February 2008.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 20 March 2003, 13172 (Daryl Williams).

ASIO Statement to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Anti-terrorism Bill (No 2) 2005, 17 November 2005. Available at http://www.asio.gov.au/Media/Contents/slcl_committee_anti_terrorism_bill.aspx, at 29 February 2008.

Radnofsky

Louise

, ‘Terror detention extension a “charade”, say dissenting MPs’, The Guardian (London), 11 December 2007. Available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,2225701,00.html, at 29 February 2008.

Lynch

Andrew

, ‘Legislating with Urgency – The Enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act [No 1] 2005’, MULR 30(3) 2007: 747–781, 776.

Wright-Neville

David

, ‘Australia's Counter-terrorism Laws and the Assault on Politics’ in Davis

Tom

(ed), Human Rights 2003: The Year in Review (2004), 55–75, 60.

‘Lawyer hits out at ASIO raid speculation’, AM, ABC Radio National, 1 November 2003. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s980064.htm, at 29 February 2008.

AMCRAN (Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network), submission no 88 Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD Review of Division 3 Part III of the ASIO Act 1979: ASIO's Questioning and Detention Powers, 13–14. Available at http://www.aph.gov.au/HOUSE/committee/pjcaad/asio_ques_detention/subs/sub88.pdf, at 29 February 2008.

10.

Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network, submission no 157 Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No 2) 2005, 8. Available at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon.ctte/terrorism/submissions/sub157.pdf, at 29 February 2008.

11.

[2007] NSWSC 1251 (5 November 2007).

12.

Ibid [12].

13.

See R v Lodhi [2006] NSWSC 691 (23 August 2006). The decision was upheld on appeal: Lodhi v R [2007] NSWCCA 360 (20 December 2007).

14.

R v Ul-Haque [2007] NSWSC 1251, [13].

15.

Ibid [110].

16.

Neighbour

Sally

, ‘“Charge as many as possible”’, The Australian (Sydney), 13 November 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,23500,22747968-2,00.html, at 29 February 2008.

17.

Box

Dan

, ‘Keelty attacked for “court testing”’, The Australian (Sydney), 17 December 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22934582-2702,00.html, at 29 February 2008.

18.

R v Ul-Haque [2007] NSWSC 1251, [17].

19.

Ibid.

20.

Ibid [19].

21.

Ibid [21].

22.

Ibid [23].

23.

Ibid [46].

24.

Ibid [32].

25.

Ibid [29].

26.

Ibid [31].

27.

Ibid [34].

28.

Ibid [62].

29.

The secretary of the Federal Attorney-General's department did, however, complain to the Judicial Commission of New South Wales over this aspect of the ruling: Allard

Tom

, ‘Complaint filed against judge who slammed ASIO’, The Age (Melbourne) 26 December 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/12/25/1198345010234.html, at 29 February 2008. The Commission rejected the complaint: Noonan

Gerard

, ‘Judicial body rejects call to discipline judge’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 15 January 2008. Available at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/14/1200159363454.html, at 29 February 2008.

30.

See for example: Editorial, ‘Terror must be fought within the law’, The Age (Melbourne) 14 November 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/13/1194766674415.html, at 29 February 2008; Editorial, ‘ASIO's credibility now on trial’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 14 November 2007. Available at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/13/1194766671759.html, at 29 February 2008; Carlton

Mike

, ‘Bully for you, ASIO – the dumb face of intelligence’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 17 November 2007. Available at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/16/1194766964928.html, at 29 February 2008.

31.

O'Brien

Natalie

, ‘Spying on the spies’, The Australian (Sydney) 14 November 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22754199-28738,00.html, at 29 February 2008.

32.

See R v Mallah [2005] NSWSC 358 (11 February 2005). Wood CJ at CL held that the evidence in question was nevertheless admissible, but Mallah was acquitted of the terrorism offences in any event.

33.

See R v Thomas [2006] VSCA 165 (18 August 2006).

34.

Ibid [78].

35.

Ibid [78].

36.

Skehan

Craig

May

Julia

and Dhillon

Amrit

, ‘Haneef case descends into farce’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 21 July 2007. Available at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/20/1184560040251.html, at 29 February 2008.

37.

For the photograph see Ricketson

Matthew

, ‘Age writer, photographers take out Walkley awards’, The Age (Melbourne) 30 November 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/29/1196037074775.html, at 18 December 2007.

38.

‘Haneef granted bail’, The World Today, ABC Local Radio, 16 July 2007. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1979473.html, at 18 December 2007.

39.

Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), s 15AA.

40.

Migration Act 1958 (Cth), s 501(6)(b).

41.

[2001] FCA 1552.

42.

Haneef v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2007] FCA 1273 (21 August 2007), [230], [256]–[258].

43.

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v Haneef [2007] FCAFC 203 (21 December 2007), [132]. See also [134]. This contrasts with the position of Spender J at first instance, who found it was possible that an application of the correct test may not have led Andrews to a different decision: Haneef v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2007] FCA 1273 (21 August 2007), [261].

44.

‘Interview on ABC News Radio’, Rolling News (Early AM), ABC News Radio. Transcript available at http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/media-releases/2007/ka_transcript_0732.html, at 2 December 2007.

45.

Thomas

Hedley

, ‘Secret Haneef plan exposed’, The Australian (Sydney), 2 November 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22688973-601,00.html, at 19 December 2007.

46.

‘Andrews reveals reasons for Haneef visa cancellation’, The 7.30 Report, ABC Television, 31 July 2007. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1993449.htm, at 19 December 2007.

47.

‘Haneef interview transcript released’, ABC News, 22 August 2007. Available at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2997/98/22/2012198.htm, at 19 December 2007.

48.

Dhillon

Amrit

, ‘Australian authorities vitimised me: Haneef’, The Age (Melbourne), 30 July 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/30/1185647775747.html, at 19 December 2007.

49.

Smiles

Sarah

, and Marriner

Cosima

, ‘PM defiant: No visa and no apology’, The Age (Melbourne), 31 July 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/30/1185647828688.html, consulted 19 December 2007.

50.

Allard

Tom

, ‘Ministers sent report on Habib abuse’, The Age (Melbourne), 1 December 2007. Available at http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/30/1106394625496.html, at 19 December 2007.

51.

‘Mamdouh Habib released from Guantanamo Bay’, The 7.30 Report, ABC Television, 27 January 2005. Transcript available at http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1290923.htm, at 29 February 2008.

52.

Thomas

Hedley

, ‘Rudd to set up Haneef inquiry’, The Australian (Sydney), 7 December 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22882983-5001561,00.html, at 22 December 2007.

53.

‘Labor supports Haneef visa cancellation’, The Australian (Sydney), 16 July 2007. Available at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22083039-1702,00.html, at 22 December 2007.

54.

Debs

, Vol 882, col 743, 28 November 1974, Lyons Mr .

55.

Bunyan

Tony

, The Political Police in Britain (2007), 54.

56.

Hillyard

Paddy

, Suspect Community: People's Experience of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in Britain (1993).

57.

Ibid 124.

58.

Ibid 158–159.

59.

Ibid 260 (emphasis in original).

60.

See Pickering

Sharon

, Counter-Terrorism Policing and Culturally Diverse Communities: Final Report 2007 (2007), 110–111.

61.

Hillyard , above n 56, 261.

62.

White

Robert W

, ‘From Peaceful Protest to Guerrilla War: Micromobilization of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’, (1989) 94(6) American Journal of Sociology 1277–1302, 1282.

63.

Ibid 1288–1289.

64.

Ibid 1294.

65.

David Wright-Neville, above n 7, 59–60.

66.

Ibid 59.

67.

Wright-Neville, above n 7, 64, 75.

68.

See Kydd

Andrew H

, and Walter

Barbara F

, ‘The Strategies of Terrorism’ (2006) 31(1) International Security 49–80, 54–55.

69.

Pickering , above n 60, 104–114.