Race to 80 ~ The Australian Government Vaccination agenda.
Australia can end lockdowns and start to reopen its border once 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated – and we may be able to get there by the end of the year, according to a new Grattan Institute report. Race to 80: our best shot at living Read More …
Can the Victorian Government track you using a QR code?
Tracking a person can only be done by warrant. SURVEILLANCE DEVICES ACT 1999 – SECT 8 Regulation of installation, use and maintenance of tracking devices S. 8(1) amended by No. 26/2004 s. 7(a). (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not knowingly install, use or maintain a tracking device to determine Read More …
The implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution.
TODAY ~ The trial in the matter of Kerry Cotterill v Finn Romanes (in his capacity as the Deputy Public Health Commander) and Brett Sutton (in his capacity as Chief Health Officer) The trial will be heard before the Honourable Justice Richard Niall of the Supreme Court of Victoria from Thursday, July 29 and is Read More …
Census ~ Privacy ~ A history of the current practice
In the past, empires and nations often took regular censuses. From Babylon to China to India to Russia, governments needed to tax people and conscript soldiers, so they counted men. The practice of using data from a census to inform and direct policy—How much can the government spend on new roads or ships? Will the Read More …
Non pharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Non-healthcare Settings
Face Masks Identified in the below systematic review, 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza trans- mission with the use of face masks. One study Read More …
Constitutionally Inoculated to Resist Coercion
Dr Augusto Zimmermann is Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, and Professor of Law (Adjunct) at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney campus. Dr Zimmermann was chair and professor of constitutional law at Murdoch University from 2007 to 2017. He is also a former Law Reform Commissioner in Read More …
PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS CASE.
The Chief Justice said the words, “Civil Conscription” could be properly applied to any compulsion of law requiring that men should work in a specific way. The words in section 51 of the Constitution “so as not to impose any form of civil conscription” were intended to prevent not only civil conscription in the form of enrolment Read More …
