Ombudsman wants to monitor warrantless metadata access

What the Fuck????? The commonwealth Ombudsman is so fucking dodgy that its already pissing on 80% of people who makes complaints to them . The Commonwealth Ombudsman needs the biggest carrot in the bag to sit on!!!!

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Requests ability to report publicly.

Australia’s Commonwealth Ombudsman has put up his hand to monitor the collection of telecommunications metadata by the country’s law enforcement agencies, as part of potential reforms to national surveillance legislation.
In a parliamentary hearing on prospective changes to Australia’s Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, the office of Ombudsman Colin Neave - which inspects the records of law enforcement agencies in relation to their use of covert powers  - offered itself up to act as an oversight body for the accessing of metadata.
Law enforcement agencies are currently able to seek non-content telecommunications data without requiring a warrant, thanks to amendments relating to metadata made to the TIA Act in 2007.
To actually access the content of a telephone call or stored email, a warrant is required - a function that attracts the oversight of the Commonwealth Ombudsman.
Neave and his team wants their powers extended to include oversight of metadata access, which last year hit a record of 291,501 authorisations, according to the Attorney-General’s Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act annual report. That figure is up significantly compared to 243,631 metadata authorisations the year prior.
In comparison, 3764 telecommunications interception warrants were lodged for full content of communications.
Ombudsman Colin Neave acknowledged the “significant” impact such new responsibilities would have on his office’s resources, but said there were several ways to tackle the issue.
“[We would] work out an appropriate sampling program - that would be the normal approach to a volume responsibility along those lines,” he told the committee.
Another potential approach would be to look at policy and risk mitigation processes - rather than specific records - within an agency to ensure the issue requiring metadata access had been given appropriate consideration, he said.
“Looking at high level processes in combination with doing a sample may alleviate some risks from not looking at a greater number.”
Neave also repeated his earlier calls for the introduction of a public reporting mechanism to improve transparency.
The Ombudsman currently reports into the Attorney-General’s office on inspection matters relating to telecommunications interceptions, access to stored communications, surveillance devices, and controlled covert operations.
Neave said the ability for his office to publicly report on whether agencies had used their powers lawfully would play a key role in providing accountability and transparency.
“If we were able to report publicly it would align with our other reporting responsibilities under the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, Part IAB of the Crimes Act 1914, and other legislative oversight roles," Neave said.
"We also note the Law Council, the NSW Ombudsman and the Inspector-General of Intelligence have supported consideration of introducing a public reporting mechanism."
The controversial legislative powers around metadata access have drawn criticism for allowing agencies to “vacuum up” large amounts of personally identifiable data from the country’s citizens.
Committee chair and Greens MP Scott Ludlam has been a vocal campaigner against the practice, and was the driver behind the Government’s decision to investigate “comprehensive revision” to the TIA Act through the current Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee.
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Julian Assange and Swedens's Sex Laws
Clearly the sex laws are fucked  in Sweden and difficult to understand.
Nobody made a complaint to police over Assange so what went wrong?
Clearly the wording of legislation may be bizare but the underlying principal  in a criminal matter is the all  basic elements  of a crime must be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Laws are written by Parliament who have no fucking idea what they are passing and applied by Dodgy Magistrates, Judges  and prosecutors who fail to  prove the elements   are correctly  proven.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 13/03/2015

Reporter: Report by Mary Gearin

Under the so-called Nordic model, police prosecute those who pay for sex, rather than the sex workers themselves. But some who work in the trade say the law actually works against them.

Transcript

EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Sex work, it is a job like any other or an activity that exploits women? The answers to that question s will depend on whether you believe sex work should be banned altogether.

The US State Department links prostitution with people trafficking and concludes, that prostitution is inherently harmful and dehumanising and fuels tracking in persons.

Across Europe, Sweden stands out as the country with a relatively low number of sex workers. In 1999, the Swedish Government became the first in the world to make it a crime to buy sex, but not to sell it.

Statistics on prostitution are unreliable, it's not the kind of thing people will necessarily tell the truth about in surveys, but a 2010 study found that street prostitution in Sweden has been halved since the prohibition was introduced.

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting the so called Nordic model. British MEP Mary Honeyball led debate in support of the Swedish system.

She said it punishes men who treat women's bodies as a commodity, without criminalising women who are driven into sex work.

The ABC's Europe correspondent Mary Gearin travelled to Sweden to witness firsthand how the law has changed lives.

KARINA EDLAND, SEX WORKER: It's such a great part of my life, even though some parts hasn't been happy happy, joy joy, I'm proud of what I'm doing.

MARY GEARIN, REPORTER: In theory, Karina Edland is free to be a sex worker without penalty. Her country is now famous for the system that has turned on its head the relationship between prostitution and criminality, a system where the buyers of sex are hunted and charged.

MARIE JOHANSSON, COUNSELLOR, PROJECT KAST: We don't think it's right that someone is buying another body, another human being.

MARY GEARIN: The laws are supposed to both protest prostitutes and dismantle their trade, but after a decade and a half, are the laws working on either front?

BEATRICE UNANDER-SCHARIN, ROKS, WOMEN'S SHELTER GROUP: I would say that it is a success that the Swedish Government has seen our view on violence against women and made that into law.

PEYE JAKOBSSON, SEX WORKER'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST: I think Sweden is excellent at doing PR. I think Sweden is maybe not so interested in evidence.

MARY GEARIN: The way it works in Sweden is this: A prostitute can arrange to meet a client, the client, if caught, faces a fine of 50 days' pay, unless another crime is involved like pimping or running a brothel. The client is also offered counselling. The prostitute faces no charge. Supporters of the law say the stigma of prostitution has now shifted onto the client, but buying sex has become socially unacceptable in Sweden.

But how is such a law policed? One of the handful of cops in Stockholm's prostitution unit tells me it's all old school.

JONAS HENRIKSON, POLICE OFFICER: Every shift we need to go out, so we only work in the field.

MARY GEARIN: Jonas Henrikson draws on his form every life in the narcotics unit to track down clients, mostly men. By monitoring the very law that people say are free to go about their business, the prostitutes.

JONAS HENRIKSON, POLICE OFFICER: We sit here and watch the buyers approach, and then we filter them out, so to speak, we look for different telltales.

MARY GEARIN: What are those telltales?

JONAS HENRIKSON, POLICE OFFICER: Not going to tell you.

MARY GEARIN: Henrikson says between stakeouts and cruising the streets, he can make between five and 15 arrests a night.

JONAS HENRIKSON, POLICE OFFICER: Ninety-nine per cent of the cases the girls tell us exactly how it was, how much the man paid and what they were doing. And usually the man admits as well to the crime, they confess.

MARY GEARIN: Is there a paradox there that you are hunting for these women and the things that they are doing but the women are not the criminals, the men are?

JONAS HENRIKSON: To me, yeah it was a paradox in the beginning, but then I understood that when they wrote the law, they actually managed to implement the fact that men buying sex from women is equal to men's violence against women, and they actually managed to put that into the law, and with that reasoning it's kind of obvious, if a woman is being used and being in such a bad situation that she has to sell herself to get money, then is it really fair to punish her?

MARY GEARIN: Henrikson says Sweden has become much less attractive for human traffickers and the laws have strengthened links between sex workers and police.

JONAS HENRIKSON: Actually having a communication with the girls and they seem to trust the police in a good way.

MARY GEARIN: But Karina tells a very different story.

KARINA EDLAND: I did a stupid thing and got raped, and I couldn't call the police because I didn't want the police to target me for... because the thing that happens is that they don't target the clients, they target us to spot the clients.

MARY GEARIN: Karina isn't showing her face, she says, because of the increased stigma coming from the laws designed, after all, to wipe out her trade.

KARINA EDLAND: I always say to my colleague, it's better if you put us in a row or in a line and just machine us down, because my opinion of Sweden is they don't want us here.

MARY GEARIN: Former sex worker, Peye Jakobsson is an outspoken critic of the system that she says has made prostitution more dangerous.

PEYE JAKOBSSON: We have three different laws controlling our homes, so if we rent an apartment, and sell sex in our apartment, the landlord is forced to evict us or he may risk of being charged with pimping.

If we own our apartment, we have lost our right to own it if we sell sex in it.

So the only way you can work and only be affected by the law criminalising client is selling sex in the street or going to the client's home which would be two of the more riskier ways to work.

MARY GEARIN: It seems everyone agrees prostitutes need greater support from a social service system that still harbours prejudice, especially about mothers in the sex trade.

BEATRICE UNANDER-SCHARIN: I see women in prostitution, the same as I see women in domestic violence situations and they are not being in domestic violence doesn't mean you're a bad mother, and being in prostitution doesn't mean you're a bad mother, so that attitude needs to change.

MARY GEARIN: But from her experience working with women's shelters, Beatrice Unander-Scharin is convinced that the laws are right because prostitution is wrong.

BEATRICE UNANDER-SCHARIN: It's usually in every case that I have heard of and seen there has been something that has made the choice not a choice. It is a choice without an alternative and that's not a real choice.

MARY GEARIN: It's not clear the laws have actually succeeded in decreasing demand for prostitution. The law's supporters point to the red light district of Stockholm. It's nothing like it used to be.

Maree Johansson says the success is measurable, not in numbers but in attitude. She counsels both clients and sex workers and says the culture around the sex trade has fundamentally changed.

MARIE JOHANSSON: I haven't met a happy buyer, and I haven't met a happy seller, so...

MARY GEARIN: You wouldn't, though, would you?

MARIE JOHANSSON: No, I wouldn't, but anyway, at least we meet a lot of them; and they need help and they think the law is very good, actually.

MARY GEARIN: As more countries look at Sweden's model, Karina warns a system that seems like protection is becoming marginalisation.

KARINA EDLAND: It doesn't care about us. Sweden isn't like proud of having us.


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Ex Supreme Court Judge and NSW Attorney General linked to foreign bribery scandal

Clearly John Dowd should have known better!!!

Australia's second ever foreign bribery investigation is launched by the Federal Police into a Sydney-based construction company with links to some of Australia's most notorious terrorists. Australia's second ever foreign bribery investigation has been launched into a Sydney-based construction company with links to some of Australia's most notorious terrorists. After a series of raids in Sydney last week, federal police charged the directors of construction company Lifese - Mamdouh and Ibrahim Elomar - with foreign bribery offences.It is alleged the two attempted to bribe Iraqi government officials in order to secure multi-million-dollar contracts there.Mamdouh's son, Mohammed, is one of Australia's most wanted terrorists, infamous for posing with the severed heads of victims believed to have been killed by Islamic radicals in Syria.Mamdouh's other brother, Mohammed Ali Elomar, is in jail for one of Australia's largest terror plots.Within hours of the AFP's raids on the firm's offices last Thursday, the former opposition leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, John Dowd, resigned as chairman of Lifese where he was a director for over six years. Earlier this week AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin confirmed it was only the second foreign bribery case to reach the courts."The AFP holds 14 active foreign bribery investigations at the moment," he said."Of those though, only 13 have foreign bribery as a primary offence and I will say that of those 14 only nine are publicly known at this stage."Two matters are at court and neither are resolved."No charges have been laid against Mr Dowd, and the ABC makes no suggestion of legal impropriety on his part.The former NSW attorney-general and retired Supreme Court judge confirmed to the ABC he had resigned from the Lifese board but was unable to comment further as the matter was before the courts.Foreign bribery case a 'wake-up call' to company directorsNeville Tiffen, director with Transparency International Australia and former head of global compliance for Rio Tinto, said it was the duty of directors to ensure their company was abiding by the law."Having another prosecution in Australia for foreign bribery really should be a wake-up call to all directors and executives, both listed and non-listed companies," he said."If I was a director of any company I'd be really checking my compliance programs, not just for the sake of the company but for the sake of the shareholders and even for my own sake."The chairman as, if you like, the senior director, it's obvious he's in a pivotal position to guide the company."He should be making sure the board is asking the right questions of management, really testing out management, really making sure they're digging deep and to find out any weak spots in the processes." The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been critical of Australia's handling of foreign bribery matters.The director of Melbourne University's centre for corporate law, Professor Ian Ramsay, said Australia had been "on notice for quite some years now"."To some degree the Government has responded," he said."For example, several years ago they substantially increased the penalties where it is proven that someone engages in bribery of a foreign public official, but there's more to the issue here than simply increasing the penalties or having strong law on the books."At the same time, we need very strong enforcement and I think it would be true to say that the Australian record over a number of years has been fairly patchy, particularly under those provisions of the Criminal Code Act that deal with bribery of foreign officials."Mamdouh and Ibrahim Elomar will appear in court on foreign bribery charges next month and face jail sentences of up to 10 years if found guilty. - See more at: http://www.australiaplus.com/international/2015-02-26/foreign-bribery-investigation-launched-into-sydneybased-construction-company-lifese-with-links-to-te/1418895#sthash.tD7zQQBn.dpuf

Media Retention Laws/ Act like a spy!!!!!

Clearly a part of this is to fuck over whistleblowers!!!!!
If you are charged under S474.17  Offend, Menace and Harass must have a collective  meaning  and must cause a psychological reaction in the reasonable person . Watch out for fucking dodgy magistrates who fuck over people  by failing to  apply the necessary level of offence for this  to be criminal.   watch out for the shonky Magistrate Lisa Stapleton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Data retention v media freedom

Can the media still be free and fearless under the Government's Data Retention regime? Many believe the answer is no

But now to more weighty matters and the vexing subject of media freedom.

Parliament this week will debate a bill requiring telephone companies and internet service providers to collect data from all their customers and store it for two years, so police and security services can get access.

The information they’ll be required to keep is called metadata but as to precisely what it includes, no one is 100% sure, and even the Attorney-General, George Brandis, has had trouble explaining.


DAVID SPEERS: If I go the Sky News website, The Australian website, a more questionable website, is that what we’re talking about here?

GEORGE BRANDIS: Well, I, the, what you’re viewing on the internet is not what we’re interested in.

— Sky News, 7th August, 2014

We’ll come back to precisely what those phone companies and ISP’s will be collecting on you and on journalists in a moment.

But first, here’s what veteran investigative reporter Ross Coulthart recently had to say about what it all means for people like him:


ROSS COULTHART: It is the biggest threat to journalistic freedom ever ...

Metadata tells you everything. If you know who I’m calling as a journalist and if you know who’s calling me, and you can put together who that person is and where they’re calling from, who I’m emailing, who I’m getting emails from, you almost don’t need the content of the information, if what you’re doing is investigating a journalist who’s being leaked information.

— ABC Radio National, Media Report, 12th February, 2015

The government says that metadata retention is vital for “the security and safety of the Australian public”

But what exactly is metadata? And what can it do?

Well, essentially it’s the electronic trail we all leave on our computers and phones.

It identifies who we call and text ... and the people who call and text us.

It can also identify who we email or message on our computers ... and those who email or message us.

It could also include a record of the websites we visit. And possibly our browsing history, although the Government says it won’t.

And it can track where we’ve been with our phones at any time.

And all this makes life almost impossible for investigative journalists and whistleblowers, as the West Australian’s Steve Pennells explained to Media Watch.


STEVE PENNELLS: One of the bedrock principles we work on is confidentiality of sources. People talk, people talk to me and talk to other journalists, on the understanding and the promise that they’ll, that those communications will be confidential and even the fact that we talked will be confidential. Now, I can’t give that assurance, if, if the records of our communications or the fact we spoke are being kept and could be accessed by any number of agencies.

— Steve Pennells, Chief Writer, the West Australian, 26th February, 2015

Journalists’ call records and metadata have been legally available to police without a warrant since 1979.

And they’ve not only been used to keep us safe from terrorists.

Fairfax’s investigative reporter Nick McKenzie told Media Watch:


Too often we’ve seen sources subject to witch hunts when they’re clearly revealing information that isn’t about national security and is clearly in the public interest.

It’s happened at least four times that I know of where my calls have been checked but there may have been more

The Australian’s Cameron Stewart has also had his phone records accessed by the AFP, and he told Media Watch he is one of many


CAMERON STEWART: In Australia last year, there were at least five instances of, of journalists’ metadata being examined and I think they were for the, for the stopping the boats and all the refugee issues ...

… And the real worry there is that you’re gonna get governments who are not doing it for any reasons of genuine national security but are simply doing it to stop embarrassment and, and basically will hunt down whistleblowers.

— Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor, The Australian, 26th February, 2015


Hunting down whistleblowers on political stories that upset the Government has been a regular sport for Labor and the Coalition over the years, as one of our most respected political journalists discovered back in 2008 when Kevin Rudd was Prime Minister.


Federal police hunt for Laurie Oakes fuel leak source

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police are sifting through the telephone records of Daily Telegraph columnist Laurie Oakes to find who leaked Cabinet documents which embarrassed the Federal Government.

— The Daily Telegraph, 23rd June, 2008

The police also pursued journalists from The Australian in 2005 after this front-page story by Martin Chulov and Jonathan Porter revealed the findings of a secret Customs report:


Airport staff ‘smuggling drugs’

Secret Customs report exposes criminal links

— The Australian, 31st May, 2005

The author of that Customs report Allan Kessing subsequently received a 9-month suspended jail sentence after a court found him guilty of leaking it to the paper.

Metadata showed that numbers at News Ltd had been called from a public phone near Kessing’s home.

And in 2004, two journalists on Melbourne’s Herald Sun were pursued by police after their story about denying benefits to war veterans embarrassed John Howard’s government.


Secret papers show bleak plan for war veterans

Cabinet’s $500m rebuff revealed

— Herald Sun, 20th February, 2004

Those two Herald Sun journalists, Gerard McManus and Michael Harvey, were famously convicted of contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about their source .

But the police reckoned they had found him anyway by cross checking the journalists’ numbers along with hundreds of mobile phones and thousands of extensions at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Now it’s important to point out that all this stuff has been and will continue to be available to police without a warrant

And in future there will be far more information to access and a far greater chance that whistleblowers will be caught, which means they’re far less likely to blow the whistle.


STEVE PENNELLS: The consequences are huge for whistleblowers. I mean, In some situations it’s jail time. So, I mean, that’s why, that’s why it’s important. I mean they just wouldn’t come forward. I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t come forward as a whistleblower unless I was absolutely sure that our communications were confidential and, and I don’t know if you could give me that assurance.

— Steve Pennells, Chief Writer, The West Australian, 26th February, 2015

And Steve Pennells and his fellow journalists are not alone in their concerns.

Dr Adam Molnar who lectures in criminology at Deakin University and sits on the board of the Australian Privacy Foundation says the bill:


... poses a very grave threat to the rights to free speech in this country.

— Adam Molnar, Australian Privacy Foundation, 19th February, 2015

George Williams, Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales is also deeply critical, telling Media Watch:


The fact that we’re the only democracy without a bill of rights means we lack protections for freedom of speech and the press. That makes our journalists uniquely vulnerable when it comes to whistleblowers being revealed.

— Professor George Williams, University of NSW, 19th February, 2015

So what’s the solution?

Well, one answer might be to make this data available to police only for criminal law enforcement and national security.

This is recommended by a joint submission to Parliament from Australia’s combined media organisations, including the ABC, News Corp, Fairfax and others.

Another answer might be to make an exception for journalists by requiring the police and security services to get a warrant when they’re chasing leakers.

After an official inquiry revealed how widespread such investigations have become in Britain, this is a protection the UK government is now set to adopt ....


Police will be forced to seek the permission of a judge if they want to retrieve the phone and email records of journalists, after the prime minister’s snooping watchdog found that 19 police forces made more than 600 applications to uncover confidential sources in the past three years.

— The Guardian, 5th February, 2015

The Australian government has not yet accepted either of those safeguards, but the all-party committee that’s been reviewing the Data Retention Bill clearly believes something may need to be done, because it has recommended that the Commonwealth Ombudsman or Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security should be notified of any access to journalists’ data.

And it has also recommended:


A separate review by this Committee of safeguards relating to the use of telecommunications data for the purpose of determining journalist’s sources ...

— House of Representatives, Media Release, 27th February, 2015

But, until there is some exemption for the media, what can journalists and whistleblowers do—if anything—to keep their conversations safe from surveillance?


CAMERON STEWART: I know journalists who juggle multiple phones, for example, but I actually think the only way you can really do it is to go back to the Stone Age. That’s just, just stay off electronic communications, don’t take a phone with you if you’re meeting a source et cetera, et cetera. But then of course that raises the question, well how do you arrange those meetings in the first place?

— Cameron Stewart, Associate Editor, The Australian, 26th February, 2015

So how do you arrange that meeting?

Well, there’s an answer to that too. Even if it’s one that many journalists and whistleblowers haven’t yet thought of:


ROSS COULTHART: If I meet somebody for the first time and they’re gonna be a useful source, the first thing I say to them is, ‘never email me, never phone me’, and then I explain to them the reason why they shouldn’t is because if they do they’ll leave a trace. So we communicate like spies do in cyberspace using dead letter drops and it’s the only way to safely and securely protect a source.

— ABC Radio National, News at Noon, 25th February, 2015

And our advice to those who want to remain anonymous?

Well for starters, don’t ring from your home, office or mobile phone.

Ditto your home or office computer.

Send electronic information on a CD through the post.

And if you do choose an underground car park ... find one without CCTV, don’t bring your phone, don’t use your credit card nearby or your electronic travel card to get you there.

All in all, it’s pretty hard for whistleblowers not to get caught.


PAUL BARRY: Do you believe that society needs whistleblowers?

STEVE PENNELLS: Of course it does. Any society needs whistleblowers. In the absence of whistleblowers you've got to have complete faith in every level of government and policing and the justice system. And you’d be naive to think that.

— Steve Pennells, Chief Writer, The West Australian, 26th February, 2015

YOUR COMMENTS

  S474.17 Criminal Code 1995/ Letter to Judge Jefferys Downing Center Sydney
Re Interpretation of Offensive by the Supreme Court

 

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26^th February 2015

Judge Jefferys

District Court

Downing Centre  Sydney

 

Re Question of Law

Standard of  “offensiveness” to constitute a criminal charge

Supreme Court NSW

 

Dear Judge Jefferys

I refer to my Appeal in the District Court and the several times I have appeared before you  in applications for fresh evidence.

This  was an appeal from the Local Court. The Magistrate was Lisa Stapleton.

The complete failure and total disregard of Stapleton to apply   the correct standards  in S474.17 Criminal Code 1995  can only  show how fundamentally flawed the  NSW Judicial system is. Stapleton clearly showed no regard to any Higher Court Judgments  in regard to S474.17

 Taking everything into consideration it clearly appears inappropriate for you to refer to her as a learned magistrate when you are  aware  of her  failure and abuse of power in her decisions in regard   to this.

I therefore  need  a determination of question of law  in the Supreme Court because  I cannot have faith in your decisions  and believe there is a conflict of interest  making you vulnerable to protecting  her atrocious conduct instead of exposing it.

 

S 474.17 states S474.17

using a carriage service to menace harass or cause offence

A/ A person is guilty of  an offence if:

the person uses a carriage service and;

 the person does so in a way(  whether by the method or the use of contents  of communication or both that reasonable persons would regard as being in all the circumstances, menacing , harassing or offensive

. You will be aware from experience that  Menacing or Harassing to be criminal must cause extreme fear or anxiety  in a person to constitute a criminal charge . Therefore    “ Offensive”  must  have a collective interpretation  along with menace and harass.  The High Court’s decision in Monis V the Queen enforces this interpretation. Stapleton admitted to have read Monis 7 or eight times. Both you and Stapleton have read  “Brett David Starkey” which is the decision handed down by the District Court of Queensland  that  to convict it must be of a severity  that  it caused the relevant apprehension  or fear for safety. Stapleton failed in everyway to take any of this decision  into consideration .

You are also particularly aware that in Monis V the Queen the High Court  found that the narrow meaning of “offensive’ must be use. Therefore ,S473  Criminal Code must also have the narrow interpretation  to be considered criminal.

I have included this section for your convenience so you will not have to go to the trouble of looking this up.

S473

 Determining whether material is offensive

The matters to be taken into account  for this part whether  reasonable persons would regard  particular material or particular use of use he standards of  morality of the carriage service as being in all the circumstance offensive include:

a) the standards  of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults and,

b/ the literary, artistic or educational merit( if any)  of the general character of the material, and

c/ the general character of the  material( including whether it is of a medical legal or scientific in character

Judge Jefferys, If you took the narrow meaning of morality then it would need to be immoral to find it offensive. The narrow meaning of decency would be indecency or something close and the propriety should also have a narrow interpretation  and although I reminded Stapleton that she should read my blogs in correct context as required by S473 on several occasions  Stapleton saw no RELEVANCE in this.

Taking into careful consideration  the required  legislation  of S473 there  leaves little room for error of what “offensive’  is to be  considered under S474.17.

Therefore in the interest of Justice and  also in the interest of transparency the Supreme Court needs to give the correct standard for “ offensive” to be criminal.

You are aware the fault element is “ recklessness’  Recklessness must cause something. You are aware that this must cause anxiety  and fearfulness for ones safety. You are clearly aware this standard has in no way been met. and you are aware that Stapleton has failed in her duty as a magistrate.

The Supreme Court has requested a copy of the “Stated Case” or  certificate of Judgment  for proper  determination as soon as possible.

Unfortunately as I must reiterate again it has come to a matter where I have no confidence in you.

I am sure you understand my point  taking everything into consideration  of your appeared support of Lisa Stappleton as a learned Magistrate

A  quick response would be appreciated.

Thanking you

Fiona Brown

Royal Commission investigates child abuse among GOD'S chosen people.
Clearly this demonstrate how out of toch these religious people are........

Jewish school tried to 'cure' sex offender

The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse began its second hearing in Melbourne on Monday, focusing on ultra-orthodox Jewish organisation Yeshivah.

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Yeshivah Melbourne tried to "cure" serial sex offender David Cyprys and continued to employ him more than 20 years after victims reported he had sexually abused them, a Royal Commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse began its second hearing in Melbourne on Monday, focusing on the ultra-orthodox Jewish organisation Yeshivah.
The two-week hearing at the County Court will examine Yeshivah Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi's response to child sexual abuse allegations against their former employees, convicted sex offenders David Cyprys, David Kramer and Daniel Hayman.

Manny Waks, who was a victim of David Samuel Cyprys, appeared before the Royal Commission. Photo: Penny Stephens

Cyprys was found guilty of indecent assault in 1992 and released on a good behaviour bond. In 2013, the County Court found him guilty of five charges of rape, five charges of indecent assault, attempted indecent assault, and two counts of gross indecency. He is still serving his eight-year prison sentence for these crimes.

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One of Cyprys' victims, known as AVA, said he was sexually abused between the ages of 14 and 17, when he took private kung fu lessons from Cyprys.
"There is no doubt in my mind Yeshivah College and some of its rabbis were aware of David's penchant for young boys," he told the commission.

Manny Waks arrives at the County Court, Melbourne, where he's appearing at the Royal Commission into child abuse. Manny was abused while at Yeshivah College. Photo: Penny Stephens

His mother, known as AVQ, said she first reported her son's abuse in 1986 to the-then director of Yeshivah Centre, Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner.
Rabbi Groner, who died in 2008, responded, "Oh no, I thought we cured him," she said. Rabbi Groner assured her he would "take care of it. It will be fine".
About 2002, AVQ called the rabbi again when she learned that her son had continued to be abused by Cyprys years later. He asked her if AVA was going to the police, and she responded "probably".
"What do you need me for then?" he replied.
AVA said Cyprys should not have been allowed near children at Yeshivah until 2011: "I don't care how cured they thought he was."
Manny Waks, who was also abused by Cyprys, told the commission he had confronted Rabbi Groner in the 2000s about why Cyprys continued to be employed as a security guard at Yeshivah despite abuse allegations against him from 1996.
Rabbi Groner told Mr Waks, founder and former chief executive of Jewish victims' support group Tzedek, that he was "personally dealing with it" and that Cyprys was receiving professional help.
Mr Waks said he had confirmed that Rabbi Groner knew of Cyprys' offending as early as 1984. That year, a victim and the father of another victim relayed abuse allegations to him via another rabbi.
Other victims and their family members are also expected to give evidence they were ostracised by rabbinical leaders and the Jewish community after they reported abuse.
Counsel assisting the Royal Commission, Maria Gerace, said in her opening address on Monday that witnesses would give evidence that Chabad communities - who strictly observe Orthodox Judaism - were "insular and set apart from the wider secular community".
"Witnesses are expected to give evidence that historically, there was no sex education whilst growing up and family members and members of the community did not openly discuss the issue of sex," she said.
"I anticipate witnesses will also give evidence that a person's standing in the community and community attitudes to a member can affect, positively or adversely, a member's prospect of marriage and economic opportunities."
The commission would also examine the role the religious concept mesirah, which prohibits Jewish people from handing over another Jew to a secular or non-Rabbinic authority. Mesirah developed in response to the historical persecution of Jews.
"The inquiry will examine whether the concept of mesirah has influenced the attitude of rabbinical leaders and community members in their treatment of victims of abuse who participate in the criminal process," she said.

Appeal to the Supreme Court NSW/ S 474.17 Criminal Code 1995

Interpretation of Offend!!!
Menace , Harass or Offended must have a collective meaning!!!!! Although Offend ( free speech) is not defined  menacing and harassing are. Look at the various state laws for harassing and menacing that are criminal which will be the guide for "offending"
To be found guilty of Menacing or Harassing   fear  anxiety  or apprehension must have been caused to an extent that would be diagnosed   by a medical professional.
Dodgy NSW magistrates are  not applying the correct tests   and are fucking everyone over.
The narrow interpretation also must be use for 'offensive"' as required by the High Court. As S 473 is also the test for offensiveness so the narrow test also applies.
The fault element is recklessness. Recklessness lies somewhere between intent and negligence. Recklessness must cause something......... so what does it cause...........

Its time to stop the shit in the court system and make the Supreme Court give a decision on "offensiveness '

What out for the dodgy NSW Magistrate Lisa Stapleton!!!!!



Section 474.17 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) is Use Carriage Service to Menace Harass or Cause Offence and is extracted below.

474.17Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence

(1)A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a)the person uses a carriage service; and

(b)the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.

Penalty:Imprisonment for 3 years."

 

Shonky Ian Lazar out on Bail

So Ian Lazar's barrister has admitted that Ian Lazar has mental issues....
Along with his father, the Sydney Rabbi David Ragout these two dodgy people attempted to intimidate me and anyone else who exposed them!!!!


Support: Mr Lazar's partner Angeline Aamariah, left, and her mother Louise Anne Nelson leave Downing Centre Local Court on Friday. Photo: Christopher Pearce
Controversial lender-of-last resort Ian Lazar is out on bail after his elderly father Rabbi David Rogut put up $200,000 in cash as surety.
Mr Lazar, 43, who appeared by video link from Long Bay jail, has been behind bars since he was arrested on October 30 last year.
He is facing 16 charges, including fraud, dealing with the proceeds of crime, conspiring to intimidate a police officer and the theft of cattle.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Mark Gorman told the Downing Centre Local Court that Mr Lazar showed "a demonstrated capacity to interfere with witnesses" and that he posed an unacceptable flight risk.

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A police report from the internal COPS system revealed Mr Lazar had associations with some significant Sydney criminals.
His barrister Greg James, QC, used the report to rattle off a list of supposed associates of his client, including a "Mrs Ibrahim".
Mr James quipped that his client was more like to be at risk from them than the other way around and that Mr Lazar certainly "hasn't been in Macquarie Street at night in recent times".
Mr James said that Mr Lazar, who had mental health issues, was not a flight risk.
Magistrate Mark Buscombe was critical of aspects of the police case saying some of the charges were "fundamentally defective" or that they "failed to provide the proper particulars".
He said it was difficult to assess the strength of the police case as only limited material was placed before the court.
In granting bail, Magistrate Buscombe said that Mr Lazar had to report to North Sydney police daily, hand in his passport and not approach prosecution witnesses.
His bail conditions also include only having one mobile phone, not leaving his house between 8pm and 6pm, and being accompanied by his partner or her mother, Louise Anne Nelson, during the day.

Ombudsman and Top Cop's to appear before NSW Parliamentary inquiry
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It looks like the NSW Ombudsman is as dodgy as the Commonwealth Ombudsman at protecting Government departments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione, right, with Premier Mike Baird. Source: News Corp Australia

THE state’s top cops and the Ombudsman have been called to appear before a parliamentary inquiry into a police bugging scandal.

Ombudsman Bruce Barbour, Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and his deputies Catherine Burn and Nick Kaldas have all been called to appear at the inquiry, which will begin on January 28.
It is expected to question the high-profile officers on never-heard-before details about why an internal affairs unit bugged more than 100 police, most of whom were totally innocent.
At the heart of the inquiry is the evidence in affidavits that led to warrants being issued to allow a corrupt police officer to wear a wire and bug 114 police at a social function.
One of those at the function and whose office was also bugged was then homicide squad chief Mr Kaldas.
Both Mr Scipione and Ms Burn worked at the internal affairs unit at the time. It has been the source of tension between the three for years.
An internal investigation into the issuing of the warrants and the operation has been kept secret for more than a decade by both sides of politics.
For the past two years Mr Barbour has conducted an inquiry behind closed doors into the police operation.
Questions are being asked why after two years and $3 million there has been no report.

Watchdog exposes tricks public servants use to avoid sharing information with the public

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A government watchdog has exposed some of the techniques federal public servants use to wrongfully prevent citizens from accessing their own records.
The Information Commissioner's investigation of the bureaucracy's biggest workplace, the Department of Human Services, revealed an organisation obsessed with process, that preferred legalese to plain English and had increasingly lost sight of its duty to share information.
In one Kafkaesque case, freedom of information officers told a man that recordings of his own voice breached his ex-partner's privacy because he had mentioned her.

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Rather than give him the readily available recordings of his phone calls to the Child Support Agency, the FOI team proposed spending weeks of staff time going through each call and censoring the moments he spoke about his ex-partner.
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Another FOI applicant had asked for a copy of an "actual conversation" he had with department staff. The department refused his request, saying it had no audio recording of the phone call. But it did not tell him it had a written record of it.
The report also cited an applicant who wanted details of a call an official had made to another organisation, within a specific date range, that "apparently infers that I was attempting to extort money". The department denied that request, too, saying there was no document that mentioned "extortion", even though it had a similar record that matched the request.
The commissioner, Professor John McMillan, began investigating the department, which includes Centrelink and Medicare, after noticing a huge increase in the number of times it invoked its "practical refusal" power.
Under FOI law, government agencies can knock back requests for documents if processing them would "unreasonably" waste time and resources.
However, the department used this power 777 times last financial year, a more than twentyfold increase from two years earlier.
Professor McMillan said he had also received many complaints about a change in the department's culture.
The Welfare Rights and Advocacy Service, which uses FOI to help people gain access to benefits they were wrongfully denied, complained it had struggled to understand some of the department's letters since April last year.
"There has been a marked increase in length, complexity of language and use of what appears to be chunks of text that have been 'cut and pasted' and at the same time there has been a marked reduction in the number of documents released to a client," the service said.
Another organisation, the NSW Welfare Rights Centre, said FOI was the "only independent check" on the department, which sometimes failed to disclose all relevant records during legal hearings over disputed debts.
Professor McMillan, whose office may be abolished early next year, said the department was in the difficult position of receiving more than 100,000 requests for documents each year, but a less secretive culture would help it operate more efficiently.
"The default position in many government, or any other, organisations is to control information. Saying 'no' often seems the easiest answer – but that's not necessarily the case," he told Fairfax Media.
He said he understood why agencies turned to lawyers to deal with FOI and said their input was important.
But he cited the example of the Defence Department, which had greatly improved its efficiency in handling FOI requests in recent years.
"Their breakthrough came from taking FOI out of the hands of lawyers," Professor McMillan said.
"Treating everything as an analysis of legal principles is not always helpful. The simplest, most cost-effective way to administer access requests, whether under the FOI Act or otherwise, is to find out what will satisfy the applicant and do what you can to help them."
The Department of Human Services said it would begin to implement Professor McMillan's recommendations.
Its secretary, Kathryn Campbell, said it was "focused on improving the customer experience, particularly for our vulnerable and special needs customers".