Council for Civil Liberties..These new laws involve a considerable intrusion into the privacy of people's lives.
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties says the public has a lot be concerned about.
Law enforcement bodies have repeatedly called on the Queensland Government to allow telephone interceptions, but the Government has been reluctant to agree without privacy safeguards.
[However law enforcement bodies are not the instigators of a police state the crown is the instigator. These plans are a part of the New World Order or spelt backwoods, OWN.]
Premier Anna Bligh says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has now agreed to change the necessary federal legislation to allow a Public Interest Monitor to be set up.
She told State Parliament that Queensland has been asking for federal changes since 2003.
"[Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd understands the legal system in Queensland and he has acted to ensure our legitimate concerns about privacy can be addressed, while appropriately supporting law enforcement activities," he said.
"Queensland Government officials will meet their federal counterparts next week to work through the complexities of the relevant state and federal legislation."
She says Queensland will start work immediately to give police and the CMC the phone-tapping powers they want.
Terry O'Gorman from the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties says the public has a lot be concerned about.
"These new laws involve a considerable intrusion into the privacy of people's lives," he said.
"You can have a mobile tap on a particular mobile phone or a particular landline operating for 30 or 60 days straight; there can be an enormous amount of non-criminal conversation.
"Criminal cases will be compromised, police and prosecutors will get access to the private conversations of lawyers and their clients when they are preparing cases," he added.
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Cameron Murphy NSW Council for Civil Liberties...a massive reduction in police accountability to the community.
Australia: Concerns of a police state
Cameron Murphy...a massive reduction in police accountability to the community. NSW police now have special emergency powers to bug or track people for up to four days without a warrant. Under the biggest shake-up to the state's surveillance laws, police will have up to four days to monitor people before needing to apply retrospectively for an emergency warrant from a Supreme Court judge. NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the new police powers flowed from an inter-governmental Australian terrorism summit in 2002.
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