April 11, 2009
P 116 Case study The obligations of agencies: Mr Allan Kessing Background On 29 June 2007, Deputy Chief Justice Bennett of the New South Wales District Court sentenced Allan Robert Kessing to a suspended period of nine months imprisonment for
Breathing space for lazy and corrupt Chris Merritt | February 26, 2009 THE Dreyfus committee's proposed federal whistleblower law is a good first effort. Once its obvious flaws are fixed, it should work. If Labor has the courage to build
Labor's Mark Dreyfus focus of media anger Chris Merritt, Legal affairs editor | March 25, 2009 THE federal Government came under sustained attack by senior media figures yesterday over concerns that it will not go far enough in protecting whistleblowers
Mark Dodd | March 25, 2009 The Australian FOUR men had been arrested, police had arrived and were taping off the public concourse area of the departure terminal, but the woman's voice quivered with nervousness at what she had just
Keelty must respond to airport outrage March 24, 2009 The Australian Police were unprepared for a brawl, let alone a bomber WHO does Mick Keelty think he's kidding with his claim Sydney airport security was "acceptable" on Sunday when two
As we say at Qantas, there's no CCTV like no CCTV Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane writes: It’s a cosy world in the security industry. Steve Jackson is Qantas’s new General Manager of Security. With immaculate timing, he replaced the retiring
Xenophon's push to improve shield laws http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,,25281212-17044,00.html Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs editor | April 03, 2009 INDEPENDENT senator Nick Xenophon is working on a plan to force the federal Government to improve its proposed shield laws for journalists' sources. He
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25281214-17044,00.html THE Australian Council of Civil Liberties supports an attempt by whistleblower Allan Kessing to have the High Court rule on the validity of his criminal conviction. ACC president Terry O'Gorman said he agreed with Mr Kessing's call for the
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/kessing-critical-of-whistleblower-laws-20090405-9soj.html Kessing critical of whistleblower laws April 4, 2009 SMH A former Customs official convicted of leaking confidential reports about failures in airport security to the media says the federal government's proposed new whistleblower laws are not enough protection. Allan
http://www.deewr.gov.au/Ministers/Gillard/Media/Transcripts/Pages/Article_090326_121819.aspx The Hon Julia Gillard MP E&OE TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW 2GB 715AM THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2009 ISSUES: PM meeting with President Obama; temporary guarantee of state borrowing; whistleblowers protection; Fair Work Bill; Building the Education Revolution; Bradley Review ALAN JONES: Right.
http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/showPost.cfm?bid=9814 Whistle blower Alan Kessing exposed airport security 2005 Posted 27/03/2009 at 11:46 AM by Macquarie National News In all the kerfuffle about Sydney Airport, many things are forgotten. One of them happens to be the former Customs officer Alan
This week Allan Kessing, the whistleblower who says he's been wrongly convicted of passing on information about the parlous state of Sydney Airport security to the media. As he prepares a final appeal to the High Court, he talks to