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Greg Barns SC
@BarnsGreg
Barrister and writer. Adviser to Australian Assange campaign. Columnist with Hobart Mercury. Author of The Rise of the Right (Hardie Grant Publishing 2019)
Salamaca Chambers Hobart Joined June 2011
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One thing for sure, the remarkable Mr Jones, who remained an amateur and inspired Augusta, would not have approved of Mr Norman's antics 🏌♂️
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Half an hour with two wonderful journalists, on the state and role of western media - stenographers useful in keeping the flags waving on porches. Correspondents in bed with one side. Why were they so keen to cooperate in this way?
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Absolutely right Tim. ABC news has succumbed to the click bait disease. Becoming very light weight. As the national broadcaster now serving its viewers very badly.
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Yep, @az_journalist and @SBSNews have shown the ABC and the commercial networks how to do it. Tragic story, but reporting, filming and production to be proud of. Thank you. twitter.com/az_journalist/…
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“Capsicum spray will not be used against persons offering passive resistance, nor will it be given to any police rostered for demonstrations”, Vic Police Minister, P. J. McNamara 1995 #Springst #VicPolWatch #BanOCSpray
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Once again Yarralumla enters the Sargeant Schultz defence -- I know nothing, nothing! -- over an irregular interaction with Mr Morrison. Excellent reporting
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Bizarre the ABC agreed to publish this guy’s photo and first name - but not his last name - for “security reasons”. Has no one in Defence or the ABC heard of facial recognition software or a reverse google image search? Or of Facebook/LinkedIn etc?
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Watermark of French TV’s Journal de 20 Heures appears on-screen at bottom-left. If this footage is verified as genuine, then for once I am left speechless…
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French TV correspondent talks about a boy from Ukraine who salutes every time a military truck passes by. Except she forgot to mention the two girls across the street..
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OC spray is now commonly used as a crowd control tool at protests and routinely against people experiencing a mental health crisis or simply being non-compliant. #VicPolWatch #BanOCSpray
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My latest: Israel's apartheid courts have put a man away for 12 years for the "crime" of providing charity aid to Palestinian children in Gaza:
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just read unintentionally hilarious 1600-word #JanetAlbrechtsen piece claiming would be doing a lot better if — who drove his new jaguar into a house at 8.55pm one saturday night last year then blew a 0.131 BAC reading — was contesting this election!
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Last night spoke in tribute to Minister for Indigenous Australians and her “odyssey”, her Wiradjuri heritage, time as state minister and deputy leader of state ALP.
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I agree Greg. Quite disappointing that the Law Society and others have not commented on this travesty. Feels like an episode of Rumpole at this point.
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Yes, like many others I underestimated the impact of covid when it first appeared but I think that I have more than made up for it, including starting petitions calling for stronger action when needed see
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Scott Morrison: Australian quarantine Hotel staff need to be vaccinated NOW - Sign the Petition! chng.it/gjcHppwZ via @ChangeAUS
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That's a bit unfair. I opposed the Tasmanian trial because I didn't think it was necessary! See
Why I oppose Tasmanian trials for medical cannabis - Tasmanian Times
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Thats is an out of context quote that completely misrepresents my position. I opposed the Tasmanian trial because I didn't think it was necessary! See
Why I oppose Tasmanian trials for medical cannabis - Tasmanian Times
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Our WA Conference continues and we thank Rene Le Miere QC for an engaging and informative keynote address regarding legislative reforms in WA that remove impediments to civil claims for damages for child sexual abuse.
#ALAWACONF22
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Great piece by on the scandal that is disregard for lawyer client confidentiality The local legal profession as always say little with exception being and Too many lawyers in Tasmania are black letter types
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4 weeks out from Melbourne marathon … need to find another 14 kms
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Take it from me: the Governor General’s role in getting $18m from Morrison for a charity without a record, office or program and no competitive bid is set to be the most controversial vice regal indulgence since Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam.
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“This is a complete travesty of justice constructed by Israel for ideological reasons to frame an innocent man.”
slams the Israeli court sentencing of Mohammed El Halabi to 12 years jail.
#Justice4ElHalabi #EndIsraeliApartheid
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If a former member of a police union characterises unionists as thugs, what does that say about that former union member and thuggery in his former occupation?
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. asks about “boat arrivals” (asylum seeker arrivals). His response “I can’t talk about Operation Sovereign Borders in any operational sense” “I’m not going to talk about operational matters” new government, same secrecy, same brutal and illegal policy
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Nothing compared to the nice little earners cooked up by LNP crooks over the past decades. Their rotten governments, state and federal, have been a developer's dream.
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“We’re concerned about the rising militarisation of and the protection of protest rights under Victoria’s human rights laws... The rights for peaceful assembly and freedom to demonstrate are integral to a functioning democratic society”
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WEBINAR Without Fear or Favour: Responses to the ALRC Report on Judicial Impartiality
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is Recruiting from DON DALE for AYDC 🤦♀️
We need skilled therapeutic staff in an intermediary facility. Please listen to the experts; it is not safe for children NOW.
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Three Finnish journalists go on trial in rare press freedom case reuters.com/world/europe/f #PressFreedom #transparency #security #government #secrets #Finland
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“There is a dearth of oversite (sic) of Victoria Police, and to have that report really dig into it was pretty fantastic and an example of what we need more of..” on with . #vicpolwatch
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And are trying to absolve police of illegal or improper conduct by speculation about the conduct of the Office of the DPP without any basis for doing so.
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If you support #Teal candidates then there is only one running in the Pembroke election next Saturday @HansWillink Smart and considered and independent #politas
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A father. A family. A fight for justice.
#ithaka has been nominated for @aacta best #documentary!
#FreeAssangeNow @citizenbenlaw @GabrielShipton @StellaMoris1
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Ross Garnaut correct. Both sides of politics trapped by mindless commitments not to do more than than tinker with an inequitable tax system that is failing country's broader economic objectives
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