by Chris Merritt | Mar 31, 2024 | Chris Merritt, ICAC, Media Article
Chris Minns, the NSW Premier, has established himself as Mr Reasonable. That is why his recent appearance on Sydney radio station 2GB was so surprising.Minns must have known that radio host Ben Fordham would be asking him about the unfair treatment of mining company...
by Chris Merritt | Mar 8, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
In 1988, when Nick Greiner established the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption his motive was admirable. The then-premier was dealing with an extraordinary situation: NSW had become the most corrupt state in the nation, so in order to weed out the bad guys...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 4, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
On one level, this is a tale of two mining companies – one owned by Chinese communists and the other owned by Australians and Americans. But on another level, it is a warning: what happened to these companies is proof that equality before the law – one of the...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 31, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article
Back in March, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus set the wheels in motion for what could turn out to be a difficult chapter in Labor’s unending quest for a federal charter of rights. For a while, this proposal looked like plain sailing. Dreyfus asked the Labor-dominated...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 8, 2023 | Attorney General, Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
When the United Nations Human Rights Committee found breaches of human rights had taken place in NSW, it asked the federal government to prevent a recurrence.Those breaches relate to the flawed legal infrastructure surrounding the NSW Independent Commission Against...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 1, 2023 | Chris Merritt, ICAC, Media Article
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has just issued a ruling that will ruin Christmas for this country’s anti-corruption commissions. Their days of avoiding the scrutiny of a full appeal process could soon be over. Unlike courts, the decisions of...
