#AntiMuslimLaws The ministers, who met in Geelong on Friday, agreed to come up with options to roll out facial biometric matching across all federal, state and territory jurisdictions. The Australian Human Rights Commission was also concerned about a new offence making it a crime for Australians to travel to, or stay in, a known terrorism hotspot. Lowering the threshold for arrest on the basis of suspicion rather than intention to commit a terrorist act could have a chilling effect, she said. Youre suspecting something thats in the mind of somebody but without outside objective steps taken towards the commission of it, Prof Triggs said.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 09:56:28 +0000