{"id":2096,"date":"2023-08-11T20:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:03:14","slug":"home-affairs-tried-to-water-down-report-critical-of-extraordinary-counter-terror-powers-documents-reveal-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/home-affairs-tried-to-water-down-report-critical-of-extraordinary-counter-terror-powers-documents-reveal-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Home affairs tried to water down report critical of \u2018extraordinary\u2019 counter-terror powers, documents reveal &#8211; Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Department of Home Affairs officials told researchers to water down a key report that threatened to undermine the government\u2019s use of \u201cextraordinary\u201d counter-terror powers allowing individuals to be imprisoned for a crime they have not yet committed, documents show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia\u2019s preventive detention regime for terror offenders, which allows individuals to be imprisoned for up to three years to prevent a future crime, has been described as \u201cextraordinary\u201d and disproportionate by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/mar\/30\/australias-powers-to-detain-terrorist-offenders-to-prevent-future-must-be-abolished-watchdog-says\">nation\u2019s independent national security laws watchdog<\/a>, who called for its abolishment in March and said it was causing Australia to become a \u201ccoarser and harsher society\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/aug\/11\/home-affairs-tried-to-water-down-report-critical-of-extraordinary-counter-terror-powers-documents-reveal\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/aug\/11\/home-affairs-tried-to-water-down-report-critical-of-extraordinary-counter-terror-powers-documents-reveal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Home Affairs officials told researchers to water down a key report that threatened to undermine the government\u2019s use of \u201cextraordinary\u201d counter-terror powers allowing individuals to be imprisoned for a crime they have not yet committed, documents show. Australia\u2019s preventive detention regime for terror offenders, which allows individuals to be imprisoned for up to &#8230; <a title=\"Home affairs tried to water down report critical of \u2018extraordinary\u2019 counter-terror powers, documents reveal &#8211; Guardian\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/2023\/08\/11\/home-affairs-tried-to-water-down-report-critical-of-extraordinary-counter-terror-powers-documents-reveal-guardian\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Home affairs tried to water down report critical of \u2018extraordinary\u2019 counter-terror powers, documents reveal &#8211; Guardian\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7gs.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}