Tasmania’s Anti-Protest Laws
Address by Rodney Croome to Rally Against Anti-Protest Laws Posted by Kevin Kucks · August 18, 2014 10:45 PM Twenty six years ago in September 1988 the Hobart City Council banned a Salamanca Market stall belonging to the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group because it “didn’t want any homosexuals in its family market”. Bob’s […]
Address by Rodney Croome to Rally Against Anti-Protest Laws Posted by Kevin Kucks · August 18, 2014 10:45 PM
Twenty six years ago in September 1988 the Hobart City Council banned a Salamanca Market stall belonging to the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group because it “didn’t want any homosexuals in its family market”.
Bob’s speech to the anti-protest laws rally Posted by Kevin Kucks · August 16, 2014 5:55 PM
Earth’s living mantle is being degraded at the fastest rate in human history. Every day we 7.5 billion people wake to fewer forests, woodlands and grasslands, less wild coastline and coral reef, less arable land, fewer glaciers and icecaps, more acidic oceans and more extinct species of wildlife than ever before.
International human rights body calls on Tasmania to dump anti-protest laws Posted by Steven Chaffer · August 14, 2014 11:04 AM
(Geneva) – The Australian state of Tasmania should dump a repressive bill which will criminalise protests against mining, logging and other business operations, the International Service for Human Rights said today.
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Campaign Details
Group Leading this Campaign:
Bob Brown Foundation
Campaign Target Type: No Target Stated
Who this Campaign is Targeting: No specific target mentioned
Main Issue of the Campaign: Other
Campaign Ran From: 2014 to 2022
Campaign Outcome: Campaign goal achieved
Outcome Evidence: Bob Brown and Jessica Hoyt, who were both arrested under these new anti-protest laws, challenged the 2014 ‘Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act’. They took their case to the High Court and won, with the High Court finding the laws to be unconstitutional. (Ascertained April 2022.)
Year Outcome Assessed: 2024
Geographic Range of Activity: State
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