Greg Barns
Barrister and writer
Greg Barns is an Australian barrister, political commentator and WikiLeaks Party national campaign director. He is the author of several books, including “What’s wrong with the Liberal Party”.
What’s former National Party candidate Russell Biddle's motivation in dobbing in Mohammed Haneef's barrister Stephen Keim QC for leaking his client's record of interview? Can it be anything other than cheap political point scoring?
The Victorian Education Department has, this week, interfered in the justice system in a most sinister way.
The hapless Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, fresh from a bollocking over his appalling mishandling of Gold Coast doctor Mohammed Haneef, is refusing to grant a visa to a respected UK based writer and newspaper editor, Abdel Bari Atwan.
In our society justice is blind. It has to be that way to ensure that every individual is able to exercise their legal rights. And one of those rights is to appeal against a finding made against you if it is adverse. That’s why we have courts of appeal.
The contrast between the handling of the Haneef investigation and that involving Federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming for alleged misuse of printing and staff allowances is stark indeed, writes Greg Barns.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has seen red over the High Court's decision to hear case of Charles Zentai -- an 85-year-old Hungarian migrant accused of war crimes during WW2 -- pointing to Australia's sorry track record when it comes to extradition of alleged war criminals.
The sight of grown men and women wearing horsehair wigs and black or red gowns in the year 2007 smacks of nothing more than shameless elitism. The 18th century attire of barristers and judges should be consigned to one huge bonfire in every state and territory of Australia, writes Greg Barns.
Despite the Victorian media accusing the AFL of joining "a concerted effort to keep from the public a drug scandal that has rocked a top Melbourne club", as the Sunday Herald-Sun put it, this is an unfair characterization of the issue, writes Greg Barns.
At first I thought it was someone taking the Mickey out of the Australian Federal Police. But no it’s for real, believe it or not. The AFP actually issued a media release yesterday in which they claimed that there has been no leaking by them in the Haneef case, writes Greg Barns.
For how much longer does the Australian public have to put up with Kevin Andrews – our hapless Immigration Minister. Today with the release of 378 pages of the second record of interview by Federal Police with Dr Haneef once again Mr Andrews’ has been undermined by the facts, writes Greg Barns
