His slides as well as AMCRAN's notes from the seminar are now available.

So, would you be committing a seditious offence if you said "May God grant victory to the mujaheddin in Iraq"? Or "Howard is a war criminal for invading Iraq and his government should be overturned by any means possible"?

On 1 December 2005 the NSW Government introduced its complementary legislation introducing state preventative detention powers for 14 days.

However, the Victorian and the ACT Governments allowed or more time for public debate, and referred their draft Bills to committees so that they could examine the Bills.

On 12 October 2005, the Security Legislation Review Committee was finally set up to review the existing anti-terror laws.

The Bill would also allow Defence personnel to be deployed to protect "critical infrastructure" and allow them to shoot to kill to protect that infrastructure. It would also give them soldiers who commit a crime a new defence: that of obeying an order.

Plan to license clerics is absurd

THE Prime Minister's Muslim Advisory Council has proposed a radical solution to the perceived problem of domestic extremism: the establishment of a licensing and monitoring regime for Muslim clerics, school teachers and academics.

Under the proposal, a registration body would be established and Islamic workers would be required to submit themselves to ideological and educational audit. The body would also monitor sermons and the activities of Muslim leaders to ensure continuing compliance to some vague notion of moderation.