Parliament Returns Next Week, Make Yourself Heard!

By admin | Published: August 5, 2010
It’s time to start writing your letters to ‘The West Australian’.  State Parliament is returning next week and we need to make sure that our rights are not forgotten in the midst of all the excitement over deciding between “moving forward” and an “action plan”. It is important for us all to make an effort over [...]
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Flash Mob For Your Rights!

By admin | Published: June 12, 2010
The Legislation Committee will be handing down their findings on stop and search laws on June 17. So get ready to flash…mob! (No actual flashing please: stripping is reserved for real police searches only!) To show your disgust at these proposed laws, come down to Murray St Mall and be prepared to “spread ‘em” against a [...]
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CRUCIAL INFORMATION

By pearl | Published: May 4, 2010
Members of the government are also beginning to question the ‘stop and search’ legislation, be it in the Committee hearings or in private. We must encourage them in their doubts. We must show them that if they oppose the legislation they will have our support. Any vote against the legislation is [...]
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Search For Your Rights on the ABC

By admin | Published: April 22, 2010
On Tuesday 20 April, Rally For Your Rights took place outside Parliament House. Rob Johnson (Police Minister), Margaret Quirk MLA (Opposition Police Spokesman), Dr Indermaur (Crime Research Centre) and Giz Watson MLC (Greens) addressed the crowd, and the rally attracted some media attention. Watch the ABC News report above, and please send any photos or videos from the big day! [...]
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Rally For Your Rights This Tuesday

By admin | Published: April 18, 2010
The rally is looming very close ahead now – this Tuesday, 20 April 12.30pm at Parliament House. The stronger the turnout the greater the chance we can make a difference, so please come down and say NO to stop and search! View Larger Map FROM UWA: Catch 102 bus from Mounts Bay Rd after Hackett Drive at 12:13pm Get off [...]
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Search For Your Rights In The Media

By admin | Published: April 18, 2010
Search For Your Rights organiser Alex Cassie has been interviewed by Western suburbs local paper The Post. Click here to read, and don’t forget: RALLY FOR YOUR RIGHTS! THIS TUESDAY! 12.30 AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE!
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COMPLETE THE SUNDAY TIMES LAW AND ORDER SURVEY

By admin | Published: March 28, 2010
The Sunday Times and Channel 9 News are running their Law and Order survey. Questions include: Do you support the push for stop and search powers for WA police? Do you think Police Minister Rob Johnson should be replaced? Do you trust WA Police? Download the survey here, complete and send it in to voice your views on law [...]
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ALP Stop and Search Forum (Updated)

By admin | Published: March 14, 2010
The ALP is holding a forum on the proposed stop and search laws. Speakers on both sides of the debate will be presenting, including our very own Alex Cassie. Please come down, show your support, and get your voice heard! When: Monday March 29, 6pm. Where: Perth Soccer Club (3 Lawley St, West Perth WA 6005) Update: The speakers [...]
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Random body searches go too far: Hockey

By admin | Published: March 14, 2010
A senior Federal Liberal MP has criticised a push by state and territory governments to increase police powers, saying it threatens individual liberty. Joe Hockey used a speech to the Grattan Institute in Melbourne last night to take aim at state governments trying to crack down on crime by granting police the power to conduct random [...]
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Why We Should Look To Texas To Tackle Crime

By admin | Published: March 11, 2010
From Paul Papalia – former MLA, Shadow Minister for Corrective Services and SAS serviceman: Service in the counter terrorist squadron of the SAS Regiment and two operational deployments to Iraq as a navy diver etched in my brain for ever the need to plan for success. The alternative invariably meant casualties or loss of life. So when [...]
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  • We want your help to stop the Criminal Investigation Amendment Bill 2009. This Bill is currently under review in the Legislation Committee, and will be brought before parliament in early 2010.

    If passed, these “stop and search” laws will remove one of your basic civil rights.  Currently if a cop wants to search you, the police officer must be able to show they had ‘reasonable suspicion’ that you may be concealing objects pertaining to a crime.

    This legislation proposes to remove the requirement of reasonable suspicion.

    Removing the need for reasonable suspicion opens the door for unreasonable searches.

    If this law passes, you can be searched in whatever area the police commissioner decides needs to be targeted.

    There will be no parliamentary overview - and no legal defence for victims.  Perth, Northbridge, Fremantle and wherever else the Commissioner decides will turn into police-run zones where you can be stopped, searched, stripped and scrutinised at the whim of whoever is on patrol.

    We respect police, and we understand that they have a difficult job.  However, these laws will not increase safety.

    Instead they will push the problem into different areas, decrease respect for police, and find nothing that the police do not already have the powers to find.

    Are you ready to have your rights sacrificed for nothing?

    You can help to stop this legislation!

    • Write letters and emails to the Premier Colin Barnett, the Police Minister Rob Johnson or to your local MP. Click on the VOICE YOUR VIEWS link to see the addresses you can send your email to, or if you’re in a hurry send our form letter.
    • Draft a submission to the Legislation Committee.  Click LEGISLATION COMMITTEE to see how you can do this, and a draft of the submission on behalf of Search For Your Rights.
    • Be informed about your legal rights and opposition to the bill. Click YOUR RIGHTS in the menu for links to Legal Services Australia, and WORK TOGETHER for other groups who oppose this legislation.
    • STAY POSTED for future actions, protests and movements.

    Search for your rights!