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Chapter 29
SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S MYTH OF
WESTMINSTER’S SEPARATION OF
POWERS
The executive challenges the judiciary
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Our state has been full of secrets for a long time, from the Family
murders to the abuse of children in care. You can’t continue to suppress
names and let people walk away with their crimes hidden. If Premier
Mike Rann wants to go to the election saying he’s tough on crime, he
should get rid of unnecessary suppression orders and show respect to
victims, not criminals.
- Father whose 14-year-old daughter was abused, Advertiser, 2 January 2010.
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We have made changes to ensure SA leads the nation on providing a
voice for victims of crime at each step on the road to justice. - Spokesman
for Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, Advertiser, 2 January 2010.
South Australia, known as the state of dissent, has for a long time shown the
way towards reforming essential matters, as a crown colony giving women
the vote in 1894, six years before the 1901 federation. Recently it outlawed
the use of plastic shopping bags, and it has container deposit legislation.
South Australia also pioneered the partial decriminalisation of marijuana,
and in December 2006 the Independent Weekly assessed what effect this
has had on the state’s social wellbeing.
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