"Ten years of anti-terror laws"

Professor George Williams discusses anti-terror laws in Australia on ABC 1233 Newcastle (ABC 1233 Newcastle, September 12 2011).

"It's appropriate we have laws on the books that criminalise terrorism and prevent acts of terrorism, but we've got too many laws which are disproportionate, which I think, in, for example, criminalising speech or providing for the detention of non-suspects, go too far and are unjustified in terms of the threat that Australia is facing," he told Radio National.

"I think it's really significant that we copied a lot of these laws from the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom is now in the middle of winding them back."

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