Bill targets ill-gotten gains September 24 2002 By Sophie Douez Canberra The proceeds of crime can be confiscated from suspected terrorists, drug traffickers and other criminals before they are convicted or even charged under new laws passed by Federal Parliament yesterday. Criminals are also prevented from selling their story or trading on their notoriety for profit. Under the Proceeds of Crime Bill 2002, courts will be able to freeze and confiscate assets in cases where the Director of Public Prosecutions can prove "on balance of probabilities" that a person has been involved in serious criminal activity in the previous six years, or that the asset is the result of a particular offence. MORE ON http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/23/1032734114296.html Intellectually disabled people living in institutions have their sex lives restricted and their privacy violated through excessive surveillance, Australia's Federal Human Rights and Disability Discrimination Commissioner claims. Sev Ozdowski will today tell an international disability conference in Melbourne that anti-discrimination laws had achieved less for people with intellectual disabilities than for the physically impaired. MORE ON http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/23/1032734113921.html Banderas imagines a new Argentina Antonio Banderas wants his new film about the atrocities of Argentina's last dictatorship to help ensure they are never repeated, and imagines a happier, crisis-free nation. Full report
