Writer
Andrew Fraser
Andrew Fraser is the principal of Fraser Criminal Law and has worked in criminal law in the Canberra region for more than a decade. Before beginning legal practice, Andrew was a journalist for close to 30 years with the <i>Canberra Times</i> and the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, including stints in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery.
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Presumption of innocence under threat
A citizen’s inalienable right to her or his day in court has increasingly become seen as a quaint frivolity by some and a waste of time by many more – but the presumption of innocence is coming under some threat in Australia. Continue reading »
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The cavalcade of the cretinous in Canberra
“You’ve had your say …NOW GO HOME.” Continue reading »
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The counter-revolution that AFL needs
This weekend’s AFL Grand Final is only the seventh time that the finals series hasn’t included one of the great four: Carlton, Collingwood Richmond and Hawthorn since 1925. Continue reading »
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Bringing ‘the Doc’ to the masses – review of Gideon Haigh’s new book
H. V. Evatt could be a massively polarising figure and that is more than unfortunate. It has closed many minds to what we should be celebrating and promulgating as true Australian values. Those values – not merely espoused, but judicially declared and enacted by and because of Evatt – are in evidence throughout Gideon Haigh’s Continue reading »
