Deej Eszenyi: Investigators with wide-ranging powers 15may06
DOWN at West Lakes recently, I found myself gazing up the lights of the football arena, thinking about Royal Commissions. Many South Australians will remember that we held a Royal Commission into the Football Park lights back in 1979.
More recently, in South Australia, we have had the Kapunda [...]

DPP insults victims of crime, says MP By Craig Bildstien 06may06
THE self-confessed “villain” of Parliament, Nick Xenophon, yesterday demanded the State Government appoint an independent regulator to oversee the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In an address to the SA Press Club, Mr Xenophon described the behaviour of chief prosecutor Stephen Pallaras, QC, towards [...]

Hit-and-run widow supports victims’ advocate proposal. 14/03/2006. ABC News Online
The widow of Eugene McGee’s hit-and-run victim says she still has not received justice, despite the South Australian Government’s intervention. Di Gilchrist, the widow of Ian Humphries, has spoken in favour of a proposal by Independent MP Nick Xenophon for a victims’ advocate. Last year the [...]