@Bot4Sale @ajsadauskas @australianpolitics The arrests still happen, cops routinely violate the Charter, but often, after grinding through the courts for years, charges are tossed out.

The state will always be repressive when it wants to be.

@ajsadauskas @australianpolitics Interesting. Here in Canada we went through this process 40 years ago with the incorporation of the "Charter of Rights and Freedoms" into our constitution in 1982. Prior to that we were like you, using British common law. The Charter isn't perfect by any means, but on the whole it has expanded rights and been a positive thing.