Category: Treaties
America the brave hides behind bars
Article posted on Thursday 26 August 2010
In a recent series of articles, The Economist queries the sanity of the USA locking away more and more people in jails, some for almost unbelievable 'crimes', at increasingly greater cost year by year. There are lessons here for Australia.Crime and p… more »
The elephant in the room
Article posted on Tuesday 17 August 2010
Each political party complains about how the other parties waste billions of taxpayer dollars. Yet I've not seen or heard any party leader discuss the nearly $2billion annual spend for war in Afghanistan, "security" in Iraq, and physical and mental heal… more »
Students help frame debates
Article posted on Monday 26 July 2010
CLA works with advanced and honours students on topics of mutual interest, where the student gains credits for 'internship' programs or honours studies, and CLA benefits from excellent research papers which help to shape a current or future dilemma. See… more »
Abusing Friends' Identities
Article posted on Thursday 25 March 2010
Britain investigated the "use" of a dozen of its passports in the assassination of Mahmud al-Mabhuh in Dubai. Their investigation determined that Israeli security services were responsible for cloning those passports - passports taken from their owners b… more »
Rights review may spotlight Australia
Article posted on Thursday 04 March 2010
The relatively new Human Rights Council has created new power blocs in international affairs. Australia will come under the spotlight in the four-yearly Universal Periodic Review, in early 2011, of how well we're doing as a nation in terms of ensuring th… more »
UN man slams NT intervention
Article posted on Thursday 25 February 2010
It's official! The UN says that the Rudd Government is acting in a racially discriminating manner and breaching international human rights obligations with its NT intervention. So says James Anaya, the Special Rapporteur, in his Advance report.NT inter… more »
Laws no match for waves of refugees
Article posted on Monday 19 October 2009
Laws can't stop refugees, any more than Canute could stop the tides. Motivated by persecution, hunger or the wish for a better life, people will always seek a distant shore. Australia should, argues Graham Macafee, re-think our approach to refugees to pr… more »
Indonesia must be held accountable
Article posted on Monday 21 September 2009
Will Australia continue complicity in an international cover-up, or at last help Indonesia to examine the decades of brutality by its armed forces, evidenced by the deaths of Australia's Balibo Five journalists? The AFP, by deciding to investigate formal… more »
Dumb government tries to delay truth
Article posted on Wednesday 16 September 2009
Dumb government tries to delay truth (THIS IN BOLD) Will the government never learn? The Balibo Five case demonstrates that the truth will come out, even if it takes 30 years. Now the Commonwealth is trying to deny Australian Mamdouh Habib his day in co… more »
East Timor: where Australia failed
Article posted on Tuesday 01 September 2009
As East Timor celebrates 10 years of independence, a new film - Balibo - recounts the fate of Australian journalists when Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony. Our nation's record over the invasion is appalling, as UN expert adviser on the East… more »
Schapelle Corby: mind matters
Article posted on Sunday 30 August 2009
With Schapelle Corby's health obviously suffering in a Bali jail, the Australian Government must step up efforts for a prisoner exchange agreement with Indonesia, possibly based on emergency mental health grounds in her case. Kay Danes, who has been thro… more »
Double standards on show in Hu case
Article posted on Thursday 16 July 2009
Editor, West Australian: Sir, I sympathise with all concerned with the incarceration in China of Stern Hu of Rio Tinto, suspected of industrial sabotage. However, in relation to the fact that he is now under consideration of being charged, we in Australi… more »
Australia needs to legislate against torture
Article posted on Monday 11 May 2009
As President Obama solidifies the USA's stance against torture, Australia's internal position is still uncertain. We need to legislate locally to make sure torture is as legally repugnant as it is morally, Prof. George Williams says. Our torture laws… more »
Hear how rights have developed in the European context
Article posted on Sunday 26 April 2009
Debate continues about whether Australia should have a bill of rights. Specially for CLA, Prof Simon Bronitt of the National Europe Centre at the ANU outlined the pedigree of rights instruments in the EU system. Listen to his talk (about 30 minutes and… more »
Crime commission laws must comply with treaties
Article posted on Sunday 19 April 2009
States must take cognisance of international treaties ratified by Australia, and no law does the nation a service when it tramples on centuries-old conventions against self-incrimination. CLA's analysis for the NSW Parliament's ICAC committee cautions ag… more »
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