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Some freedoms are fundamental to democracy, CLA believes:
- freedom of speech;
- freedom of conscience;
- freedom of assembly; and
- freedom of the person.
Freedom for the stupid is important too
Article posted on Tuesday 31 January 2012Banning flag burning would be doubly unproductive, CLA says in response to an RSL call for a new law to that effect. Australian Diggers fought to ensure Australians enjoyed freedom of expression, which a ban would do away with. As well, forbidding flag burning could well be a strategic error: police might like to identify who is so hostile to Australia they are prepared to burn the flag.
Corrosive laws need amending
Article posted on Sunday 17 April 2011Other nations, like Britain, can review and wind back oppressive, over-the-top laws created in panic after the Twin Towers aircraft attacks in New York 10 years ago. If so, why can't Australia, asks Prof George Williams, where some of the laws are the world's most draconian.
By what right do we protest?
Article posted on Thursday 17 February 2011We won the right to speak openly in public only by repeated protest and group struggle over centuries, Humphrey McQueen told a WikiLeaks rally. It's just as important now to carry forward the oath sworn at Eureka in 1854..."to fight to defend our rights and liberties".
Be afraid of helping Assange!
Article posted on Wednesday 12 January 2011Be afraid, be very afraid!. That's how the US Government and, by extension, the Australian Government wants you to be in relation to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Salon's Glenn Greenwald reveals a long-running government strategy of intimidation, which is what should truly be feared in a democracy.
CLA says: Assange and WikiLeaks
Article posted on Tuesday 07 December 2010Julian Assange has every right to operate in the long and proud tradition of American leakers and journalist/bloggers, who are honoured patriots of that country. And he has the right to expect his own Australian Government will support him, rather than to sell him out to a foreign nation as a first response.
Just a leak to the left,
and a leak to the right...
Article posted on Thursday 05 August 2010
Julian Assange's Wikileaks has brought the US far right out of the woodwork again, where they have been hibernating since President Bush's days. One, Marc Thiessen, seems to be suggesting Assange should be kidnapped and renditioned by the US for revealing information. Trouble is, Mr Thiessen has done exactly the same thing himself, and boasts about it.
What's wrong with bikie laws?
Article posted on Monday 26 July 2010What's wrong with the bikie legislation in NSW, SA and other states? In this interview, CLA Director and Media Spokesperson, Tim Vines, explains to the Atticus program on 2SER radio why bikie legislation is a danger to any form of social protest. Listen to the interview » ...
Lunatic legislation:
Anti-terrorism Labor-style
Article posted on Friday 31 July 2009
The Howard administration anti-terror laws were so poorly thought-out and ill-considered, with numerous unintended side-effects that curtailed our civil liberties, that Labor pledged to review them if elected.
Sedition: Rudd fails to honour promise
Article posted on Monday 06 April 2009The Rudd Government came to power promising to remove sedition from Australian law. Now, rising 18 months into Labor's tenure, the sedition laws are still in place. Will PM Rudd live up to his party's promise...and when will Australians have a legislated right to free speech, James Staples asks?
How ASIO's boss spreads fear using WMD
Article posted on Tuesday 09 September 2008
Bidding to heighten the fear of terrorism to boost his agency's status, ASIO's Director-General has used Weapons of Mass Destruction...just as his boss, the Attorney-General, is downplaying terrorism and signalling a radical change of emphasis towards natural and health disaster preparedness in Australia. ASIO is over-staffed and over-funded, says Bill Rowlings.
A-G warns against apathy, cynicism
Article posted on Monday 14 April 2008
Apathy and cynicism were real problems in Australia, brought on by the 'downsides' of the Haneef fiasco over intelligence in policing agences, the Attorney-General warns. He lists three areas where Australia can improve: none involves more draconian anti-terror laws.
Australians to have net access censored, and cut
Article posted on Tuesday 30 October 2007
The Australian Government has introduced a Bill to allow the Federal Police to block or censor web content. The police, with limited oversight by courts, would decide what Australian's can read, see or hear on the net. CLA believe consensus approach to achieving a Bill of Rights the move would set new lows in freedom of speech in Australia. What do you think? Go to article, and have your say.
The Alford Report: seeking the balance for freedoms
Article posted on Tuesday 05 June 2007
Photo: Amanda Alford, CLA CEO Bill Rowlings and professonal supervisor Ernst Willheim discuss progress during the internship.Photo by Kris Klugman
In five years since 11 Sept 01, Australia has spent $10.4 billion on security, and Parliament has passed 50 new anti-terrorism laws. The Alford Report analyses the legislation, and asks: How can civil society scrutiny and parliamentary review swing momentum towards a less emotive balance point, where traditional freedoms and the rule of law weigh equally with secret power in the hands of the executive government, security forces and the police.
What are civil libertarians concerned about?
Article posted on Saturday 06 January 2007Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
Apathy of youth to sedition
Article posted on Monday 09 October 2006An article from the Canberra Times by a Civil Liberties Australia member on the apathy of youth to sedition. An observation on university students and the lack of involvement in key political debate by Katja Petraello Kukoc.
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