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Author: <span>Lance Williamson</span>

Author: Lance Williamson

CLA’s Policy – Genetics/DNA

11 February 2018 13 March 2018

Genetics and DNA issues need special consideration by the State. The best-possible protections should be enforced in legislation.  Read CLA Policy on Genetics and DNA

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DFAT misses a chance to listen

11 February 2018 23 February 2018
What were once excellent consultations by DFAT with NGOs recently became one-way lectures, from DFAT, to the detriment of everybody. Let’s hope it reverts in style next meeting. 11  Feb 2018
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A lemon remains a lemon when withering

2 February 2018 2 February 2018

The ’new’ Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is likely as bad as the original, but the text is still secret, so it may be worse. Ideology is over-ruling common sense. 2 Feb 2018. 

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Australia Day: Better Parl. Committees

31 January 2018 29 December 2020

The federal Parliament’s Committee system needs thorough overhaul, preferably by an external body, CLA believes. Which groups of MPs will have the courage to demand review and analysis.  26 Jan 2018

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Australia Day: Better trained judges?

Australia Day: Better trained judges?
31 January 2018 3 February 2018
Surgeons need double or triple qualifications, so do top academics; pilots need specialist training on each aircraft. Why is it that judicial officers alone need no secondary qualifications? 26 Jan 2018  
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Basques book: chilling lessons for now

21 January 2018 21 January 2018
The Catholic terroristl Spanish Inquisition, as described in the ‘Basque History of the Word’, holds chilling parallels to Australia right now, writes Stuart McRae. Witch hunts apparently never end. 21 Jan 2018
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Jan 2018 newsletter: OPCAT to help change attitudes as liberties decline

1 January 2018 1 August 2019
CLA celebrates one success as OPCAT is ratified, opening up jails and detention centres to inspection, but much work remains to expose aged care issues and combat declining liberties. 31 Dec 2017
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Quest for ‘security’…at what cost?

Quest for ‘security’…at what cost?
6 December 2017 6 December 2017
Terrorism is a threat, but we should not allow it to be greatly exaggerated:  we acquiesce in the erosion of our liberties and freedoms at our peril, Saul Eslake says. 5 Dec 2017
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Dec 2017 newsletter: Prioritising needed for range of issues to be tackled in 2018

Dec 2017 newsletter: Prioritising needed  for range of issues to be tackled in 2018
30 November 2017 30 November 2017

Aged care rights and freedoms of sportspeople and in sport are two issues that need greater attention in 2018…but what other matters should be prioritised, do you think? 30 Nov 2017

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Refugees help us lead on crime prevention

25 November 2017 25 November 2017

Until Australia was elected to the UN Human Rights Council, with the resulting increased attention on our treatment of refugees, I hadn’t realised what a world leader in crime prevention we really are. As Australian politicians have repeatedly said, the indefinite detention in concentration camps for the refugees who were

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