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C of Brisbane on Freedom for the stupid is important too
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Ed on Beef up public access to FOI, expert says
Jacek on 'Black fellow' tag costs man his job
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.
February 2012 Newsletter:
Compulsory health survey asks intimate
questions; ABS asked to justify stance
Article posted on Tuesday 31 January 2012
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is raising people's hackles with its intrusive, intimate and compulsory health survey, currently in the field. CLA and the Australian Privacy Foundation are asking the Australian Statistician whether the ABS has complied with all the parliamentary steps needed before such a survey is authorised to be mandatory. Other government departments - Attorney-General's, the spy agencies, Resources and Energy – are coming under increased scrutiny for their secretive ways and expanding surveillance of citizens.
Laws enforce protection, but ignore freedom
Article posted on Friday 27 January 2012The wearing of bike helmets and car seat belts engages the classic liberty v public good argument. Bill Curnow, a CLA member, gives his opinion that there has been little evidence-based analysis of the public good. It's time for some independent and open inquiries, he says.
PM asked to back up her words by launching an
inquiry into Australians' freedoms, democracy
Article posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012
On the death of a mother and her children…
Article posted on Thursday 19 January 2012The anomalous situation of the Family Court in WA, and the need for better resourcing of family courts everywhere, are poignantly highlighted after the tragic deaths of a mother and her two children from a family caught in a long-running dispute. Peter Dowding explains the court's problems...
Extradition to US is doubly doubtful
Article posted on Wednesday 18 January 2012Mark Summerfield, a patent attorney, analyses the current UK alleged piracy/copyright extradition case with major international ramifications. As well, there's links to the NYT coverage of proposed new US laws which are even more draconian, and to an SMH story of the real-life experience of an Australian extradited and jailed in the US for a similar 'offence'.
Minister can drive reduced homelessness
Article posted on Tuesday 17 January 2012
It's not often you get a chance to profoundly make the nation a better place, but new Homes and Homelessness Minister Robert McClelland has just such an opportunity. He needs to gather disparate policies across portfolios and stop them pulling in different directions to the detriment of Australia's downtrodden.
Prevent assault, rather than investigate later
Article posted on Monday 16 January 2012People found innocent in court are fully exonerated, and should be treated that way, CLA's Rex Widerstrom says. With the hideous offence of sexual assault of children, it is better to focus more resources on programs to prevent the crime rather than to concentrate on police task force investigation after the event, he says.
Law & order adjudged to need evidence
Article posted on Tuesday 10 January 2012Just like any other government initiative, law and order measures – such as extra police, tougher penalties, etc – should be evaluated for cost-benefit success or cost-effectiveness by an independent agency, says crime bureau chief Don Weatherburn. And he says, we need a better informed public and more rigorous scrutiny by the media.
More police powers? No!
Article posted on Saturday 07 January 2012
In spite of immensely powerful criminal laws, police always lobby for 'tougher laws' and 'steeper penalties' whenever a nasty crime hits the headlines, even when crime is rapidly falling, says Dr Buck Emberg. They should just get on with it, he says, and deliver simple law and order to the people who pay their salaries.
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