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Promoting people’s rights and civil liberties. It is non-party political and independent of other organisations.

  • Human Rights for Oz: when & why PM should act

    12 February 2025
    As the 2025 federal election looms, CLA believes it’s time for PM Albanese’s Labor Party to promise Australia that they will enact a federal Human Rights Act in the next Parliament, if returned to power, before the end of 2026. ATTACHED is CLA’s direct letter to the PM, asking for that promise, and background papers ...
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  • CLArion FEB 2025: CLA calls on Labor to commit to HR Act

    1 February 2025

    Civil Liberties Australia – in its customary Australia Day letter – has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to commit to a social justice program, including a Human Rights Act for Australia, if he and the Labor Party are re-elected in the coming months. After four years of active campaigning, CLA believes a re-elected Labor govt would have plenty of support from the Greens, Independents, and the ‘teals/etc” to pass such legislation. Meanwhile, recent state election results, coupled with the likely return of the govt in WA, means Australia is tilting strongly towards a nationwide police state mentality.

    Other highlights this issue include:

    • Australia breaches human rights, UN says
    • New Premier hurls rhetoric at state's problems: it’s unlikely to work
    • CLA suggests research for an Australian wrongful convictions ‘dashboard' 
    • Govt policies cause fire bombings and murders: how crazy is that?
    • Feds respond at last to surging DV problems
    • Laboratories start to catch up with forensic standards
    • Iraq lowers marriage age of girls to 9

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  • Lawrence pleads for ‘collapsed’ NT legal system

    29 January 2025

    Long term barrister and passionate justice advocate John Lawrence has written about the ‘collapsing’ NT legal system as a new government tries to legislate to prevent crime. That hasn’t worked anywhere, and is unlikely to fare any better in the NT, which faces unique challenges.

     

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  • CLArion Jan 2025: CLA calls on Labor to commit to HR Act

    1 January 2025

    Civil Liberties Australia is calling on the Leader of the Government, Anthony Albanese, to commit his Labor Party to legislating a Human Rights Act for Australia before the end of 2025. “He must commit to doing so during the imminent election campaign, then follow through on the promise if his party is elected as a majority or minority government,” CLA President Dr Kristine Klugman said. “From his first speech in 1996 to now, he has said he is commitment to social justice: now is the time to deliver the fundamental underpinning of human rights legal protections for all Australians.

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