Civil Liberties Australia

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

  • CLArion December 2024: New bid to ‘overturn’ Bromley in HC

    1 December 2024

    The frustrations with a High Court which got it totally wrong in the Derek Bromley case may be countered by a novel way of securing a ‘different verdict’. Dr Bob Moles explains how fraud might be able to trump criminal law. Elsewhere in this issue, read about the shocking coronial situation exposed in the Senate, judges all over the place…and a federal Human Rights Act campaign about to be refreshed.

    Other highlights this issue include:

    • Governments and agencies failing the nation’s children
    • CLA calls for full Commission of Inquiry in Tasmania’s ’Two Decades of Error'
    • Security Monitor to probe accuracy and over-use of terrorism laws
    • How reliable are decades-old memories, of kids and septuagenarians?
    • A-G ’sentences’ three prisoners to six years more jail on his own say-so
    • Lies are legally OK in the USA

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  • CLArion Nov 2024: Laws, kids, judges under scrutiny

    1 November 2024

    Parliament regularly passes laws that infringe Australians’ human rights: here’s a rundown from just one recent report. As we debate whether the Senator or the King transgressed more, experts are saying new conservative governments in the north are 'taking our kids back to the darker ages'. A judge blames everyone but judges for a low opinion of the legal system, but examples abound of how the quality of the law is much strained, particularly in the south, by judicial shenanigans.

    Other highlights in this issue include:

    • Ask no questions, find no corruption: new ICAC methodology 
    • Dreyfus wants to shut Robodebt stable door: passing a HR Act will do it
    • Research body launches police ‘misbehaviour’ dashboard 
    • $100m to be wasted on wrong type of kids’ ‘jail’ system
    • Abiding by human rights helps national trade…even with World Cups
    • US judge recants: frees prisoner jailed for 5 life terms after mere 27 years

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  • CLArion Oct 2024: Priorities for next government

    1 October 2024
    A Human Rights Act, reform of courts and evidence practices, as well as a wholesale overhaul of how we think about and treat Indigenous Australians, particularly the kids, are the priorities for the 2025 federal government from day 1. These are not party-political issues, but merely benchmarks for an improving and better Australian society for all its people. Civil liberties and rights people – all Australians – should demand no less.
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  • CLArion Sept 2024: Lies and spin take away liberties and rights

    11 September 2024
    This CLArion addresses the types of lies, untruths and spin that end up costing us dearly in liberties and rights, which can cause tragedy as shown in children’s jails in WA and adult jails around the nation. The WA Department of Justice has admitted lying…but how many other departments, agencies and police/prison bodies are doing the same? 
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