The Australian Federal Police, who are on a skywards growth and cost trajectory, are developing a paramilitary wing, Bruce Haigh says. Because ministerial management is lacking, they are becoming a law unto themselves, he warns.
AFP spreads wings wider…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, responding to CLA’s Australia Day letters, is refusing to review the procedures, conventions and laws around how Australia goes to war or becomes involved in >conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. CLA is calling on interested…
The fragility of democracy, particularly when war is in the air, was the theme of CLA Director James Staples’ speech to officially launch, in the national capital, the Liberating of Lady Chatterley and Other True Stories: A History of the NSW Council for…
Broke? Fed up with lawyers? Want to make a personal statement? If any of these apply, you’ll be forced or tempted to represent yourself in court. Here’s some English advice.
Sir Robert Peel (UK politician, prime minister and prison reformer, 1788-1850) established the first Metropolitan (that is, London) police force, based at Scotland Yard, and reportedly developed the Peelian Principles. How do you think your State police…
The February bulletin has details of a CLA letter to Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, asking him to intercede on behalf of an Afghani journalism student sentenced to death for what we in Australia would call normal and democratic university activity. Ther…
Australia should campaign vigorously to try to overturn a death sentence due to be carried out on a uni student in Afghanistan for ‘discussing women’s role in society’ using information downloaded from the internet. CLA has asked Foreign Affairs Minister…
A vote in one Australian mainland Territory is worth twice its weight in the other Territory – why are Australian citizens treated so unequally, in voting and other ways? In this special article for CLA, Australia’s election guru and CLA member Malcolm M…
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has re-committed the government to undertaking ‘an Australia-wide inquiry” into human rights. “The Australian Government is committed to the promotion of human rights – a commitment that is based on the belief of the fu…
Susan Carew is a CLA member dedicated to values education and social empowerment. She has clowned with Patch Adams in Russia, in hospitals and on the streets, and in 2008 undertakes further peace and conflict studies in Thailand. Here, she tells how trut…
