The Australian Government is about to censor your access to the internet: they will decide what you will be allowed to see and read, hear and view. The censorship will ban websites ‘they’ don’t want you to know about.
CLA is forming ‘Action Cells’…
Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib has written a book entitled My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn’t (Scribe Publications $32.95).
The book, reviewed in the Weekend Australian 25/26 Oct 08 by Natalie O`Brien, tells of Habib`s ordeal. After being…
While concerns are being expressed about the plight of most Australians being adversely affected by the developing world-wide recession, the fate of 25,000 ‘out-of-sight’ citizens incarcerated in our jails should not be ‘out- of- our- minds”‘. Of special…
Do the rights of Indigenous people to traditional ceremonies on traditional lands comprise ‘property’? Two CLA members asked to appear as ‘friends of the court’ on the question as part of a High Court case involving the NT ‘intervention’ of 2007, but per…
New sexual assault and violence laws passed in haste just before an election may have blinded the courts to proper scrutiny of evidence, barrister Shane Gill writes. Real justice, unlike TV dramas, has to deal with a range of motives, complainants not ne…
It comes as no surprise that Civil Liberties Australia has given the Government an “inconsistent” assessment on its human rights performance (“Rudd Labor ‘inconsistent’ on human rights: report”, Canberra Times, October 4, p8).
Last week, in its respon…
Australians living in Britain will be forced to carry identity cards from November 2008 and pay about $75 for the privilege. A new law does not mandate carrying the card, but for all practical purposes you’ll be a non-entity without it. The card flicks a…
Do you where your old mobile phone is now? Did you wipe it clean before you got rid of it?
Every year, about 60,000 mobile phones and 6000 PDAs are left in cabs in Sydney (based on estimates from London statistics). Data security is the responsibility…
The article, “Victoria is failing its prisoners.” (The Age 3/10) deserves a response from the responsible government Minister. While people are concerned about the quality of service provided in our schools, hospitals and nursing homes the treatment of t…
The best way to encourage people to blow the whistle on waste and corruption was to pay them part of the money they helped to save, according to ANU legal experts, Prof Tom Faunce and research associate Tim Vines (pictured), a CLA member. They explained…