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Contempt for accountability is danger, says Evans

16 November 2006 16 November 2006

Politicians in power tend to regard the disclosure of information about their activities as a subversive tactic of their rivals and opponents…A contempt for opponents easily leads to a contempt for accountability and for accountability processes,"…

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Is advocating trial of Hicks a war crime?

12 November 2006 12 November 2006

A group of eminent Australian lawyers have prepared an opinion about the continued detention of David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay and his proposed trial by a Military Commission. The opinion has potentially alarming implications for the Federal Government a…

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China treaty involves risks of state executions

6 November 2006 6 November 2006

Late-2006 saw a new Australia-China treaty on mutual assistance in criminal matters. CLA Director – Death Penalty Project, Vic Adams, considers the treaty and its implications in the light of China’s record of thousands of state executions annually. Go t…

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CLA reviews key annual reports – ACT Human Rights Office

26 October 2006 26 October 2006

CLA members are analysing and reporting on the annual reports of key Australian and ACT departments and agencies. The assessment of the ACT Human Rights Office has been completed.

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What makes the government run?

24 October 2006 24 October 2006

The Australian Government and the Australian Federal Police have been running hard on the ‘Moti Affair’. What drives them to mount a second case against the lawyer? Is it what barrister and CLA member John Purnell SC asks in a penetrating rundown of the…

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‘Fair go act’ needed in an age of terror

16 October 2006 16 October 2006

Australians should have same rights as Canadian, UK, German and NZ citizens. Unlike their British, Canadian or German counterparts, Australian judges have little if any power to subject the unprecedented anti-terrorism laws to judicial scrutiny. And in t…

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Apathy of youth to sedition

9 October 2006 9 October 2006

An article from the Canberra Times by a Civil Liberties Australia member on the apathy of youth to sedition. An observation on university students and the lack of involvement in key political debate by Katja Petraello Kukoc.

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New Sedition Laws: Defending or Subverting Freedom?

14 September 2006 14 September 2006

The paper presented by Simon Bronitt to the Public Forum Program of Civil Liberties Australia (ACT) Inc and Independent Scholars Association of Australia, supported by the National Library of Australia on Sedition in Canberra, Thursday 14 September 2006.

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Are our rights under threat?

8 August 2006 8 August 2006

This thoughtful, scholarly analysis of civil liberties in Australia after 11 September 2001 was presented to a University of the Third Age (U3A) forum in August 2006 by Allan Hall, founding partner of Canberra legal firm Snedden, Hall and Gallop and…

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CLA Reviews ASIO’s Annual Report

29 June 2006 29 June 2006

In its annual report for 2005-6, ASIO singles out Sunnis Muslims in Australia as ‘extremists’. The secret spy agency also demonstrates that it hasn’t learned lessons from the New York Twin Towers disaster in 2001…and reveals there are 48 ASIO employee…

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