Each Australia Day, CLA suggests initiatives to make Australia work better. In 2007, we propose recouping Immigration bonuses paid wrongly to senior staff who deported Australians, ending the practice of the Customs Service censoring books (which is not…
I have in the past been proud to be an Australian. When I met yanks and Brits overseas I felt at least equal to them (perhaps more than equal) but now Australians stand less tall in the world.The US Military Commission’s laws for Gatanomo Bay detai…
…and still haven’t paid them back
The public scandal of how whites, including Australian governments, stole blacks’ wages for generation after generation is still not resolved. CLA member Keith McEwan extracts key highlights from a book…
Australia’s privacy expert, Professor Roger Clarke, susses out that there will be much more emphasis on "security and terrorism’ issues during 2007 as he analyses the predictions of the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre. See what the expe…
Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
If you can’t get through to the SMH site, you can read it here.
This link is to an official FBI report which details treatment that FBI people saw being handed out to Guantanamo Bay detainees. Click on Part I for an easy-read summary of the information contained in Part II. Note that the released information, obtaine…
The Centrelink 2005-2006 annual report, and a media release from the agency’s chief executive officer, Mr Jeff Whalan, show deplorable standards of personal information security in the agency behind the government’s push for a new national ID card. Read…
The Law Council of Australia is irate at the Attorney-General Philip Ruddock’s treatment of David Hicks, so it’s no surprise that the legal profession’s dissatisfaction has been being reflected in Christmas cards. Here’s the 2006-7 card of Blumers Lawyer…
A woman dies after a police pursuit, raising questions about pursuits and about the inordinate time coroners’ inquests are taking, as well as bringing into relief the attitudes of police in the ACT to the community and the media. Read the article by CLA…
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,"…