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,"…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.