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.
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…
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…
Mr Staples proposes a simple way for Australia to adopt a working Bill of Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights, he says, has worked with general satisfaction there for 50 years, and there is a considerable body of case law in Europe showing in…
James Staples is a former barrister and federal judge with a long professional experience in public law. He proposes a new draft law to be put to the Parliaments of the States and the Commonwealth, directed to secure in their respective jurisdictions fre…
The pioneering paper under the ANU/CLA program was produced in 2006 by Brooke Horne, now with Minter Ellison. Horne’s paper investigated the status of environmental refugees, such as Pacific Island people affected by rising sea levels, under internationa…