CLA reviews key annual reports – ACT Human Rights Office
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.
Category: Articles
What makes the government run?
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…
‘Fair go act’ needed in an age of terror
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…
Apathy of youth to sedition
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.
New Sedition Laws: Defending or Subverting Freedom?
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.
Are our rights under threat?
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…