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Category: Cartoons

Category: Cartoons

Torture…from the other side

20 December 2014 5 January 2015

Does it help to see things from the other side, as brilliant cartoonist Jen Sorensen asks in this thought-provoking cartoon on torture from a different angle?  20 Dec 2014 

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Liberty loses in the Budget

Liberty loses in the Budget
17 May 2013 10 July 2013

Cartoon with thanks to John Ditchburn, InkcinctCivil liberties and human rights lost out in Budget 2013. Not only did they lose to the police, security-like agencies and the spooks by not receiving funds, but some civil justice and human rights areas we…

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Refugee policy: long march into tyranny

Refugee policy: long march into tyranny
17 April 2013 10 July 2013

 How we treat child refugees says a lot about us as a nation. We’re on a downhill slide, says Graham Macafee, and the prospects are we’ll end up with unthinkable cruelty to children, whereas now we’re just plain cruel, inflicting on children the type of…

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ACC: drugs report flawed, woeful record exposed

ACC: drugs report flawed, woeful record exposed
15 February 2013 21 July 2013

The Drugs in Sport affair has so far focused on the ‘sins’ of sports people. But the real guilty party may be the accuser, the Australian Crime Commission. We warned Parliament in October 2012 that the ACC would destroy reputations, and was dangerous: j…

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2012: Year of the Boiling Frog

14 December 2012 14 December 2012

“The number and variety of threats to civil liberties of Australians during 2012 approached almost unprecedented levels,” says John Roskam, head of the Institute of Public Affairs. When commentators from all sides of politics start sounding warnings, it…

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Priests, penitents, confessions…and children

27 November 2012 27 November 2012

The sexual abuse inquiry confessional Cartoon by Inkcinct
The Royal Commission into Abused Children will run into a minefield of conflicting rights and law: rules of evidence and of witnesses (including, perhaps, children), rights of the child, of reli…

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tent Embassy!

27 May 2012 27 May 2012

Cartoon by INKCINCT

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ELECTION 2010:
Where parties stand on liberties

19 August 2010 19 August 2010

CLA asked 10 questions of parties (and some independents) standing for the 2010 federal election. Here are the replies of those who took the trouble to respond.Cartoon: thanks to Inkcinct, John Ditchburn – click to enlarge.Read more »…

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Compassion should underpin our new response to refugees

1 May 2009 27 December 2013

New arrivals seeking refuge should receive a different response from that of a decade ago, writes James Dunn, ex-diplomat and human rights expert. Australia has a moral obligation to show compassion to people ‘facing the kind of despair we have never had…

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Minister Conroy explains how net bans work…

26 March 2009 26 March 2009

See related CLA article

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