CLA President, Dr Kristine Klugman, has formally asked the chair of the new Human Rights Committee, former Speaker Harry Jenkins, for his committee to define what the peoples rights are, based on the seven major Conventions Australia has ratified. The d…
Read about the new national campaign, co-led by CLA and involving MPs, researchers and scientists, to take back our rights over human genes from big companies who claim patent control over the very essence of our being. Also, be alerted to two m…
As airport scanners enter see-through mode at Australian airports, and the parliament fails doubly on human rights (once over refugees, once over Aborigines), the second half of 2012 seems primed for conflict. Heading for collision are the federal pa…
Abandoning all previous pretexts to the contrary, federal Justice Minister Clare has admitted he does exactly what he’s told by the police. That includes giving police the power to ban people from working and earning their living based only on "…
In an approach the Minister admits is designed to make Public Service employees afraid, the Australian Government will try to entrap its police, customs and other employees. The ‘war on workers’ will be waged by the government purposely putting ‘hon…
The Australian Government will inflict see-through airport scanners on Australians mid-year, in a move totally unjustified on facts, figures and research conducted here in Australia and overseas: CLA continues to fight for a ‘pat down’ choice at the ver…
The CEO of the Australian Crime Commission would potentially become a J. Edgar Hoover figure, with almost limitless power to pry and to dispense information as he saw fit, under proposed legislation before parliament. CLA has warned of the dangers of…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is raising people’s hackles with its intrusive, intimate and compulsory health survey, currently in the field. CLA and the Australian Privacy Foundation are asking the Australian Statistician whether the ABS has compl…
Australia’s Attorney-General admitted last month that the nation operated to no clear set of counter-terrorism priorities over the past 10 years: in other words, tens of billions of dollars have apparently been wasted in scattergun spending on thousands…
Australia’s own National Liberty Tree, an initiative of CLA, will be planted this month. But as a new tree brings hope, there’s despair as the government trundles down the path of a national e-health system putting safety and privacy at risk; health aut…