Health privacy and security issues lead this issue, with the government careless about your interests in patient health records, and ASIO asking the government for even more money, beyond the excessive amounts they already receive. The extra spook cash…
Cyber issues – crime, computers, the internet and security – are the government’s main preoccupation now, but at least they are consulting, so you can have your say until the middle of November 2011. Elsewhere, the Law Reform people are setting…
The government is actively preventing debate on a secret data store that will hold email and internet activities of every Australian. It refuses to release information because it "could cause…premature and unnecessary debate", according…
August 2011 Newsletter:
Australia to get National Liberty Tree
in December as initiative of CLA
Australia is to get a National Liberty Tree, an initiative of Civil Liberties Australia. The specimen Kurrajong will be planted on International Human…
Vulnerable Australians are falling behind in terms of human rights, just as law and order severity is on the rise, Attorney-General G Robert McClelland admitted last month. Finally, though, after years of pleas by CLA and other bodies, the governmen…
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has strongly reaffirmed the primacy of Australia law in the face of calls for Sharia law to apply for some aspects of Australian life. In further good news, prisoners voting rights have been restored, though in…
US documents on Guantanamo Bay prisoners appear to back up torture and mistreatment claims by Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks (who this month will launch a new campaign for justice). They also highlight how ‘secret’ information held by spook agencies is i…
The Attorney-General apparently spends more time on disasters than on the laws, liberties and rights of Australians. The role has deteriorated into chief spinner rather than protector of Australia’s fair go society. Elsewhere, a Senate committee is enco…
SCAG, COAG and 40-plus other Ministerial Councils are the unconstitutional cliques that nowadays control Australia, with more practical decision-making power than parliaments: they weaken our governance by holding closed meetings with secret age…
Six Australian intelligence agencies are under close scrutiny, with the likely outcome a significant cut in their excessive staffing and resources. Meanwhile, CLA has urged PM Gillard to speak publicly in support of Australian citizen Julian As…