Treaties Committee adopts CLA’s proposals:
* New AFP rules may prevent ‘Bali 9’ situations
* Extradition outcomes ‘should be monitored
CLA expects the charter of rights and responsibilities debate to get under…
The Attorney-General’s Department received $2.8 million in one line item in the 2008 Budget to run a Charter of Rights and Responsibilities debate throughout Australia in 2008-9. A formal consultation process is expected, with possibly a panel of expe…
A strategy roundtable in Sydney in June aims to corral NGOs into sticking to agreed key messages during the upcoming national debate over a charter of rights and responsibilities for Australia. The roundtable, sponsored by HREOC and a law centre at UNSW,…
Attorney-General Rob McClelland signalled the Australian Charter of Rights and Responsibilities debate was likely to begin mid-year when CLA met with him in March. At the same time, the pace of writing submissions and making representations is heating u…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, responding to CLA’s Australia Day letters, is refusing to review the procedures, conventions and laws around how Australia goes to war or becomes involved in >conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. CLA is calling on interested…
The February bulletin has details of a CLA letter to Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, asking him to intercede on behalf of an Afghani journalism student sentenced to death for what we in Australia would call normal and democratic university activity. Ther…
CLA’s members in WA, NSW and the ACT are preparing for a range of new activities through 2008, starting with research into Corruption and Crime Commission operations and potential journalist shield laws in WA.Goulburn in NSW will host a CLA meeting with…