CLA’s founding decade has been the toughest in Australia’s history: the battle continues against the fearmongers imprisoning personal liberties in the name of “protecting” our person and coastline.
No obfuscation about ‘security’ can hide that the ‘Five Eyes’ governments, including Australia, have been stealing the privacy and liberties of innocent people worldwide by unreasonable electronic surveillance.
The challenge for Attorney-General George Brandis and the new Abbott government is to live up to their own words about ‘advancing and protecting the rights of the individual’.
A newly-elected government can this month take a principled, moral stand by denouncing PRISM and other surveillance without reasonable cause. It's time Australia showed a lead to the world.
A new 80-minute documentary, Shadow of Doubt, is focusing urgent attention on Australia’s latest miscarriage of justice, like Lindy and the dingo. If it wasn’t for CLA members, there would be no documentary, no such light shone on dark injustice.
The West’s surveillance of the world’s phones, computers and personal data has been much in the news: if there’s any supreme body in control, it is the shadowy ‘Quintet’ which meets annually for the US to hand out riding instructions to the UK, Canada, NZ and Australia. At home,a government in its final days has referred the question of access to justice to the Productivity Commission, just as a retiring former Attorney-General calls for a reduction in jailing of Indigenous Australians…if only he had done so when he was in charge of justice! Among 15 overseas news highlights, the ObamaContinue reading