CLA questions whether Australia’s citizenship test should be continued at all. If kept, it certainly must be reworked to be fair and equitable to refugee and humanitarian migrants, CLA’s media release says. Immigration Minister Chris Evans should act imm…
In other nations, Presidents and Prime Ministers can declare war…but they must get full approval of their legislatures by various mechanisms. In Australia, the power to declare and wage war is shrouded in uncertainty, without the benefit of mandated e…
All Australians are not equal. The 500,000-plus citizens of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are discrimated against under the Australian Constitution and by laws of the Australian Parliament, contrary to international human ri…
A vote in one Australian mainland Territory is worth twice its weight in the other Territory – why are Australian citizens treated so unequally, in voting and other ways? In this special article for CLA, Australia’s election guru and CLA member Malcolm M…
The Independent MLA for Sydney, Clover Moore, has spoken out about how in NSW – and throughout Australia, CLA says – executive government is emasculating the rights of the people’s representatives by changing operating rules and procedures. CLA has long…
There’s a need for a cross-party pact to ensure the Senate functions properly in future, no matter what the party split in the Senate is, CLA says. Read the media release calling for all parties to announce their support for such an agreement.
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If Australians fear unionist power, why would that be so? Or is there in fact a rising tide of even more deep-seated suspicion of employers, just waiting for one or other party to curtail with curbs on bosses and their salaries? This telling Norman Abjor…
The overall diminishing of Australian society and the inevitable decline in public fairness and people’s freedoms is a consequence of the false premise that the market is always correct.
This is the mantra of government, particularly at federal level…
The Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Mr Polley, is trying to ban someone from Parliament and its precincts for six months…but it appears he doesn’t have the power to do so and, if he did have, he’s chosen the wrong premiss.
Speaker Micha…
The Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Mr Polley, is trying to ban someone from Parliament and its precincts for six months…but it appears he doesn’t have the power to do so and, if he did have, he’s chosen the wrong premiss.
Speaker Mic…