We must hang on to essential freedoms
There’s a danger we could sleepwalk our way into losing our liberties, Michael Cornish says, as he examines some disturbing trends in how people are being treated. 10 April 2015
There’s a danger we could sleepwalk our way into losing our liberties, Michael Cornish says, as he examines some disturbing trends in how people are being treated. 10 April 2015
A proposed harsh new mandatory sentencing law – jailing even more Indigenous children – would simply increase taxes on WA citizens without clear benefit. It should be amended, CLA says. 18 March 2015
Shock jocks can do good…but they can also do great harm as naysayers, like when they joined with rabid tabloids to sabotage brand new NSW bail laws in mid-2014. 16 March 2015.
In another of its excellent series, the NSW Parliamentary Library has analysed data for reducing reoffending by prisoners…and come up with some surprising results of what doesn’t work. 10 March 2015
What type of society do we really live in? Lawyer Louis Coutts examines how the rule of law has been pretzeled to the detriment of justice by Australian governments. 8 March 2015
Massive government data retention attacks our values: presumption of innocence and right to privacy. It is fundamentally much more than a debate over storage, says Arved von Brasch. 3 March 2015