‘Hidden’ victims ofA new report – Intimate Partner Abuse of Men – has revealed that about one in three cases of domestic violence in Australia are against men. Government-funded public awareness campaigns and different training within the health and welfare sector are n…
Do the ‘bikie laws’ breach rights?What does CLA think of the SA legislation – the ‘bikie laws’ – now being considered, on appeal, by the High Court. Does the Act breach an individual’s human rights, we were asked by a student?Dear Ms XXXXX,Serio…
Police should not investigate police deaths in custody, CLA’s Keith McEwan says. There needs to be an independent body set up for such cases – justice demands no less, he says.
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Attorney-General Robert McClelland has the opportunity to resolve an overwhelming injustice by acting on the Bryce case, where a man who could not be jailed elsewhere in Australia languishes in a Queensland jail on a federal charge. The time to act is no…
Streets littered with liberties lost“I’ll never be affected by abuse of civil liberties: it won’t happen to me”. But, as Susan Carty explains, you can be accused and convicted on an Australian street – even when innocent – if someone whose identity is kept secret reports youfor littering,…
The Rudd government pans to set up a secret list of people suspected only of arson, and to possibly restrain, detain or put suspects under active surveillance for three months every year. The proposals , which represent a new low for civil liberties in A…
Police and the Police Minister in WA seem determined to introduce a system where people are penalised by loss of demerit driving points if they can’t prove themselves innocent. The proposal to reverse the burden of proof is a further example of how the…
Coroner says police should cut chasesState Coroner Michael Barnes has told Queensland police they should not get involved in car chases with drunk drivers. His findings, after a detailed examination of 10 major chase death incidents over three years, provides a new benchmark for Australia,…
Britain investigated the “use” of a dozen of its passports in the assassination of Mahmud al-Mabhuh in Dubai. Their investigation determined that Israeli security services were responsible for cloning those passports – passports taken from their owners b…
Aborigines bear the brunt ofAborigines continue to be massively over-represented in the nation’s jails. But in WA, the situation is beyond dire: Aborigines are closing in on being half the total number of people jailed in the state, when they comprise only about 3% of the state’s…