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Prisoner rehabilitation can increase safety

6 March 2009 6 March 2009

Editor, The Age: A recently released research paper on Recidivism by Corrections Victoria reveals who returns to the 13 prisons in Victoria.
At a time when the prison population is rapidly expanding, with 4183 in prison in 2007, showing an increase…

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How many captured by Australia have been renditioned?

3 March 2009 3 March 2009

How many Iraqis and Afghans have Australian troops captured since 2002? The Defence Minister won’t say. Have any been renditioned, or tortured after being handed over to other coalition forces? The Defence Minister won’t or can’t say. The Australian peop…

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It’s time! Terror laws due for major review

26 February 2009 26 February 2009

One of the world’s most respected legal bodies, the International Commission of Jurists, reported in February 2009 that the anti-terrorism laws passed after 11 September 2001 by Australia and other nations have undermined the rule of law and harmed th…

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Obama force-fed nonsense over Guantanamo Bay

25 February 2009 25 February 2009

Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of naval operations, told President Obama on 20 February that conditions at the Guantanamo base met the standards of the Geneva Conventions. For an alternative reality, read this indictment of appalling conditions…

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Australia Day Letters 2009

27 January 2009 24 July 2013

Civil Liberties Australia each year selects 2-4 topics for Australia Day, drawing the attention of people in positions of power to opportunities for change and improvement in Australian society, or to problems that need fixing. The 2009 letters cover: Es…

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Indigenous prison rate scars Australia Day

25 January 2009 25 January 2009

Neglect of social issues has swelled the number of indigenous people, particularly youth, in State jails and detention centres, former Labor Premier Peter Dowding says. The new WA Liberal Government deserves the opportunity to show it can make a differen…

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Patriotic “justice” costs high-flying mum her kids

24 January 2009 24 January 2009

As Australian Parliamentarians are about to legislate for a new three-person panel to review our terrorism laws, they could do no better than contemplate an American case where the US Patriot Act delivered ‘justice’ gone mad.The case also highli…

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Arms, sinews and fingers get crossed at the CCC

21 January 2009 21 January 2009

Is WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission protecting individuals against excesses by the Executive arm of government? Or is the CCC a major sinew of that arm, party to excess as it ‘fingers’ possibly innnocent people? Barrister and former WA Premier, Peter…

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More questions need to be answered in Haneef case

29 December 2008 29 December 2008

As David Marr comments in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty is no more than a ghost in the Clarke report finding on his role. He doesn’t get a mention. Nothing. He gets off scot-free in what must be the most bl…

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Closure is first step in restoring reputation

25 December 2008 25 December 2008

No laws, no protection, no ethics, no justice…this was Guantanamo Bay, terra nullius under President George W Bush. President Barack Obama’s closing the hellhole will be just the first step in what might be a generation-long bid to rehabilitate America…

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