AFP rules must cause a pause
AFP guidelines currently provide little restraint on police handing Australians over to potential death by execution overseas. Police should instead be forced to adopt and promote our human rights principles. 4 May 2015
CLA urges compelling-only appeal test
In a welcome initiative, Tasmania is reviewing how people who may be wrongly convicted can get their case back before a court. CLA is proposing improvements to the bill. 29 April 2015
Bill is pernicious danger to rule of law
A Bill, proposed by Immigration Minister Dutton would give contractors, trained to nightclub bouncer standards only, the right to decide when and how hard to bash refugees in detention. 22 April 2015
Prisons: learning the right lessons
Politicians and prison executives need to think differently about imprisonment: more funds and extra effort put into rehabilitation, with less mandatory sentencing, will pay off, says Doreen Moulds. 14 April 2015
Govt produces ‘worst legislation so far’
Data retention legislation is awful, but the Minister Dutton’s proposed ‘Refugee Riot Act’ breaks all the international rules about human rights of anyone, not just refugees, CLA says. 8 April 2015
12 unite against youth jailing
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
How shock jocks sabotaged bail
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.
What works, what doesn’t, in jails
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
Anti-consort laws make rogues of us all
The ACT, with its Human Rights Act, like Victoria, is no place for anti-consorting laws which the Attorney-General is proposing. Such laws makes rogues of us all. 23 Feb 2015
Journalists jailed, slain in huge numbers
Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste’s return to Australia from jail in Egypt focuses attention on the alarming rise in deaths of journalists worldwide, as the numbers in jail also rise. 2 Feb 2015