A new global rating, which ranks how open access to information is within a country, places Australia in the middle, FOI expert Dr Johan Lidberg (pictured) says. We’ll know more about really how free and easy information is here, if it is, when…
Should Australians have the right to be forgotten online? We want your opinion.
There’s an emerging debate over what data we store, how we store it, who can access it and how widely it can be searched and promulgated.
At the heart of the debat…
CLA closely scrutinizes government action which infringes the general right to be left alone. If this right is to be infringed, and the Government demand we hand over personal information, we expect the benefits to outweigh the cost and inconvenience. W…
The open access that the UK’s Independent Reviewer of terrorism laws, David Anderson, has to secret agencies “reflects the importance which our democracy attaches to rigorous independent scrutiny of the many exceptional powers given to authorities to de…
‘The cause for which we stand and when we must, fight, is freedom,’ says Malcolm Turnbull in a thoughtful analysis of effects from the WikiLeaks/Assange matters. He also points out that the High Court in Australia is unlikely to protect the secrets of a…
Harmless-sounding international conventions are the latest favoured way for governments to sign away individual liberties, and allow international spying on private data. Anti-rights ‘crimes’ are increasingly being committed by our politicians in the na…
Rather than pillory Julian Assange, and ‘shop’ him to the US Administration to meet whatever fate, the Gillard government should stand up for him…and for the world’s right to free speech, even if honesty and transparency doesn’t suit the Americans, CL…
Wouldn’t it be good if, on Australia Day, PM Julia Gillard spoke out in support of the right to freedom of speech of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks? If she spoke up, it would prove the accuracy of Michael’s Parkinson’s Australia Day comment that he had se…
Be afraid, be very afraid!. That’s how the US Government and, by extension, the Australian Government wants you to be in relation to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald reveals a long-running government strategy of intimidation, which…
The USA’s proposed new ‘Shield Bill’, aimed at thwarting WikiLeaks, would would be likely to constrain public servants only, due to First Amendment protections, according to U. Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone.
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