CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering – censorship – on adult Australians’ access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website – http://www.censorfree.com.au/ – and a series of eve…
Stereotyping clouds thinking over relationship violence, says CLA member Roger Anthony Smith. The Australian Government has no place funding and promoting biased campaigns that support one sex while stigmatising the other – that’s against basic human ri…
Considerable CLA effort, along with that of experienced and astute lawyers, has produced much-improved sexual and violent offences legislation in the ACT. The CLA-inspired changes better define violence, allow the media to cover cases, and make videoing…
Proposed new Sexual and Violent Offences law will not work, and will cause a procedural breakdown in the courts, says experienced barrister Ken Archer. Two other barristers are also highly critical, while Canberra Times Editor-at-Large Jack Waterford say…
The future directions for laws and legal matters in Australia is determined in three meetings a year of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG), which also includes New Zealand.
The July 2008 meeting covered a range of important matters, incl…
When an Indigenous girl is gang-raped, sometimes the justice system goes on trial. But what of our society and ourselves, by inattention permitting a festering inequity that breeds an inevitability of trouble. Peter Applegarth SC of Queensland Council fo…
The Rudd Government’s approach to same-sex civil unions proposed by the ACT Government has turned out to be consistent: consistently hypocritical. This article explains the background, just as the ACT’s watered-down legislation is about to be debated.…
CLA welcomes the Rudd Government’s planned removal of discrimination against same-sex couples…but it should be consistent, and remove all discrimination, including over ceremonies and registrations, and against Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Te…
ivil Liberties Australia has backed the government’s urgent intervention into Aboriginal issues in the Northern Territory as a legitimate, short-term action. However, longer term planning and activity towards permanent solutions should begin immediately.…
Why is the language of war so sexually laden, asks CLA member Dr Neal Wilkinson. He analyses Iraq from the perspective of a male pack rape: truth may be the first casualty of war, but women bear the greatest burden, he says. A special International Women…