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Proud nation can be compassionate

26 January 2010 26 January 2010

Being proud of Australia is a good thing on Australia Day, but embedded in nationalism always lurks the danger of an exclusionary attitude to people who are not exactly like us, says James Dunn. The best nationalist is an internationalist, who knows that…

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What causes overcrowding?

18 December 2009 18 December 2009

Editor, The West Australian: Sir, I respond to your report ‘Overcrowding to blame for jail assaults’ TWA 16 Dec 09 p18.
It goes without saying that overcrowded prisons where prisoners are forced to share a cell with other prisoners will always be open t…

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And still the prison population rises…

11 December 2009 11 December 2009

You’d think, from all the posturing by Law & Order (LO) politicians through Australia, that crime was up, but it is down. But what’s really up is the prison population, by 36% (or 7759) from 21,358 to 29,317 over the past 10 years. At nearly $100,000…

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DNA requires debate, legislation

30 September 2009 11 February 2018

New uses for DNA information are permeating Australia without debate about how we want to regulate either a useful guide to health or a tool to discrimate against people who – by accident of birth – are slightly different from whatever ‘average’ is.…

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America: what have you become?

15 September 2009 15 September 2009

News coverage of America’s Taxpayer March on DC, 12 September 2009, shows hundreds of signs with words now given new meanings: communist, socialist, fascist, Nazi. Equating the current American administration with any of these demonstrates ignorance, or…

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Abortion is a health issue

8 September 2009 8 September 2009

Abortion is a difficult societal issue where health concerns are paramount. Women should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Laws around the issue of abortion should be based on health grounds, not criminal penalties.Abortion is a…

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Governments should divert youths from prison

17 June 2009 17 June 2009

State and Territory Governments in Australia are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on locking juvenile offenders behind bars, when diversion programs are both cheaper and more effective. Mission Australia, like CLA, calls for targeted reduction of…

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Should kids be ‘shopped’ for photo over-exposure?

30 May 2009 18 August 2013

Teenage years are for experimenting, and doing ‘stuff’ that’s blush-making years later. But the elephantine web remembers peccadillos: should young people already blighting their futures with reveal-all photos also face a criminal penalty? Melanie Pe…

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Clark’s human rights pedigree examined

26 February 2009 29 October 2020

As New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Helen Clark, puts her hand up for a top UN job, how does NZ’s record on human rights compare with Australia’s, where a bill of rights consultation is just starting?

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*%$#@, just get rid of blasphemy entirely!

24 February 2009 24 February 2009

Blasphemy should be eliminated from the 21st Century legal lexicon. The antidote to blasphemy is a flood of free speech. Australians have always put their faith in freedoms: whatever restricts freedom, restricts our nature and our nation. Read CLA’s subm…

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