There’s a need for a cross-party pact to ensure the Senate functions properly in future, no matter what the party split in the Senate is, CLA says. Read the media release calling for all parties to announce their support for such an agreement.
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CLA strongly supports transparent and accountable government that, in part, is enabled by strong freedom of information legislation. CLA has welcomed the tabling of a Bill in the ACT Legislative Assembly that addresses the increasing tendency to reduce a…
Is it fair to tobacco retailers for the ACT Government to pay 15-year-old ‘spies’ to encourage cigarette sales to minors? What effect will a cross-examination grilling in court have on the young double-agents? CLA Director Anthony Williamson studied the…
ASIO has too many people…and its getting 500 more; ASIO has too much money…and it’s getting 80% more; ASIO has too little meaningful work to do…so it will have to find new ways of spying on you and me. The Federal Government must rein in ASIO now,…
Belgian sociologist Jean-Claude Paye believes David Hicks’ treatment by America and Australia has ramifications far beyond a simple nine months jail term. Hicks’ rendition from Afghanistan and detention in Guantanamo – as well as his subsequent local jai…
It is annual report time and the Commonwealth Ombudsman declares that the vast marjority of complaints against the AFP are unsubstantiated.
What a joke.
The citizens should know that the Ombudsman’s office does not actually investigate those complain…
The overall diminishing of Australian society and the inevitable decline in public fairness and people’s freedoms is a consequence of the false premise that the market is always correct.
This is the mantra of government, particularly at federal level…
Is the following document so secretative that the Department of Education and Training really believes you should not see it – form your opinion about what makes it?
Civil Liberties Australia has been an observer of the Freedom of Information reques…
Are Scipione’s boys above the law or has the police state arrived? There are requirements for officers to wear their ID, but for APEC, what the heck.
The question is who ordered the IDs to be taken off as they are the officers responsible for such a b…
The Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Mr Polley, is trying to ban someone from Parliament and its precincts for six months…but it appears he doesn’t have the power to do so and, if he did have, he’s chosen the wrong premiss.
Speaker Mic…
