Caged like a ‘terrorist’ in Cuba, Brenden Abbott has less dignity than a dog. This emotive article by Rex Jory, of the Advertiser in South Australia, concerns a prisoner in Brisbane, Queensland. A Royal Commission into prisons said Australia’s jails woul…
The best way to encourage people to blow the whistle on waste and corruption was to pay them part of the money they helped to save, according to ANU legal experts, Prof Tom Faunce and research associate Tim Vines (pictured), a CLA member. They explained…
A reflective John Faulkner, Special Minister of State and Cabinet Secretary, mused about the principles underlying privacy while presenting the inaugural industry awards in August. Read the thoughts of the man who will be responsible for Australia’s new…
An independent review of terrorism legislation passed since 9/11 should compare the laws with agreed principles of what Australians’ civil liberties, rights and responsibilities should be. That’s what CLA has told a Senate Inquiry into a proposed private…
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Bidding to heighten the fear of terrorism to boost his agency’s status, ASIO’s Director-General has used Weapons of Mass Destruction…just as his boss, the Attorney-General, is downplaying terrorism and signalling a radical chang…
Police in the ACT have just received legislated power to break the law, and to allow criminals to break the law. CLA says this guarantees that there will be police corruption in the ACT within the next 5-10 years, if the pattern in every other jurisdicti…
Until now, there’s been no way to adequately rank how nations perform internally on Freedom Of Information requests, or internationally compared to other countries. West Australian CLA member Dr Johan Lidberg’s world’s first FOI Index, now in development…
Secrecy is the golden staph infecting government and bureaucracy throughout Australia. CLA often rails against it in whistleblowing, FOI, federal police and ASIO areas, but here’s medical proof of how bureaucratic control freaks in government are harming…
Special Minister for State, Senator John Faulkner, explains in this speech – at the launch of the Australian Privacy Awards – how stakeholder consultation and a new ‘Pathfinder’ process within APEC will be used to establish robust and workable internatio…
The UK’s High Court has delivered a withering rebuke to the British Government, senior Ministers and the Serious Fraud Office. Neither government nor the executive – or foreign princes – are above the law in a parliamentary democracy, the High Court has…