Rights and liberties suffer budget blow
The 2014 budget was of the ‘law and order’ variety, not the ‘rule of law’ variety where human rights and civil liberties receive balanced and equal treatment. Lean years ahead!
Category: Govt. Annual Reports
Monitoring…but govt fails to hear
The Independent Monitor of security law, Bret Walker QC, has done his job well…but successive governments are ignoring what he says, at our peril, Jessie Blackbourn writes.
Liberty loses in the Budget
Cartoon with thanks to John Ditchburn, InkcinctCivil liberties and human rights lost out in Budget 2013. Not only did they lose to the police, security-like agencies and the spooks by not receiving funds, but some civil justice and human rights areas we…
Was this dumbest media conference ever?
We used to have a reputation for ‘world’s best practice model’ in high performance athlete development, and for ‘cutting-edge sports science sports medicine’…but one crime commissioner and two ministers trashed Australia’s reputation and our ‘national…
ACC: drugs report flawed, woeful record exposed
The Drugs in Sport affair has so far focused on the ‘sins’ of sports people. But the real guilty party may be the accuser, the Australian Crime Commission. We warned Parliament in October 2012 that the ACC would destroy reputations, and was dangerous: j…
CLA has been warning about ACC
Civil Liberties Australia has been warning for more than a year about how dangerous the Australian Crime Commission is to Australia’s justice and democracy. We stepped up our warning in the past three months of 2012, and specifically warned in a documen…