Australia’s National Capital police force – a ‘business unit of the Australian Federal Police – fail by their own performance standards, a detailed CLA analysis of their annual report shows. They appear more interested strategically in image than policin…
The police who rule over Australia’s national capital operate to their own laws in a closed, secretive manner, Dr Kristine Klugman says. They claim they are immune from the ACT Human Rights ACT and the Public Disclosure ACT, and they refuse to be respons…
Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
If you can’t get through to the SMH site, you can read it here.
The Centrelink 2005-2006 annual report, and a media release from the agency’s chief executive officer, Mr Jeff Whalan, show deplorable standards of personal information security in the agency behind the government’s push for a new national ID card. Read…
How experienced are the sworn officers of ACT Policing when 60 per cent have had less than five years’ experience? In NSW the figure is a more balanced 36 per cent.
Is the policing contract with the AFP giving the territory what it is payin…
Is ASIO showing signs of being out of control? That’s the question Civil Liberties Australia poses after analysing in detail the ASIO 2005-6 annual report to Parliament. ASIO’s thinking is dangerously casual, it blames just one section of the Australian…
CLA members are analysing and reporting on the annual reports of key Australian and ACT departments and agencies. The assessment of the ACT Human Rights Office has been completed.
In its annual report for 2005-6, ASIO singles out Sunnis Muslims in Australia as ‘extremists’. The secret spy agency also demonstrates that it hasn’t learned lessons from the New York Twin Towers disaster in 2001…and reveals there are 48 ASIO employee…
CLA position paper to the 12-month review
Read paper here (157kb PDF file).