CLA’s CEO Bill Rowlings has generated a storm of letters in the NT News after he criticised the fact that police in the Territory are given blanket immunity from prosecution under the NT Mental Health Act. The debate follows the death inside Royal Darwin…
The latest statistics on the health of Indigenous Australians continue to question when will we learn as a nation to do better? Aboriginal children born these past few years are in for a tougher, sicker, shorter life than other Australians, Keith McEwan…
Ken Davidson, editor of Dissent magazine and also a leading columnist on The Age newspaper, has analysed in straight economic terms why the current approach to drugs is wrong. He supports a switch to low-cost, high-impact programs.Time to start think…
Every police patrol in the NT will carry at least one stun gun by Christmas, with 100 new weapons taking the NT Police total to 230. In 2009, Kwementyaye Rubuntja, 39, died from heart failure after being stunned twice in Alice Springs. The NT coroner fou…
Despite adequate resources and general goodwill, ‘significant improvement’ continues to elude Indigenous Australians, even in the national capital, Aboriginal Justice leader Brendan Church writes. He provides a 10-point list of ways improvement is possib…
CLA member Keith McEwan is concerned for all creatures, including smokers. He postulates that a dedicated room, with facilities, might bring them back in from the cold in more ways than one.
Smokers at risk in the dark
Editor, The Age: While most peo…
Victoria is one of the more enlightened states in looking after Indigenous people…but still the statistics are appalling, as this analysis by Keith McEwan (pictured) points out. “Life is not so good for an Indigenous person living in Victoria…or, for…
Australian drug policies are not working: criminals are getting richer, prison populations are swelling and there are major national health problems, including deaths from overdoses in every State and Territory. Surely, CLA says, it is time for the new N…
CLA has long argued the need for national legislation so Australians can find out what their DNA tells them without suffering penalties under insurance and superannuation rules. Cheaper DNA testing, sometimes sponsored by insurance companies, is bringin…