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Category: <span>Health Access</span>

Category: Health Access

Don’t aim stun guns at chest, police warned by weapon’s manufacturer

12 October 2009 12 October 2009

The world’s biggest maker of stun guns, Taser, has done a backflip and is now warning police forces to not aim the weapons at people’s chests. The company appears to be trying to make sure it can’t be sued if people die in future after being stunned by t…

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DNA requires debate, legislation

30 September 2009 11 February 2018

New uses for DNA information are permeating Australia without debate about how we want to regulate either a useful guide to health or a tool to discrimate against people who – by accident of birth – are slightly different from whatever ‘average’ is.…

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Workplace drug testing: caution urged

30 September 2009 30 September 2009

CLA is often asked about rights concerning drug tests in the workplace. Here two Australian academics discuss the usefulness of drug testing procedures and, among other issues, question whether mandatory testing can actually hide some problems that shoul…

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Further independent review of Part 1D of the Crimes Act 1914

8 September 2009 8 September 2009

The CLA submission is available here »…

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Further independent review of Part 1D of the Crimes Act 1914

8 September 2009 8 September 2009

The CLA submission is available here »…

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Abortion is a health issue

8 September 2009 8 September 2009

Abortion is a difficult societal issue where health concerns are paramount. Women should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Laws around the issue of abortion should be based on health grounds, not criminal penalties.Abortion is a…

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New ID system must keep our
private health records secure

14 August 2009 14 August 2009

Any new health records system must safeguard a person’s ownership of their personal medical records, and their privacy from abuse or misuse of the information, CLA says in a submission to those designing the laws and rules around Australia’s new Health I…

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National e-health system confused, critics say

13 June 2009 13 June 2009

Confusion surrounds federal, state and public authority proposals for a national e-health system in Australia, critics say. As competing bodies propose varied systems, no-one is consulting with privacy and civil liberties groups to ensure people’s he…

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Should bureaucrats have access to your health files?

24 April 2009 24 April 2009

Should Medicare bureaucrats be able to pry into your personal health records whenever they like? No, CLA says…but Medicare is proposing new legislation so public servants could peer into your detailed doctors’ files, and at the same time put doctors th…

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Dec 2008 Newsletter – CLA launches anti-filtering campaign

30 November 2008 3 September 2013

CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering – censorship – on adult Australians’ access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website – http://www.censorfree.com.au/ – and a series of eve…

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