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…
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…
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…
Civil Liberties Australia invites you to read these factual reports which illustrate some of the Australian Crime Commission’s track record, and shine a light on how competent, or otherwise, the Australian Crime Commission is. You be the judge.
The re…
Palms sweaty you wait in an airless office studying a brown outback-rural printed artwork, with the odd sheep, that’s memorably forgettable. Here, nervously about to pitch for the job of your dreams, you run through pre-prepared answers. ‘What qualitie…
p>City burghers around Australia – many of them undemocratic wowsers – are getting heads as big as whoppers. They appear to think that petty power entitles them to dictate how the rest of us live. One even wants to eliminate the rights of minorities…
A CIVIL liberties group says Labor’s proposed national anti-discrimination laws have removed the only protection for people against genetic discrimination in the workplace.
The government’s Bill to prevent discrimination is introducing new discrimination into how people with genetics defects are treated. Either inadvertently or deliberately, the government has omitted a key clause which was in the old Act. If it remains ou…
‘No taxation without free choice of personal peccadilloes’ should be the new catch-cry of smokers, says a CLA member partial to a puff. He’s incensed by the hypocrisy of political bullies happy to rake in tax revenue from smokers. And another similar mo…
The NZ High Court has delivered an unexpected puff of freedom of choice to the inmates of Auckland Prison. They can, from now, smoke…something they were barred from doing 18 months ago by regulation. The High Court said the way the ban was brought in…
