The number of prisoners in Australian jails rose by 4% in 2008. WA continues to lock up Indigenous people at a very high rate: CLA has asked the WA Attorney-General to mount a special program to bring the Indigenous imprisonment percentage down, but he h…
State and Territory Governments in Australia are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on locking juvenile offenders behind bars, when diversion programs are both cheaper and more effective. Mission Australia, like CLA, calls for targeted reduction of…
Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee India (CLMCI) strongly condemns the racial attacks on Indians in Australia and United States of America. The Governments of Australia and USA failed to protect the life and liberty of Indians. Till date, no serious ac…
WA Corrective Services Minister Christian Porter will not aim to cut Indigenous people in jails from 42% of the state’s prison population to less than 40% by Australia Day 2010 (Indigenous people comprise about 3.6% of the population). He has rejected CL…
SCAG – the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General – is allowing bikies to hijack its work program, CLA believes. SCAG is debating semi-fascist bike club laws from SA and NSW instead of dealing with a priority item on its work program, the massive over-r…
The UN’s Human Rights Committee has delivered severe rebukes over Australia’s recent liberties and rights performance, particularly concerning abandoning some rights, excessive terrorist legislation, indigenous issues across the board – and even the use…
The Australian War Memorial owes it to Indigenous Australians to acknowledge that the frontier wars in Australia were real wars to Aboriginal Australians and others who fought them. It’s time for a more generous spirit by the AWM, says historian Dr Peter…
As New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Helen Clark, puts her hand up for a top UN job, how does NZ’s record on human rights compare with Australia’s, where a bill of rights consultation is just starting?
A United Nations committee is adjudicating on a claim by 20 Indigenous Australians that the federal government’s intervention in the Northern Territory is racist. What will the Australian Government do when the UN finds the claim proven…as it most like…
A special relationship is likely between the Obama Administration and Indonesia, where the new President spent four formative years. But new ties must surmount lingering human rights abuse issues, particularly by elements of the military, in the recent a…