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CLA welcomes emphasis on saving lives before pursuits

24 August 2007 24 August 2007

CLA is pleased that the Cameron Report into police pursuits in the ACT has recommended police put greater emphasis on saving life and property than on chasing vehicles. The report, which follows two deaths in police pursuits in the ACT in recent years, a…

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Government tries to hide behind FOI law

21 August 2007 21 August 2007

The ACT Education Department and the ACT Government are refusing to be open and transparent, even over evidence given to a legal tribunal. They are trying to hide behind Freedom of Information laws, but the spirit of FOI legislation calls for disclosure…

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Attorney-General is a wolf crying ‘sheep’

22 July 2007 22 July 2007

Attorney-General Ruddock is criticising lawyers and civil libertarians who are championing the rule of law in Australia, and supporting an Immigration Minister who is denying the presumption of innocence and a police force leaking against all the rules o…

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Minister spits in face of judiciary, flouts democracy

16 July 2007 16 July 2007

A Minister with a track record of not respecting democratically-enacted law has spat in the face of the judiciary by locking up, by his own bureaucratic decision, a man freed on bail earlier the same day by a magistrate. Zimbabwe? A Middle Eastern dictat…

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CLA backs urgency over children, calls for plan

29 June 2007 29 June 2007

ivil Liberties Australia has backed the government’s urgent intervention into Aboriginal issues in the Northern Territory as a legitimate, short-term action. However, longer term planning and activity towards permanent solutions should begin immediately.…

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New spokespeople provide younger face

29 June 2007 29 June 2007

CLA has appointed two spokespeople whose combined age doesn’t reach 50! “They are two outstanding young Australians who are committed to safeguarding liberties, and speaking out responsibly on important civil and human rights issues facing Australia,” C…

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National capital police operate beyond the law

11 April 2007 11 April 2007

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…

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ID card: bureaucrats must correct wrong impressions

10 March 2007 10 March 2007

Government bureaucrats are boosting ‘smart’ card technology while being economical with the truth, CLA says in wide-ranging ID card media release. The national ID card debate is too important: they must correct wrong impressions left with the Parliamenta…

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Governments condemned over FOI restrictions

7 March 2007 7 March 2007

CLA President Dr Kristine Klugman has slammed proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws in the ACT to further restrict the public’s right to know what its government is up to. Governments, Labor and Liberal, throughout Australia were abusing FOI, a…

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Nudge, nudge, ban, ban…the Pill is popped

26 February 2007 10 August 2013

If you want to read The Peaceful Pill Handbook, which provides information on assisted death and voluntary euthanasia, you are now too late. The man who has been unable to get David Hicks freed from Guantanamo Bay in five years, Attorney-General Philip R…

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