When WA Police plan to repeat the same measures that led to the alarming rise in the road toll this year , and threaten drivers with draconian speed camera installations, it’s hardly a recipe for cutting deaths on our roads. Police should find a different, better approach to help cut deaths, Rex Widerstrom says.Read media release » …
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…
The WA Government has fired the first blunderbus shot in turning the March state poll into a ‘Law and Order’ election, CLA’s WA Director, Rex Widerstrom, told ABC Radio today. They propose a draconian tracking device plan for people released from pr…
Just as an outsider was needed for the original Rayney murder case in WA, so outsiders should comprise the three-person appeal panel, CLA’s Rex Widerstrom says. The appeal judges need to be just as free to criticise the appalling behaviour of WA Police…
Rather than making their first recourse the banning or penalising of human activity, academics should seek constructive ways to help empower people to live fuller lives freer of restrictions, CLA’s Rex Widerstrom says. It’s time academia paid as much at…
No political party should gag the freedom of speech of its candidates – that’s un-Australian as well an unconstitutional, CLA’s WA Director Rex Widerstrom says in a media release. His comments follow a Liberal HQ order curtailing what candidates may and…
As Santa Claus begins his happy rounds, the statistics people are surprising harassed Christmas Mums with a snap and mandatory survey on energy and consumption. Give it a break, ABS! Surely you can leave people alone over the holiday period.Read one Mum…
The not guilty verdict in the Lloyd Rayney murder trial, during which retired Chief Justice Brian Martin said WA Police behaviour had been “reprehensible” and “unacceptable”, clearly demands that the State Government hold a major inquiry – even a Royal…
CLA supports a NSW plan to clean up Kings Cross, but giving police the power to deploy dogs sniffing crotches on trains right across the entire metropolitan area of Sydney – without having to seek a warrant from a judge – doesn’t seem to make sense. It’…
A new Corrections Minister usually brings hope but, for some women prisoners of Bandyup jail in WA, reality is sleeping on the floor of a crowded cell, head jammed against a toilet bowl. CLA’s WA Director Rex Widerstrom calls on Minister Murray Cowper t…