I write to applaud The Canberra Times editorial (April 2, 2007). It is a deeply thoughtful and challenging piece. We in Civil Liberties Australia are deeply disturbed by the response to terrorism that is basically lawless, and breeches fundamental human…
Quietly inserted in the Japan ‘Treaty’ is a provision for the exchange of information between police forces. So we now have yet another country with the death penalty to whom the AFP can export the death penalty for Australians and other nationalities,…
The article by Hugh Selby ("Outrage over Hicks a beacon for justice", March 5, p17) is an excellent exposition of Hicks’s tragic circumstance. Read with the article by Michael Otterman below it, it is also deeply disturbing.…
First the war was about weapons of mass destruction. Then it was about regime change.
The first was never fought, the second has been won.
But the "coalition of the willing" is still battling on; now it’s part…
At what point does the Police Minister, and most importantly the Chief Police Officer, conclude that ACT Policing is breaching its contract to provide efficient and effective policing?
Yet again, the courts have found that police…
I have in the past been proud to be an Australian. When I met yanks and Brits overseas I felt at least equal to them (perhaps more than equal) but now Australians stand less tall in the world.The US Military Commission’s laws for Gatanomo Bay detai…
THE rules of criminal evidence and procedures under Australia’s system of law are designed to deliver fairness and justice to the accused and the community. Philip Ruddock, Alexander Downer and John Howard have been abusing language in their use of th…
…and still haven’t paid them back
The public scandal of how whites, including Australian governments, stole blacks’ wages for generation after generation is still not resolved. CLA member Keith McEwan extracts key highlights from a book…
Reading Gwynne Dyer’s article, "Police against drug prohibition make a case" (January 9,) I am reminded of a letter I sent to a local paper 18 years ago. The letter was in support of a Victoria Police chief superintendent who had called for…
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock declares that the Australian Government is pressing the Americans to try David Hicks as soon as possible. The big question is: why haven’t they tried him already? The answer is, of course, as Ruddock and Prime Minis…