Who is being wrongly convicted in 2008, asks Keith McEwan as he reviews a book by and about a woman who spent virtually all the 1990s behind bars, wrongly convicted. Framed by a police officer in a conspiracy with her own husband, she needed enormous str…
It’s official, in black and white, and under the signature of ACT Attorney-General, Simon Corbell: ACT Police must abide by the ACT Human Rights Act. For four years, ACT Policing have claimed they are not obliged to operate under the human rights legisla…
The Australian Federal Police, who are on a skywards growth and cost trajectory, are developing a paramilitary wing, Bruce Haigh says. Because ministerial management is lacking, they are becoming a law unto themselves, he warns.
AFP spreads wings wider…
CLA spokesman Max Jeganathan’s comments are being read far and wide, with the US legal website Jurist asking for what CLA thought of AFP Commissioner Michael Keelty’s recent outburst against the media. Read what Max said.
See the article on the ‘Jurist…
Sir Robert Peel (UK politician, prime minister and prison reformer, 1788-1850) established the first Metropolitan (that is, London) police force, based at Scotland Yard, and reportedly developed the Peelian Principles. How do you think your State police…
The comments made by Jennifer Saunders about police makes my skin crawl. It is said that Libertarians are not anti police- What rubbish. Maybe police should start treating protesters like they do in Pakistan or Russia. I have witnessed many protests firs…
The Australian newspaper – not traditionally anti-police or security services – has summed up how seriously ex-Minister Andrews failed Australia by "…engaging in a cynical attempt to ramp up the Howard government’s security credentials".…
Coroner Karen Fryar’s finding in the Clea Rose inquiry is extremely disappointing. As the parents point out, public safety and human life should be paramount in police decisions about whether or not to pursue suspect vehicles.
This police purs…
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties helped to break the back of archaic Australian censorship laws by taking the fight to Sydney’s streets, which were then rife with police corruption. The Liberating of Lady Chatterley and Other True Stories is the tale…
The Australian Government has introduced a Bill to allow the Federal Police to block or censor web content. The police, with limited oversight by courts, would decide what Australian’s can read, see or hear on the net. CLA believ consensus approach to ac…
