Clark’s human rights pedigree examined
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?
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?
Are western ‘democracies’ becoming Big Brother surveillance societies? The House of Lords has produced a major study of the issue, with lessons for Australia: here’s an expert precis of it by Dr David Murakami Wood, as well as reference to the full re…
I have observed with interest since the Corruption and Crime Commission of WA has been in operation that it has brought down adverse findings against many people. On the face of it, it seems generally that’s where its authority stops. There seems to…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a US law aimed at shielding children from pornography online violates the constitutional right to free speech. The American ruling is a severe embarrassment to Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who is…
CLA has motivated the Privacy Commissioner, a national statutory office holder, to investigate how young people’s privacy is almost certainly being abused by nightclub owners, who photograph, fingerprint and data log patrons before allowing them in. Read…
Is WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission protecting individuals against excesses by the Executive arm of government? Or is the CCC a major sinew of that arm, party to excess as it ‘fingers’ possibly innnocent people? Barrister and former WA Premier, Peter…
While I am far too old to be attending night clubs now, I have many nieces and nephews who have mentioned to me that one of Canberra’s larger night clubs (ICBM) is requiring patrons to be fingerprinted and have their driver’s licences and faces scann…
Draconian, misleading and a possible invasion of privacy _ that’s how Civil Liberties Australia webmaster and director Lance Williamson describes Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s mandatory internet filtering plans in this Canberra Times article.…
Experts have formally reported to the Rudd Government that their proposed web censorship plans are ‘fatally flawed’, and that their web filter would fail., As well, ISPs are increasingly going public to point out major problems. When will Communications…
Nightclubs appear to be clearly breaching the privacy of patrons who are being forced to undergo fingerprint, face and driver’s licence scans before being allowed admission. CLA has asked the Office of the Privacy Commissioner to launch an ‘own motion’ i…