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Category: Sedition

Category: Sedition

EU fights back against US surveillance

1 October 2013 1 October 2013

The EU Parliament may protect whistleblowers for life, and pay them, in a bid to fight back over US phone and internet surveillance on non-US citizens, a new report suggests.

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World moves to rein in US spying

1 October 2013 1 October 2013

The world is fighting back against overweening US surveillance of private global communications, such as phone calls and emails, with moves to create a new protocol to human rights agreements.

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Preventative detention: abolish it, says report

22 May 2013 3 September 2013

Two reviews agree with Civil Liberties Australia: the excesses of the terror laws need to be wound back. Preventative detention laws should be abolished, according to the Independent Monitor of these laws. Rhys Michie gives a rundown on the two recent r…

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National security gets review…at last

10 July 2012 10 July 2012

There’s to be a review of national security. CLA has been campaigning for such a review for years, but we meant a review to remove the excessive restrictions, the over-burden of surveillance, the sweeping away of privacy, etc. Seems the government’s new…

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Assange: Silence conspires with injustice

28 June 2012 28 June 2012

When supporters of liberties and rights get together, it’s called a conspiracy. When the forces of authoritarian repression, government misgovernance and corporate greed get together, it’s called the status quo. Noted author, commentator and speechifie…

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WikiLeaks helps interpret, change the world

12 March 2012 20 July 2013

Regulating information to the masses has been the cornerstone of power retention throughout the ages, historian Humphrey McQueen told a Support Julian Assange gathering in Sydney. ‘We could do with a WikiLeaks here in Australia’, he says, to sort out ba…

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Freedom for the stupid is important too

31 January 2012 31 January 2012

Banning flag burning would be doubly unproductive, CLA says in response to an RSL call for a new law to that effect. Australian Diggers fought to ensure Australians enjoyed freedom of expression, which a ban would do away with. As well, forbidding flag…

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‘We must fight for freedom’

22 April 2011 20 July 2013

‘The cause for which we stand and when we must, fight, is freedom,’ says Malcolm Turnbull in a thoughtful analysis of effects from the WikiLeaks/Assange matters. He also points out that the High Court in Australia is unlikely to protect the secrets of a…

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Corrosive laws need amending

17 April 2011 17 April 2011

Other nations, like Britain, can review and wind back oppressive, over-the-top laws created in panic after the Twin Towers aircraft attacks in New York 10 years ago. If so, why can’t Australia, asks Prof George Williams, where some of the laws are the w…

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By what right do we protest?

17 February 2011 17 February 2011

We won the right to speak openly in public only by repeated protest and group struggle over centuries, Humphrey McQueen told a WikiLeaks rally. It’s just as important now to carry forward the oath sworn at Eureka in 1854…”to fight to defend our rights…

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