What are civil libertarians concerned about?
Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
If you can’t get through to the SMH site, you can read it here.
Apathy of youth to sedition
An article from the Canberra Times by a Civil Liberties Australia member on the apathy of youth to sedition. An observation on university students and the lack of involvement in key political debate by Katja Petraello Kukoc.
New Sedition Laws: Defending or Subverting Freedom?
The paper presented by Simon Bronitt to the Public Forum Program of Civil Liberties Australia (ACT) Inc and Independent Scholars Association of Australia, supported by the National Library of Australia on Sedition in Canberra, Thursday 14 September 2006.
Are our rights under threat?
This thoughtful, scholarly analysis of civil liberties in Australia after 11 September 2001 was presented to a University of the Third Age (U3A) forum in August 2006 by Allan Hall, founding partner of Canberra legal firm Snedden, Hall and Gallop and…
Sedition inquiry should be extended six months
CLA has today (22 June 2006) called again for the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into sedition legislation to be extended for six months. “If Attorney-General Ruddock can extend the Cole Oil-for-Food Inquiry for three months, he should extend…
Sedition
Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission, asking the ALRC to request more time to conduct a proper inquiry.
Read submission here.