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Category: Submission

Category: Submission

While the MPs holiday, we must work

2 January 2014 3 January 2014

While MPs fly, sail and ski off to their holidays, they leave behind masses of work for voluntary bodies over the break. Oh, and they are getting paid, we aren’t.

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Stating objects key to Patents Act

30 September 2013 30 September 2013

IP Australia must give proper weighting to community rights in deciding the formal ‘objects’ for the Patents Act. Australia must also be free to address clear societal need.

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Standing up for right to boycott

29 September 2013 29 September 2013

Early in any government, maverick Ministers are a danger. CLA has written to Senator Colbeck, reminding him the right to free speech trumps corporate commercial demands

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CLA warns over privacy limitations

CLA warns over privacy limitations
23 June 2013 20 July 2013

In a rushed process, the Senate’s SLAC committee (Senate Legal And Constitutional affairs) is examining a privacy amendment that may have significant effect on our online rights. CLA recommends broadening a definition so that ‘harm to identity’ includes…

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PM’s new COAG law would repress freedoms

16 April 2013 16 April 2013

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is proposing all states adopt new laws against bikies that would potentially repress every Australian’s freedom of association. A future federal, state or territory government could selectively use a law, supposedly targetin…

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Give the terminally ill freedom to choose

16 March 2013 3 September 2013

People who are terminally ill – but also disabled – should not be discriminated against, CLA says in a submission on a voluntary assisted dying law for Tasmania. Lead author Richard Griggs explains why rights over our own bodies are uncontroversial, and…

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CLA asks Privileges to end censorship…of CLA

26 January 2013 26 January 2013

CLA has been censored by a Parliamentary Committee, which is refusing to publish online a submission by CLA. The reason, the committee says, is that the CLA submission reflects poorly on a public official. But the CLA submission is merely reporting what…

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Govt to penalise people with genetic defects

24 January 2013 11 February 2018

The government’s Bill to prevent discrimination is introducing new discrimination into how people with genetics defects are treated. Either inadvertently or deliberately, the government has omitted a key clause which was in the old Act. If it remains ou…

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Reject discrimination Bill: Do no harm!

21 December 2012 21 December 2012

A Senate Committee should reject totally the deceitfully-named ‘Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012’, CLA says. It is not needed, has dumb and dangerous definitions, would create more problems than it solved, and would effectively censor the…

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CLA supports open reviews for refugees

19 October 2012 19 October 2012

Refugees should have the right to know what information the Australia’s secret intelligence agencies are using to prevent their receiving asylum status, CLA says. We should not create ‘stateless’ people based on shadowy whispers no-one can know about, o…

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