Drugs: health carrots, not sticks
Australian drug policies are not working: criminals are getting richer, prison populations are swelling and there are major national health problems, including deaths from overdoses in every State and Territory. Surely, CLA says, it is time for the new N…
See-through scanners need scrutiny
Some airports overseas are rushing into service full body-revealing scanners. Australia trialled them in 2008 in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide: after a full report, the government had no plans to introduce them…until pressure in early 2010 from the US…
Electoral Reform Green Paper – Strengthening Australia’s Democracy
CLA’s submission is available here » …
CLA welcomes human rights report,
calls on MPs for bipartisan action
CLA congratulates the National Human Rights Consultation Committee for an excellent report and recommendations after an exhausting process. Now it is time for the politicians to respond in a bipartisan way to what the people clearly want – a clear and un…
CLA input helps Security Monitor Bill
The proposed ‘Independent National Security Legislation Monitor Bill 2009’ has benefited greatly from the voluntary input of many civil liberties and human rights groups, including Civil Liberties Australia. The Overview of the parliamentary review commi…
Further independent review of Part 1D of the Crimes Act 1914
The CLA submission is available here »…
Further independent review of Part 1D of the Crimes Act 1914
The CLA submission is available here »…
New law makes everyone a suspect
Everything you own is suspect. With, say, $100,000 in assets, you have to prove you are not guilty of crime. Police – maybe using false identities – can go fishing in your tax files and your private bank records. As you try to fight to prove your inn…
New law combines worst of options
Crime continues to trend down, but wobbly politicians still play the vote-seeking ‘law and order’ card, reacting to rabid media beat-ups. The latest serious crime bill lowers the bar for prosecutors, doubly punishes those who have already served time for…