Terror boosters – security people whose jobs depend on fear – have conjured a new cash competition with the winner being whoever produces the scariest imaginary scenario. CLA is not averse to making a buck or two, so here’s our first entry…Blood on th…
The Gillard Government is ramping up another assault on civil liberties and human rights in Australia. No fewer than four – 4 – formal inquiries are under way, with a likely outcome 18 months from now of greater intrusions into our personal lives an…
Airport bullying – where the government sets out to belittle and humiliate you for wanting to travel – is as big a problem in the US as in Australia. There, a Senator is fighting back with proposed laws to empower flyers and restrain authorities. But se…
As the Australian Government introduces another “trial” of body scanners, the future is revealed in this article from a US industry magazine, ‘Security Management’. The article also discloses that, for the millimetre wave scanners chosen by Australia ,…
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…
Editor, The Age: It is an alarming practice for the Attorney-General and the Immigration Minister to leave the running of refugee assessments to ASIO (‘ASIO : No calls for refugee reviews’, The Age 25/5). This serious failure by government ministers to…