Hear Collaery speak on ASIO/East Timor
Hear Lawyer Bernard Collaery explain how he is representing East Timor in the ICJ, and how the Australian government and ASIO have been ordered to stop raiding his Canberra office. 7 June 2015
No power to un-Aussie the native born
The Constitution won’t allow the government to turn natural-born subjects into ‘aliens’ without a referendum. Giving a minister such unbridled power would be ultra vires, says Dr Terry Dwyer. 6 June 2015
TPP will neuter Oz Parliament
Secretly negotiated, signed unseen by the Australian Parliament, handing over sovereignty to multinational corporations and ad-hoc tribunals, there’s a lot wrong with the TPP, Dr Pat Ranald says. 4 June 2015
Who’s afraid of the TPP?
Secrecy hides a potential onrushing tsunami in the form of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, warned MP Melissa Parke in speaking to a new, cross-party forum at Parliament House, Canberra. 27 May 2015
NGOs critique Govt response to UN
Twenty NGOs produced a list of criticisms of the timing, quality, and input process around a major UN report by DFAT during an all-day ‘consultation’ in Canberra this month. 26 May 2015
USA boasts of trade gains over Oz
Is the TPP agreement good for Australia? No, definitely not…not if you read the website of the Office of the US Trade Representative in President Obama’s office. 22 May 2015
AFP rules must cause a pause
AFP guidelines currently provide little restraint on police handing Australians over to potential death by execution overseas. Police should instead be forced to adopt and promote our human rights principles. 4 May 2015
Defence pilloried by Senate test pilot
A law just enacted severely jeopardises expansion and growth of Australia’s research expertise, particularly in academic and science circles, in the name of Defence. The effects could be profound. 23 March 2015
‘TPP agreement must be defeated’
Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders is campaigning to defeat the secret trade deal, which is likely in 2015 to be inflicted on unsuspecting citizens of 12 nations. 6 Jan 2015
Debate fires up over UN reports
Debate heats up as Australian civil society and the government begin to finalise the wording of how we’ll report on human rights progress to the UN in 2015. 24 Dec 2014