How come many hundreds of personnel carrying weapons, some who almost certainly have committed crimes under international law, can enter Australia without Customs or security questioning, Humphrey McQueen asked in a speech outside Parliament House durin…
After four years of lobbying, CLA’s proposal for the government to report details about people we extradite to face trial overseas has been adopted by the Attorney-General’s Department. The AG’s annual report will in future carry reports of extradition…
CLA’s submission is available here »…
Once again, this time in Sydney, a self-selected group of Attorneys-General from the West is meeting to decide – without reference to the Australian parliament – the shape of Australia’s future laws. It’s time MPs stood up to be counted against such ema…
Editor, West Australian: The Prime Minister is obliged to support a Presidential clemency for Andrew Chan, an Australian citizen, in Indonesia. In doing so, she is supporting the UN Human Rights Charter which advocates all nations abolish capital punish…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has called for politicians to abandon short term political goals and treat asylum seekers and Indigenous disadvantage through a human rights-based approach. After a six-day visit here, she is also…
EXCLUSIVE: Parliament should be more involved in any decision to go to war…and even more involved in a decision to stay at war, says retired General Peter Leahy, the man responsible for our soldiers for most of the Afghanistan war so far. He calls for…
‘The cause for which we stand and when we must, fight, is freedom,’ says Malcolm Turnbull in a thoughtful analysis of effects from the WikiLeaks/Assange matters. He also points out that the High Court in Australia is unlikely to protect the secrets of a…
Harmless-sounding international conventions are the latest favoured way for governments to sign away individual liberties, and allow international spying on private data. Anti-rights ‘crimes’ are increasingly being committed by our politicians in the na…
Imminent new extradition and mutual assistance laws should incorporate the strong recommendations made by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, at CLA’s instigation, for Australia to monitor and report to Parliament annually on the subsequent fate o…