Government secrecy is what makes the existence of WikiLeaks possible, freedom of information expert Johan Lidberg says. If governments were open, transparent and truthful with their people, WikiLeaks might operate only by revealing private sector fibs,…
The government should not be setting up witch-hunts at the behest of the USA to pursue Mr Assange of WikiLeaks, Adrian Rumsey says. Instead, it should be ensuring the freedom of speech of Australians, and working to enhance all our civil liberties.
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Julian Assange’s Wikileaks has brought the US far right out of the woodwork again, where they have been hibernating since President Bush’s days. One, Marc Thiessen, seems to be suggesting Assange should be kidnapped and renditioned by the US for revealin…
Information within government is the people’s information. The starting point for access rights and openness must be that the people are entitled to see and hear everything, with very limited exclusions. Currently, the reverse is true, certainly in WA, s…
Authorities should stop pursuing former Customs officer Allan Kessing, who blew the whistle on major securityy lapses at Sydney Airport. He deserves a reward rather than a conviction. The treatment of Kessing shows how governments treat the public’s righ…
The man who cleaned the corruption pigsty in Queensland two decades ago, Tony Fitzgerald, has been back in the news warning that the bad old days for the State might be on the way back…or was it an alert that the same thing could happen federally, give…
John Brennan, security advisor to the Obama-Whitehouse and respected former senior CIA agent, affirmed that America performed “extraordinary renditions” and hid people in “black site” prisons overseas.
Brennan argues strongly against releasing three…
You might think the head of the Public Service Commission would take some responsibility for a decade of failed federal government FOI and whistleblowing systems – but not Lynelle Briggs. She’s happy to blame the media, lobbyists, the Opposition!
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CLA has launched a campaign to stop the Rudd Government imposting mandatoring internet filtering – censorship – on adult Australians’ access to the internet. The campaign consists of a new website – http://www.censorfree.com.au/ – and a series of eve…
As the Australian Government gets ready to censor the internet, CLA is fighting back with ‘Action Email Cells’ – groups to take the fight to the government. (See Home page article, and lead story in newsletter).Meanwhile the November newsletter a…