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…
Tasmania still has anti-freedom-to-blog laws that South Australia this month canned before the 20 March 2010 elections expected in both states. In Tassie, you can be fined $12,000 AND sent to jail for three months for not putting your name and address a…
Why the scanners are wrongThroughout Australia, people are making personal decisions about full-body airport scanners. If you are against them (or for them), you can have your say by writing to the man responsible for the decision. Here Kathy Lund’s point of view.
To Mr Alban…
Filtering – or censoring – Australia’s internet: what’s the full story? Here electronics engineer Arved Von Brasch explains the background to filtering, censorship, blacklists, classifications, etc… and recommends a better way forward. Internet Fi…
The comment below results from this article: http://www.news.com.au/national/dna-tags-forqueenslands-future-child-criminals/story-e6frfkvr-1225817732108 Message: Bill Rowlings’ comment on DNA tagging for kids suggests to me that he’s not suitable for a…
Prison spending and the prison population both are going through the roof, in the USA, UK and Australia. In California, America’s almost bankrupt state, Governor Arnie Schwarzenegger is biting the bullet and slashing spending on prisons to allocate more…
The Labor Government’s internet filtering plan is seriously flawed, says electronics engineer Arved Von Brasch. Even above technical problems, the reach of the existing ‘Refused Classification’ extends beyond child porn, and there’s enormous scope fo…
You’d think, from all the posturing by Law & Order (LO) politicians through Australia, that crime was up, but it is down. But what’s really up is the prison population, by 36% (or 7759) from 21,358 to 29,317 over the past 10 years. At nearly $100,000…
An Aboriginal boy, taken from his mother at four days, was taken from Australia at five years. Now a convicted murderer in the USA, he wants to return to Australia to complete his 25-year sentence. Keith McEwan, who has experience of Aboriginal adoption…
Christmas Island is full; the Red Block is over-stuffed; the Rudd Government’s promises and policies over refugees are in tatters. Out of this unholy mess, Marie Gordon writes, at least we can have the decency to transfer refugee children and infants, wi…