Electoral Reform Green Paper – Strengthening Australia’s Democracy
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Premier, etc ‘unwise to comment’
In South Australia, with an election close, both Labor and Liberal politicians play the ‘law and order’ card constantly in the media. But in doing so, the Chair of the SA Council for Civil Liberties warns, they are being both unfair and unwise, partic…
Why Ferguson’s rights matter
A correspondent has lashed out at people like us for supporting convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson, out of jail after completing his sentence but being hounded from pillar to post. Here’s the reply, by CLA CEO Bill Rowlings, to the writer Lenny who…
America: what have you become?
News coverage of America’s Taxpayer March on DC, 12 September 2009, shows hundreds of signs with words now given new meanings: communist, socialist, fascist, Nazi. Equating the current American administration with any of these demonstrates ignorance, or…
Governments should divert youths from prison
State and Territory Governments in Australia are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on locking juvenile offenders behind bars, when diversion programs are both cheaper and more effective. Mission Australia, like CLA, calls for targeted reduction of…
Should kids be ‘shopped’ for photo over-exposure?
Teenage years are for experimenting, and doing ‘stuff’ that’s blush-making years later. But the elephantine web remembers peccadillos: should young people already blighting their futures with reveal-all photos also face a criminal penalty? Melanie Pe…
Lowering voting age should follow pension change
If the Rudd Government is to change the pension age from 65 to 67, it should also review other critical age limits, CLA’s Raffaele Piccolo says. In particular, the voting age should drop to 17 (from 18) for today’s better educated, better informed and be…
Privacy clouded as Gen Y publish online
Prof Roger Clarke says Generation Y are all Rupert Murdochs, every one of them, as they incessantly publish details about themselves and others online and in the cloud. The result is that notions of privacy are changing so rapidly there’s need for a radi…
Congratulations to employer for presuming innocence
Dear Sir, I refer to your report “Photographer faces sex charges” by Gary Adshead, May 19, 2009.I congratulate PhotoCoffee boss Kingsley Klau, of Rockingham, for his total support for his 21-year old employee, who has been charged with child sexual a…
Parents keep close watch on their children
A new research report by an agency belonging to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy shows clearly that parents keep a close eye on their chilren’s use of the internet, and that they trust their kids to be responsible online. Minister Conroy appears…