Is WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission protecting individuals against excesses by the Executive arm of government? Or is the CCC a major sinew of that arm, party to excess as it ‘fingers’ possibly innnocent people? Barrister and former WA Premier, Peter…
While I am far too old to be attending night clubs now, I have many nieces and nephews who have mentioned to me that one of Canberra’s larger night clubs (ICBM) is requiring patrons to be fingerprinted and have their driver’s licences and faces scann…
A grandfather walking innocently down a city street is zapped with 50,000 volts, twice, in the head; the police then realise he’s the wrong man, so they just drive away, leaving a physically and psychologically traumatised victim of random brutality. Th…
Draconian, misleading and a possible invasion of privacy _ that’s how Civil Liberties Australia webmaster and director Lance Williamson describes Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s mandatory internet filtering plans in this Canberra Times article.…
As David Marr comments in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty is no more than a ghost in the Clarke report finding on his role. He doesn’t get a mention. Nothing. He gets off scot-free in what must be the most bl…
No laws, no protection, no ethics, no justice…this was Guantanamo Bay, terra nullius under President George W Bush. President Barack Obama’s closing the hellhole will be just the first step in what might be a generation-long bid to rehabilitate America…
Justice Clarke has pilloried virtually all authorities in involved with the Haneef fiasco…but yet again no-one is apparently ‘responsible’ for wholesale incompetence. Buried in the report (pp 285-6) are Australian Federal Police attempts to change the…
Experts have formally reported to the Rudd Government that their proposed web censorship plans are ‘fatally flawed’, and that their web filter would fail., As well, ISPs are increasingly going public to point out major problems. When will Communications…
Because Judges set the standard for what’s a fair go in Australia, their own performance should be capable of being monitored, evaluated and reviewed in a fair, open and transparent manner. The nation needs to be confident it is getting the justice it…
Stun guns are not less-than lethal weapons: Australians will die after being shocked by stun guns, CLA’s Bill Rowlings said this week. He was commenting on detailed analysis of 334 deaths after stun gun use in the USA in just over seven years. Amnesty In…