When should equality turn the other cheek? CLA’s Roger Smith (pictured), a lawyer and human rights worker for 10 years, believes Australia lags North America and parts of Europe on men’s rights to equal treatment in failed marriages. Elsewhere, authoriti…
The Rudd Government’s approach to same-sex civil unions proposed by the ACT Government has turned out to be consistent: consistently hypocritical. This article explains the background, just as the ACT’s watered-down legislation is about to be debated.…
A bill prohibiting discrimination and bias by health insurers and employers based on people’s genes has passed both Houses of the US Congress by a vote of 509-1. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act is a powerful shield for Americans. Meanwhile,…
CLA welcomes the Rudd Government’s planned removal of discrimination against same-sex couples…but it should be consistent, and remove all discrimination, including over ceremonies and registrations, and against Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Te…
Sharpe’s take on Jack Waterford’s article: Executive rule to be feared.
Executive rule to be feared
One of Cardinal George Pell’s set pieces is about the emptiness and ultimate sterility of relativism, and about how important it is to affirm absolute a…
CLA spokesperson Dean Prail spoke with Radio NZ recently over vague proposals in Australia to allow company bosses to spy in secret on employees’ emails, in the name of cyber-security. The Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has since acknowl…
The UK’s High Court has delivered a withering rebuke to the British Government, senior Ministers and the Serious Fraud Office. Neither government nor the executive – or foreign princes – are above the law in a parliamentary democracy, the High Court has…
It’s official, in black and white, and under the signature of ACT Attorney-General, Simon Corbell: ACT Police must abide by the ACT Human Rights Act. For four years, ACT Policing have claimed they are not obliged to operate under the human rights legisla…
The Australian Parliament has a clear responsibility to reinstate the Northern Territory’s Euthanasia Act for two inalienable human rights reasons: an individual has the right to choose life, or death, and all Australians are entitled to equal rights thr…
We need to provide better laws to shield journalists and whistleblowers in Australia says ANU law student Lorraine Ingham after analysing how far Australia lags other English-speaking nations in protecting journalists and sources. Read article here (P…