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Breakthrough: police start to listen

27 June 2007 27 June 2007

CLA congratulates police for listening to the community and introducing training for all officers serving in the watchhouse. Introducing watchhouse training was they key recommendation in CLA’s submission to the ACT Watchhouse Review, run by police and t…

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Rudd’s rush to silence cursing unionist is a Howard hallmark

23 June 2007 23 June 2007

The actions of Kevin Rudd in seeking to have a trade union official expelled from the Labor Party because of words that the official spoke, reflect a continuing assault on the rights of individuals to speak freely without fear or favour.Evidently such…

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The Alford Report: seeking the balance for freedoms

5 June 2007 5 June 2007

Photo: Amanda Alford, CLA CEO Bill Rowlings and professonal supervisor Ernst Willheim discuss progress during the internship.Photo by Kris Klugman
In five years since 11 Sept 01, Australia has spent $10.4 billion on security, and Parliament has passed 5…

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Teaching the wrong lesson about free speech

8 May 2007 8 May 2007
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Sexual language shapes world of war

6 May 2007 6 May 2007

Why is the language of war so sexually laden, asks CLA member Dr Neal Wilkinson. He analyses Iraq from the perspective of a male pack rape: truth may be the first casualty of war, but women bear the greatest burden, he says. A special International Women…

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EFT code review – help rein in business

12 April 2007 12 April 2007

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is reviewing the Electronic Funds Transfer Code of Conduct. Business wants to significantly reduce consumer protections in the Code. A submission co-authored by CLA member Professor Roger Clarke and Al…

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ID card: bureaucrats must correct wrong impressions

10 March 2007 10 March 2007

Government bureaucrats are boosting ‘smart’ card technology while being economical with the truth, CLA says in wide-ranging ID card media release. The national ID card debate is too important: they must correct wrong impressions left with the Parliamenta…

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Governments condemned over FOI restrictions

7 March 2007 7 March 2007

CLA President Dr Kristine Klugman has slammed proposed changes to Freedom of Information laws in the ACT to further restrict the public’s right to know what its government is up to. Governments, Labor and Liberal, throughout Australia were abusing FOI, a…

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Ruddock censors euthanasia handbook

17 January 2007 17 January 2007

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has moved rapidly to demand that the Classification Review Board bans a book on euthanasia, the Peaceful Pill Handbook, even though the board OK’d the book just a month earlier, in December 2006. “This executive government…

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Safeguard Aussie data, CLA tells ALRC

15 January 2007 15 January 2007

Personal data and financial transaction details of Australians should be kept safe in Australia, and neither exported not subjected to laws of other countries, CLA has told the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Privacy inquiry. Using the online transact…

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