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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
