Sexual language shapes world of war
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…
EFT code review – help rein in business
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…
ID card: bureaucrats must correct wrong impressions
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…
Governments condemned over FOI restrictions
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…
Ruddock censors euthanasia handbook
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…
Safeguard Aussie data, CLA tells ALRC
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…
CLA demands people own their personal data
Each individual must own their personal data on the national ‘Access Card’, CLA says in it January 2007 submissionto the Office of the Access Card, or the system is biased towards Government rather than the Australians. Read how CLA suggests fixing the d…
Don’t discriminate against young people
Muddle-headed thinking about cutting the rights of young drivers would be discriminatory, and also may lead to more deaths and injuries, CLA says. Australia needs a national approach, and the ACT is showing the way. Read main media release and media rele…
What are civil libertarians concerned about?
Read this rundown by Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Ackland on what concerns civil libertarians.
If you can’t get through to the SMH site, you can read it here.