Opening with sad memories and a legacy of shooting inquiries, CLA believes 2026 can achieve a better nation based on three pillars: • improved social justice and tolerance for other Australians; • greater civics understanding to boost our unique democracy: and • a Human Rights Act delivering a more equal society.
Key articles this month include:
- Time is right to improve Australia;
- Shootings require balanced, not panic, responses;
- Tasmania: stepping up human rights; regressing over wrongful conviction;
- High Court CJ wants revolution for better treatment of First Nations people;
- Security agencies and system review urgently needed;
- UK police get off scot free after 97 football fan deaths;
- USA: creating a worse nation based on cruelty, greed and revenge?