CLArion May 2023: time to make Human Rights Act submision

More details are emerging on how public consultation over a Human Rights Act for Australia will get under way: you can express your support in a submission to the parliamentary committee by 1 July 2023, so please do, even if it is just a one-page letter. Meanwhile, secret trials, indefinite detenton, vague laws, forensics problems and more Indigenous people being jailed are among the concerns in this issue, not to mention a swathe of government departments and agencies failing to act, acting inappropriately of refusing to meet mandatory deadlines for providing public information to the people they supposedly serve.

- Audit and Accounts committee champions human rights in pandemics
- ‘Vague’ law to set new example for ’secret’ trials
- Securitisation drives the nation’s culture towards fear
- Bromley case decided soon…but High Court is wimping it
- Forensics problems/structures blight criminal cases
- Bad system produces miscarriages: Aussie CCRC needed
- Greek goddess confusion: does Dike ‘curse’ delay disclosure law?
- Human rights violated in Homeland Security prison surveillance
- VR and AI come to courts in Scotland and NZ
- Island journalists have to re-learn media freedom

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