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CLArion Sept 2021: CLA success, new way to operate, SNF latest

CLA CLArion Monthly newsletterCLA saw one of its prime recommendations adopted by the parliamentary Homelessness inquiry: we don’t often get a committee agreeing completely with us, but here we did. Also, the CLA Board has decided how we can operate more efficiently and therefore effectively in future, with details and the dates of a special general meeting set out in this issue. CLA member Barbara Etter and barrister Hugh Selby have exposed gross incompetence, and possibly worse, by the Tasmanian Office of the DPP and TasPolice in ‘evidence’ collected and filtered before tendering to the judge and  jury in the original trial of  Sue Neill-Fraser, now in her 13th year wrongly jailed. Her defence counsel was kept in the dark about some witness statements that could have helped her.

  • What are ravenous data fiends really doing?
  • Laws your MP had no chance to vote for…or against
  • Should Australia have CCRCs?
  • Barrister calls for judge to be removed from bench
  • State admits to massive parole problems
  • China plans new laws around public health, privacy
  • 0.8% conviction rate for sexual assaults
  • Canada introduces vaccine passport

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  • CLArion August 2021: Pandemic causes ill health to democracy, liberties

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  • CLArion July 2021: Power battle over rights and Parliament’s role

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  • CLArion May 2021: Interstate squabbling means children suffer

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  • CLArion April 2021: Bipartisan bid to restore power to Parliament

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  • CLArion Mar 2021: Sue Neill-Fraser appeal to start, at last!

    Today’s the day! Risdon prisoner Sue Neill-Fraser’s long-awaited, long-thwarted, and long-delayed appeal is due to start on 1 March 2021, this CLArion issue’s cover date. The tortuous, uphill climb to today began on 2 August 2013 when CLA President Dr ...

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