A newly-elected government can this month take a principled, moral stand by denouncing PRISM and other surveillance without reasonable cause. It's time Australia showed a lead to the world.
A new 80-minute documentary, Shadow of Doubt, is focusing urgent attention on Australia’s latest miscarriage of justice, like Lindy and the dingo. If it wasn’t for CLA members, there would be no documentary, no such light shone on dark injustice.
The West’s surveillance of the world’s phones, computers and personal data has been much in the news: if there’s any supreme body in control, it is the shadowy ‘Quintet’ which meets annually for the US to hand out riding instructions to the UK, Canada, NZ and Australia. At home,a government in its final days has referred the question of access to justice to the Productivity Commission, just as a retiring former Attorney-General calls for a reduction in jailing of Indigenous Australians…if only he had done so when he was in charge of justice! Among 15 overseas news highlights, the ObamaContinue reading
With an Australian election just on 100 sleeps away, CLA’s attention turns to the five civil liberties issues we’ll be campaigning on. This issue also highlights sneaky government internet censorship, and how the AFP and the ACC are abusing media confer…
There’s a mood sweeping the nation for social change, from same-sex marriage to euthanasia. CLA believes it’s the start of citizens re-asserting themselves over politicians in a show of people power after years of feeling thwarted and marginalised. Now,…
A new act just passed in South Australia shows the way for other jurisdictions to restore the ‘Right to Appeal’ for potentially wrongly-convicted prisoners when ‘fresh and compelling’ new evidence emerges. But, just as CLA joins the campaign on this hop…