People frequently ask Civil Liberties Australia about the rights/wrongs of vaccination. This statement/article sets out our formal stance, and explains why and how far we support proven immunisation campaigns, as well as withdrawal of children from pre-…
Pro athletes are at the bottom of the pecking order in sport, and get picked on by everyone above them, and by the media, even though they alone carry the responsibility of being drug-free. It’s time we developed a way of giving athletes more say and co…
Forty days and 40 nights after a drama-filled, alarmist media conference staged by the Australian Crime Commission and two federal government ministers, the saga of threats and bullying – by the government, abetted by the sports media – continues. Here’…
While the Greens and Labor are fighting federally, in Tasmania the leaders of both parties are cooperatively putting forward a proposal for euthanasia law. The proposals, and the safeguards, are spelt out in consultation papers, writes Prof George Willi…
We used to have a reputation for ‘world’s best practice model’ in high performance athlete development, and for ‘cutting-edge sports science sports medicine’…but one crime commissioner and two ministers trashed Australia’s reputation and our ‘national…
Was the Drugs in Sport presser involving the ‘Three Spinners’ – Ministers Clare and Lundy plus ACC CEO Lawler – the first of a new form of media conference, where performance matters more than substance, and ‘stars’ act out roles to media and viewer bar…