Civil Liberties Australia invites you to read these factual reports which illustrate some of the Australian Crime Commission’s track record, and shine a light on how competent, or otherwise, the Australian Crime Commission is. You be the judge.
The re…
CLA has been censored by a Parliamentary Committee, which is refusing to publish online a submission by CLA. The reason, the committee says, is that the CLA submission reflects poorly on a public official. But the CLA submission is merely reporting what…
Rather than making their first recourse the banning or penalising of human activity, academics should seek constructive ways to help empower people to live fuller lives freer of restrictions, CLA’s Rex Widerstrom says. It’s time academia paid as much at…
In a major annual review of FOI in Australia, Dr Johan Lidberg says we’re suffering from a two-speed approach with more than half the jurisdictions lagging. He points out the nation ranks as a middling muddler in how information publicly gathered and p…
It’s not often you get a chance to profoundly make the nation a better place, but new Homes and Homelessness Minister Robert McClelland has just such an opportunity. He needs to gather disparate policies across portfolios and stop them pulling in differ…
The resignation of Ombudsman Allan Asher, pressured by the Executive Government, highlights the need for greater independence of the office, and a return to proper funding. John Wood – himself a former Deputy Ombudsman, and now consultant to Pacific sta…