Australia’s foreign affairs chiefs fail in their responsibility to promote our human rights beliefs, values and interests properly, and so deliver a badly lop-sided public service. This is particularly so in the Pacific, and in Asia, CLA says in critiqu…
In a scathing report, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has lambasted the Australian Federal Police for its lack of commitment to a complaints system. He accuses the AFP of wasting information, exonerating its own officers, and taking forever to resolve ma…
Ideological but illogical, inefficient and expensive…words that sum up how the Australian Government buys in its legal expertise, Ernst Willheim says in analysing the recently-released Legal Services Procurement Report. The report has some excellent re…
ALRC tells governmentAustralia looks likely to get a new form of major investigation – the Official Inquiry – as a second tier to the existing Royal Commission system, after the Australian Law Reform Commission table its report No 111, ‘Making Inquiries’. The ALRC has ma…
Authorities should stop pursuing former Customs officer Allan Kessing, who blew the whistle on major securityy lapses at Sydney Airport. He deserves a reward rather than a conviction. The treatment of Kessing shows how governments treat the public’s righ…
The auditor hints at significant reservations about the appropriateness of the ACT Policing annual report, and on how expenditure of about $122m is accounted for. As well, the report contains some hard-to-reconcile figures. The ACT Legislative Assembly n…