The year privacy flew out the window
Our personal privacy took a battering in the past year from our own government and the America’s NSA. What have Australians lost, and how do we get it back?
Our personal privacy took a battering in the past year from our own government and the America’s NSA. What have Australians lost, and how do we get it back?
The Independent Monitor of security law, Bret Walker QC, has done his job well…but successive governments are ignoring what he says, at our peril, Jessie Blackbourn writes.
PM Abbott appeared to half-endorse torture when in Sri Lanka: CLA is calling on the PM to clearly and totally rule out torture…and Crikey agrees.
The Queensland bikie laws are turning innocent pub drinkers with tattoos into ‘criminals’, and making life impossible for pub owners. Muddle-headed, badly-drafted laws always have unforeseen consequences
It was Saturday midday when I, along with my daughter Dawn and son-in-law Peter, joined with hundreds of people in the large public square at Woden, in Canberra.
We were there to campaign for the humane treatment of asylum seekers who are coming to Australia in boats.
The UN Human Rights Council may recommend Australia abandons police investigating police. The UNHCR is expected to adjudicate within weeks on a dispute involving a boy being impaled on a fence in Sydney…and the outcome could end police ‘self-surgery’ investigations in Australia. TJ Hickey, a 17-year-old Aboriginal youth, was impaled on a fence post during a police operation – allegedly a close chase – in the ‘Aboriginal quarter’ of Redfern in 2004.