Exactly 25 years ago today, the death occurred of a man who gave his name to an Australian electorate, and who sipped champagne from the bottle with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. He was Vincent Lingiari, and some remarkable photos recall a memorable day…
Should the High Court place more emphasis on the rights that Australians ‘absorb’ because we have ratified international conventions. Chief Justice Robert French seems to be throwing out a strong hint in a speech he gave at the opening of the Brisbane l…
Bruno Marevich, a senior naturopath whose entire life is concern for health, was shocked at Gold Coast airport to be suddenly forced to undergo full body scanning and radiation exposure…under threat of instant detention, a fine, possibly jail and then a…
A Senate Committee should reject totally the deceitfully-named ‘Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012’, CLA says. It is not needed, has dumb and dangerous definitions, would create more problems than it solved, and would effectively censor the…
“The number and variety of threats to civil liberties of Australians during 2012 approached almost unprecedented levels,” says John Roskam, head of the Institute of Public Affairs. When commentators from all sides of politics start sounding warnings, it…
She’s at it again, the woman who heads Australia’s Thought Police. Now Tricky Nicky Roxon, our AG and the Commissar of Canberra’s ‘Can’t’ Cabal, wants to stop us being Aussies and using colourful language. She’s proposing new anti-discrimination laws th…