Prisoners, parent of prisoners, prisoner aid and help groups, prison reform groups, warders, jail superintendents, police, lawyers…all should be aware of a new opportunity to have your voices heard in this major inquiry by a Federal Parliament Senate…
The NSW Ombudsman, Bruce Barbour, has made 46 recommendations to improve police use of stun guns after undertaking a six-month study of incidents in NSW. The Ombudsman’s media release has an overview of his findings, and there’s a link to stun gun video…
CLA supports a NSW plan to clean up Kings Cross, but giving police the power to deploy dogs sniffing crotches on trains right across the entire metropolitan area of Sydney – without having to seek a warrant from a judge – doesn’t seem to make sense. It’…
A Sydney demo by a couple of hundred Muslims has exposed the lies behind a decade of expanded police and security powers. A-G Nicola Roxon has revealed the ultimate aim is total monitoring of citizens’ private lives and social activities, with police an…
Wrongful conviction strikes at the heart of society, and Australia needs a formal process and entity to weigh and evaluate potentially erroneous cases, says CLA member Barbara Etter. Bringing her wealth of experience as lawyer, academic, long-time and s…
In the Theatre of Life, if you’re not afraid you have something to worry about…or so the fearocrats would have it, says columnist Kerry Cue. She dipped her underwire in secret ink to pen this expose of today’s unreasonableness of being.Read article &#…