When someone is wrongfully imprisoned, there are many hidden victims. It’s not only the convicted person who does the time, whose life gets put on hold and turned upside down, it’s every member of their family too.
So even if some people don’t care…
When a nation doesn’t have a Bill of Rights, it seems the best it can aspire to is a ‘National Human Rights Action Plan’. That’s what the Australian Government thinks, anyway. Here’s Australia’s plan on how to create a plan in 2011…you too can play, i…
SCAG – the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General – issued a typical economically worded ‘communique’ after its December 2010 meeting. CLA believes SCAG should publish a full agenda, and formal minutes, for each meeting.
Communique – Standing Commi…
As a new Victorian Government takes office, there are worrying signs that it will try to wind back the Charter of Rights and Responsibilities legislated in 2006. CLA has joined 73 national and state organisations to lobby new Attorney-General Robert Cla…
The Attorney-General’s proposal to change the bail and magistrate court rules in the ACT would further erode fundamental human rights in the Territory, CLA has told him. What is needed is correcting a shortage of judges and fixing an inefficient courts…
Australian celebrate Eureka Day on 3 December each year, the anniversary of the Eureka Stockade ‘rebellion’ on the Ballarat goldfields. The miners rallied under the first ‘Australian’ flag against police methods, and for the vote and representative gove…