Censorship in Australia involves a defined government system, open and accountable. But suddenly we have booksellers withdrawing books from sale because of religious objection. Mary Walsh explains why this type of warped censorship is fundamentally wrong…
The Rudd government pans to set up a secret list of people suspected only of arson, and to possibly restrain, detain or put suspects under active surveillance for three months every year. The proposals , which represent a new low for civil liberties in A…
Police and the Police Minister in WA seem determined to introduce a system where people are penalised by loss of demerit driving points if they can’t prove themselves innocent. The proposal to reverse the burden of proof is a further example of how the…
Australians have been denied the opportunity to restrict the power of the political elite by the Rudd Government’s failure to enact a national Bill of Rights, CLA says. Federal MPs who believe in individual rights should coalesce across political boundar…
SA Premier Michael Rann, up for re-election in March 2010, is proposing that a defendant’s personal history should be revealed to juries – before they decide guilt or innocence – so as to send more people to prison. CLA and the SACCL, plus most other kno…
Tasmania still has anti-freedom-to-blog laws that South Australia this month canned before the 20 March 2010 elections expected in both states. In Tassie, you can be fined $12,000 AND sent to jail for three months for not putting your name and address a…