CLA has asked Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in writing to lodge a protest against the sentencing to death of an Afghani studying journalism at uni. Australian troops weren’t fighting for a democracy that won’t allow students to explore information at un…
CLA questions whether Australia’s citizenship test should be continued at all. If kept, it certainly must be reworked to be fair and equitable to refugee and humanitarian migrants, CLA’s media release says. Immigration Minister Chris Evans should act imm…
In other nations, Presidents and Prime Ministers can declare war…but they must get full approval of their legislatures by various mechanisms. In Australia, the power to declare and wage war is shrouded in uncertainty, without the benefit of mandated e…
All Australians are not equal. The 500,000-plus citizens of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are discrimated against under the Australian Constitution and by laws of the Australian Parliament, contrary to international human ri…
A cascade of more than 50 Acts tackling ‘anti-terrorism’ – short-term reactions to then-perceived threats – have engulfed Australian society since 2001. Over the next decade or so, there’s a need to re-balance the legislation to better reflect the co…
What were the worst American civil liberties trangressions in 2007? Here’s what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says…and there’s a lot of resonance with civil liberties violatons in Australia – this article by Richard Ackland in the Sydney Mo…