The WA Govt’s instant rejection of a sensible suggestion by Chief Justice Wayne Martin about justice reinvestment is just plain wrong. Taxpayers want politicians to save money, not ignore good ideas for doing so, CLA’s media release says.
The US Supreme Court decision that companies may not hold patents over the human genome is a boost to women at risk of breast cancer in Australia, CLA says. A local law to ‘mirror’ the decision here should be known as the Parke-Heffernan Act, to honour…
The CEO of Civil Liberties Australia, Bill Rowlings, was awarded an Order of Australia Medal, OAM, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The award was “For service to the community through the protection of human rights and civil liberties”.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is proposing all states adopt new laws against bikies that would potentially repress every Australian’s freedom of association. A future federal, state or territory government could selectively use a law, supposedly targetin…
Shoving more and more people behind bars is merely admitting to increasingly costly failure, says CLA’s Rex Widerstrom. It would cost half as much to pay selected people $1000 a week than to jail them. Innovative thinking could save the state a fortune,…
The Young Liberals, at their national convention in Hobart in early February, have called on Tony Abbott to allow a conscience vote of Liberal MPs if he is Prime Minister after the 2013 election, scheduled for September. Right on, says CLA, but all part…