POLICE WA – ARRESTS – NUMBERPLATE ID – DRUGS WA Police using ‘I Spy’ numberplate trickery could be breaking the law by pulling over drivers with previous drug convictions who have served their time, Civil Liberties Australia’s National Media Director,…
Even with the annual Bass in the Grass music festival over for 2011, politicians in the NT continue to debate whether young people should be given messages on safe sex and free condoms at the event. Read what CLA says, what the NT News columnist Nick Ca…
Rent-car firms take liberties
Rental companies who place GPS devices in their vehicles are taking liberties and invading people’s privacy, CLA’s spokesman and director Tim Vines has told reporters. The information gathered could be dangerous to the ren…
Julian Assange has every right to operate in the long and proud tradition of American leakers and journalist/bloggers, who are honoured patriots of that country. And he has the right to expect his own Australian Government will support him, rather than…
It’s Hobson’s choice: be revealed near-naked on screen in front of strangers, or be subjected to a prying patdown that doesn’t miss an inch or a crevice. Here is some US background, and a CLA media statement on the issue.
Media inquiry: Airport scanner…
Protecting human rights has for centuries been the reason for government’s applying the rule of law, soon-to-retire NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, says. But government commitment to the fundamental principle is under threat from…