The Editor, The Age: The article, ‘No room for complacency on terrorism’ (The Age, 8 Sept 2011) is timely as it reveals that, of the $10 billion Australia has spent on national security reforms since 2001, less than 1% has been allocated to countering…
The open access that the UK’s Independent Reviewer of terrorism laws, David Anderson, has to secret agencies “reflects the importance which our democracy attaches to rigorous independent scrutiny of the many exceptional powers given to authorities to de…
A new law gives ASIO greatly expanded powers to spy domestically, and for the first time allows Australia’s spooks to spy internationally for economic reasons only. This is dangerous law, unjustified by the government, which has slipped through an acqui…
Documents released by WikiLeaks reveal the extent of official perfidy by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay. They locked people up, not for alleged or even possible crimes, but merely to extract information. No US law permits that.
Guantanameros an…
EXCLUSIVE: Parliament should be more involved in any decision to go to war…and even more involved in a decision to stay at war, says retired General Peter Leahy, the man responsible for our soldiers for most of the Afghanistan war so far. He calls for…
Barrister Bret Walker is the new Independent Monitor of Terrorism Legislation in Australia, but what needs monitoring and changing? Here CLA’s security and terrorism expert, Dr Chris Michaelsen, explains the background. Listen to 6.5min interview »…