January 2020 CLArion newsletter: CLA helps chalk up rare win as initiatives...
A former Chief Justice dropped a ‘bombshell’ when his year-long inquiry in WA found criminal assets-seizing laws were “largely unconcerned whether confiscation is fair or just’. CLA has campaigned...
View ArticleFebruary 2020 CLArion newsletter: Integrity Commission must have teeth;...
Bushfire hesitancy, climate change uncertainty and sports rorts chicanery are indicators that national leadership and management is sub-optimal as Australia faces major issues from the start of the...
View ArticleMarch 2020 CLArion newsletter: Year of change is likely as politicians battle...
The prognosis for positive progress in 2020 is not good. The government has lined up its divisive Religious Freedoms to wedge society, even as one ambitious Minister has a plan ready to unleash...
View ArticleApril 2020 CLArion newsletter: Governments impinge on liberties, freedoms as...
As the health crisis stretches into months, governments are becoming more authoritarian by the week. Police and military enforcement squads are on the streets. The open air freedom of beaches is denied...
View ArticleMay 2020 CLArion newsletter: Trust emerges as even stronger factor in which...
With the immediate emergency fading, thoughts turn to what we need restoring first: personal freedoms (our civil liberties) back is No 1, just to walk on a beach, take a drive, go interstate. Then...
View ArticleJune 2020 CLArion newsletter: Can liberties and rights survive onslaughts...
Can liberties and rights we previously enjoyed survive the Covid-19 pandemic? Already the right to privacy has been formally legislated away in one Australian jurisdiction, while the Federal Court is...
View ArticleJuly 2020 CLArion newsletter: Worst of times provide opportunity to change...
As the Covid-19 pandemic restricts traditional freedoms wholesale, and the police and security community seeks even greater powers of surveillance and data control over our photos and faces, these...
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