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Buckley's!

Buckley's! - Ken Buckley's autobiography. Read more...

End Mandatory Immigration Detention

CCL has made a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry on Immigration Detention. The submission will be made public soon. CCL is also partnering with GetUp! to help mobilise public support for ending mandatory detention. Join the campaign here....

United Nations Calls for Aussie Bill of Rights

The UN Committee against Torture has called for an Australian Bill of Rights, an end to mandatory immigration detention and a review of the Supermax prison at Goulburn. Read more...

Australia's Anti-Death Penalty Policy Undermined

New FOI documents show how the previous government ignored Australia's human rights obligations with respect to capital punishment. Read more...

recent CCL submissions...

»Exposure Draft of the Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal matters Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (September 2009)

»Citizenship Test Review 2009(August 2009)

»Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 (August 2009)

»National Security Legislation Monitor Bill 2009 (July 2009)

»Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill 2009 (July 2009)