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Freedom of Information

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

Last updated 27 November 2012

 

 

 

Freedom of Information

Sean Parnell and Rory Callinan, “Grim Reality of VD Ben Robert-Smith’s Guts and Glory Obscured by Military Censors”, The Australian, 16 June 2011.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/grim-reality-of-vcs-guts-and-glory-obscured-by-military-censors/story-fn8r0e18-1226075945494.

AP, “Wikileaks: “We Won’t Be Threatened by Pentagon”, 16 August 2010.  The Sydney Morning Herald, Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/wikileaks-we-wont-be-threatened-by-pentagon-20100816-125na.html?autostart=1.

Ben Saul, “Condemned by Faceless Accusers and Secret Evidence”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/condemned-by-faceless-accusers-and-secret-evidence-20100606-xn26.html.

Matthew Moore, “Premier Tells Ministers to Obey New FOI Act”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/premier-tells-ministers-to-obey-new-foi-act-20100523-w42z.html.

Michael Sainsbury, “China’s Propaganda Machine Busy as Media Indulge in Google-Bashing”, The Australian, 29 March 2010.  Available at: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/chinas-propaganda-machine-busy-as-media-indulge-in-google-bashing/story-e6frg996-1225846613083.

Reuters, “Web Censorship: Clash of the Behemoths”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 January 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/web-censorship-clash-of-the-behemoths-20100113-m6d6.html.

 


Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

Joel Ng, “Asean Human Rights Declaration: A Pragmatic Compromise – Analysis”, Eurasia Review, 26 November 2012.  Available at: http://www.eurasiareview.com/26112012-asean-human-rights-declaration-a-pragmatic-compromise-analysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29.  The full text of the declaration is available at: http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ODYwNjEzMDgzNTIzODcwMGIyNTNiZGRkZWM4ODM0. 

Additional commentaries:

Sam Campbell, “ASEAN Declaration Allows Cambodia to Flout Human Rights, Warn Campaigners”, The Guardian, 23 November 2012.  Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/nov/23/asean-declaration-cambodia-flout-human-rights

Associated Press, “ASEAN’s Human Rights Declaration Criticised by US and Others”, South China Morning Post, 19 November 2012.  Available at: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1085659/aseans-human-rights-declaration-criticised-us-and-others

Joshua Rozenberg, “Gary McKinnon: Theresa May Had No Choice but to Use Human Rights Grounds”, The Guardian, 16 October 2012.  Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/16/gary-mckinnon-theresa-may-human-rights.

Charlie Savage, “Election May Decide When Interrogation Amounts to Torture”, The New York Times, 27 September 2012.  Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/us/politics/election-will-decide-future-of-interrogation-methods-for-terrorism-suspects.html.

Paul Sheehan, “Rudd’s Electoral Cracks About to Open Further”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/rudds-electoral-cracks-about-to-open-further-20100609-xugc.html?autostart=1.

George Williams, “Human Rights: People with Power Don’t Want to Give It Up”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 2010.  Available at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/human-rights-people-with-power-dont-want-to-give-it-up-20100426-tn7b.html.

Brennan Report:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/brennan-report-is-a-trojan-horse/story-e6frg6zo-1225842545647.

“China-Australia Human Rights Technical Cooperation Program”, background information by Mr David Robinson, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, with introduction by Michael C.H. Jones, dated August 2002.  Click here for both documents.

David Robinson’s background information updated as at 5 July 2007:  Click here for this document in Microsoft Word.

“Human Rights Fundamentalisms”, by David Kinley.  This is the Inaugural Lecture for the Chair in Human Rights Law at Sydney University, delivered 6 December 2006 with the text made available by the author that included updates as at February 2007.   In portable document format.

Information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on matters relating to global and regional bodies that are advancing human rights priorities.  Link to the document is: http://www.dfat.gov.au/hr/.

Information on human rights and equal opportunity in Australia’s aid program is available at: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/china/hrtc_program.cfm.