China’s first ever Gay Pride festival was a victory for Shanghai activists and, they hope, a step toward gay rights in China. But it is not, as one observer put it, the great leap forward.
Civil liberties
SA Labor government: “screws civil rights”
New legislation presently consuming our country under the guise of anti-biker laws is no more than a deliberate attempt to destroy our civil rights, writes Mark Aldridge.
WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission under fire
Over recent days there has been such concerted criticism of the CCC that it seems inevitable there will have to be a wide-ranging review of its operations, writes Lawrence Apps.
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