Community Law Association

Our human, democratic and civil rights are under constant attack. Rights guaranteed to us in the Australian Constitution and by Common Law are every day ignored, curtailed, twisted out of recognition and even totally erased by Politicians, Public Servants, Corporations and most remarkably of all, by the Law Courts of Australia.*

Not all of these denials of our rights and breaking and bending of laws are intentional evil-doing. Politicians claim mitigation by reason of 'the greater good', although the beneficiary of this greater good is often questionable. For example, the case of three recent Premiers of NSW who between them on retirement suddenly found themselves $70 million better off thanks to 'consultancies' paid by corporations that had received huge State contracts during their terms in office, for projects of dubious public benefit.

Public servants claim the same 'greater good' as they introduce practices which may perhaps truly be public money savers, but may involve such corner-cutting as to infringe actual Law or diminish our benefits or rights. Corporations have little hesitation in engaging in outright chicanery and illegal practices, immunised from any accountability by a bought-and-paid-for legislature all too aware that corporate money can either bankroll their own next electoral campaign or that of their competitor.

Australian Law Courts and legal practitioners are remarkably active in destroying the protections of law and the constitutional rights of Australians. All of us - in the event of having to go to Law Court - are entitled to a fair hearing in the presence of a Judge as the Representative of the Sovereign, at present Queen Elizabeth II, and of twelve Australians who form a jury and who - not the Judge - are empowered to decide on the right or otherwise of the claim involved. Yet our Courts regularly deny this Constitutional right; Magistrates' Courts are a rank example. Another abuse is the use of the Office of Court Registrar to allow or deny a hearing to a claimant, without any responsibility to offer cause for rejection. The Association of Lawyers - being the original and most self-serving of so-called 'self-regulating bodies' that pervert Justice protected by their own self-declared sacrosanct priesthood -  form the closest-knit trade union of all.

For more detailed demonstrations of what these groups have taken from us all, and how, and what it is actually costing you, visit our Stop Thief! webpage.

These groups are powerful - they hold the reins of Government, of Public Administration, of Corporate wealth and of the means to at least nominally 'legitimise' any evil acts by abuse of their considerable powers. The Community Law Group needs all of the help and support it can get to battle against these powers of darkness.

We need volunteer law practitioners to assess and advise on the legality of suspected abuses, and to pursue legal remedy where appropriate; we need volunteers for case and legal research, volunteers to liaise with persons reporting abuses and to investigate possible abusers; we need communicators to tell the world what we are doing and to seek more support; and we need funding to support all of the processes involved in our work.

We encourage you read further about our projects and learn about the legal background; we urge legal practitioners - perhaps retired, perhaps still practising but disenchanted - to check the list of open projects and to volunteer to investigate one or more of them; and we ask every Australian - every member of this Commonwealth of Australia of ours, citizen or not - to join our Association and participate in our work.

 * Click on paragraph for elaboration