A letter to the Hon Elise Archer MP, Attorney General TAS, published in the Tasmanian Times yesterday, begins:

"On behalf of Civil Liberties Australia, on this Australia Day I ask you to announce a Royal Commission into the system of justice in Tasmania. In our view, the need for this is clearly indicated by the saga of the Sue Neill-Fraser case, now 10 years old and still occupying the earnest attention of the state."

It goes on to say "The Sue Neill-Fraser case is taking on the dimension of the Lindy Chamberlain case nationally. But Chamberlain was in jail three years only: Neill-Fraser is in her 10th year already. Like Chamberlain, only a public inquiry will finally resolve all issues."