Aboriginal Economic and Human Development in the Northern Territory of...
by Don Fuller, Susan Bandias and Scott Holmes Abstract: Although Indigenous people in the poorest developing countries of the world confront the most severe hardships, nevertheless even in the most...
View ArticleJudicial misbehaviour or just blunt speaking?
Magistrate Pat O’Shane by Ken Parish With Introduction to Public Law students due to study the topic judicial independence next week, it is an opportune time to examine a current situation involving...
View ArticleSinking the Slipper
[Cross-posted from Club Troppo] Recovering journalist Mr Denmore succinctly summarises the response of the media (at least the Murdoch portion of it) to the Peter Slipper controversy: [T]he Tory...
View ArticleThe night before the morning after
And another crowd shot A great time was had by a bumper crowd of 46 law students and alumni at the Melbourne CDU law students’ dinner last Friday 4 May at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. I didn’t have quite...
View ArticleAdelaide students’ shindig
by Ken Parish Adelaide CDU law students also had a dinner function recently to coincide with my visit for the annual high school careers and tertiary education expo at the Adelaide Convention Centre....
View ArticleAshamed to be a lawyer?
[by Ken Parish] Pseudonymous blogging lawyer Private Law Tutor confesses her occasional feelings of “shame” at being a lawyer: I’ve thought and talked and written about the deep discomfort that ebbs...
View ArticleA profession or an industry? – towards a national Access to Justice Accord
[by Ken Parish] This week is Law Week, and this is the second of two articles on topics of general importance to the legal profession. Access to justice is a big issue in Australia, as my Introduction...
View ArticleLock up refugees and throw away the key? There must be a better way!
[by Ken Parish] CDU Introduction to Public Law students should be taking careful note of the current public controversy over refugees indefinitely held in immigration detention as a result of adverse...
View ArticleFrank and candid or same old secrecy obsession?
The Labor government’s 2010 reforms to the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) , originally sponsored by former Special Minister of State John Faulkner have received a mixed reception from media and...
View ArticleParole for murderers and rapists?*
[*First published mid-2013] Last week a prostitute was murdered on the streets of St Kilda in Melbourne, where I am currently living part of the time. Journalist Wendy Squires yesterday drew parallels...
View ArticleViolence ‘R’ Us
A letter to the editor of the local Northern Territory News yesterday caused me to make one of my fairly infrequent checks of crime statistics. Correspondent Chris Rogers, fairly clearly a Labor...
View ArticleUkraine, Russia and the elusive grundnorm
I don’t pretend to understand the detail of the current situation between Russia and Ukraine, but it seems entirely reasonable to fear that this may well be the most significant threat to world peace...
View ArticleCulture is no excuse for abuse
The 8th of March 2014 was International Women’s Day and I was proud to present the opening remarks at the Darwin screening of the Honour Diaries movie. Approximately 100 men and women came together in...
View ArticleContemporary Challenges in International Environmental Law
*Posted on behalf of Ros Vickers The UN-REDD Programme is the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. It...
View ArticlePistorius Trial: What’s the charge and is there a defence?
International news is filled with the trial of Oscar Pistorius who is accused of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in South Africa on Valentine’s Day in 2013. The prosecution case is that Ms...
View ArticleFalconio case – DPP “coaching” appeal withdrawn
News from Australia this week that Bradley Murdoch has withdrawn his appeal against conviction for the murder of Peter Falconio. The case received international attention in 2001 when British tourist...
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