Proposed reforms abandon racial vilification protection
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis is serious when he says that under his watch, ‘people do have a right to be bigots’. As drafted (and it is very poorly drafted),.
Leadership and a national human rights law
Imagine if we could get all of Australia to start a slow hand clap. And then, over the top of it, comes a plaintive chant ‘Why are we waiting?’..
The human rights furphy of ‘activist judges’
My grandmother was a wise woman, in a practical way. Do one thing at a time and do it well, she said. Janet Albrechtsen recently tried to do three.