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?’..
Judges’ proper role under a human rights law
There are many arguable reasons for maintaining Australia’s unique position in not having a national guarantee of human rights. You might question the concept of universal human rights. You.
The ‘feral judge’ furphy in the human rights debate
There are many arguable reasons for maintaining Australia’s unique position in not having a national guarantee of human rights. You might question the concept of universal human rights. You.
Choosing a judge for their philosophy and values
The debate about High Court appointments has resurfaced. It comes around as often as one of the seven judges is approaching 70, when, to quote Shakespeare, they are still.
A Human Rights agenda for a new Attorney-General
For more than a decade I disagreed with a great deal of what the Howard Government’s Attorney-General was doing and, not surprisingly, I indulged from time to time in.
Voluntary unionism and the freedom to associate
It is hard to argue with anything done in the name of a fundamental human freedom. The federal Government adopts this high ground when it repeatedly invokes freedom of.
Gene Brucker, ‘Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence’
Gene Brucker, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986, 121 pp. I’ll start with the New York Times review I read.
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.
Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, John Birmingham, Vintage Books, 2000
‘Sydney as psychopath’ said McKenzie Wark. A mad, bad and dangerous place? It depends on your perspective on life; whether you love it (you live there) or hate it.
The right to vote does not depend on speaking proper(ly)
On 5 November 1999 (the day before the November Referendum on a Republic), the Australian Monarchist League attempted to disenfranchise Australian voters on the basis of their ability to.