Re-Framing Australia
Barry Jones
The Australian colonies began very unpromisingly as a convict society built on Aboriginal dispossession. Nevertheless, robust elected institutions soon developed. There was responsible government by the 1850s, full manhood suffrage ...
Sexuality
Michael Kirby
Recently, I visited Kenya. A huge legal conference held in the Jomo Kenyatta Conference Centre in the middle of Nairobi. The meeting gathered lawyers from all parts of the Commonwealth ...
The Bolt Case: Silencing Speech or Promoting Tolerance?
Bibhu Aggarwal
Words are powerful. They can forge bonds of mutual respect and understanding, as they did when a nation apologised to all Indigenous Australians for the profound grief, suffering and loss ...
The Economic Dimension of Future Justice
Ian McDonald
Future justice has an economic dimension because economic decisions made today will have an impact on the level of wellbeing achievable by people in the future. For example, decisions today ...
The Emergence of WikiLeaks: Openness, Secrecy and Democracy
Spencer Zifcak
Just three years ago WikiLeaks was virtually unknown and its founder, Julian Assange, was next to unrecognisable as a national, let alone global identity.A short time later almost no one ...
The First Aboriginal Land Rights Case
John Fogarty & Jacinta Dwyer
It is 40 years since the first land rights claim by Aboriginal people was instituted in Australia. It was dismissed: Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17FLR 141 (the Nabalco ...
Ian McDonald
The Economic Dimension of Future Justice
Future justice has an economic dimension because economic decisions made today will have an impact on the level of wellbeing achievable by people in the future. For example, decisions today ...
Rob Moodie
NCDs and the Culture Wars: Creating Healthy Policies to Prevent NCDs
...NCDs are closely related to human behaviour. We are what we eat. We are also what we drink, smoke and exercise. And these behaviours are very much part of the ...
Timothy Morrell
Victoria’s Youth Diversion Scheme and the over-representation of Indigenous Youth in detention
The vast majority of Indigenous people will never come into contact with the criminal justice system in Australia. However, Indigenous people remain over-represented in detention across all Australian jurisdictions ...
Barbara Norman
Our Place, Our Environment, Our Future
For Australians, our sense of space and place are central to our identity and culture. From the first inhabitants of Australia to the diverse range of migrants who have made ...
Nikos Papastergiadis
Why Multiculturalism Makes People So Angry and Sad
Since the 1970s multiculturalism has served as a category that has widened the conceptual framework of public policy, cultural philosophy and aesthetic practice. After 2001 it has slid into the ...
Benjamin Parr
Hope for a competitive and climate-friendly Australia
Australia, along with much of the rest of the world, faces the challenging task of balancing the need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while at the same time nurturing ...