A Charter of Rights for Australia
Julian Burnside
There is one measure which, if adopted in Australia, would make an important difference to this flawed democracy of ours: it is a Charter of Rights. The response to the ...
Artificial intelligence and human rights in Australia
Brett Solomon & Lindsey Andersen
Although artificial intelligence is already mainstream, experts have only recently started looking into the short- and long-term impacts of AI on human rights. Recently in 2018, artificial intelligence was a ...
Bioethics
Max Charlesworth
Terri Schiavo, an American woman aged 41 years, was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (“brain dead”) and was kept alive by a feeding tube. Her husband, Michael ...
Climate Change: It’s a ‘People’ Thing and it Discriminates
Kate Auty
Much of our agricultural land is presently straining under the ‘worst drought in living memory’: 80% of Queensland is drought declared. This drought comes upon the heels of the Millennium ...
Creating justice for future generations
Janna Thompson
Most people care about the welfare of future generations. Parents want their children and grandchildren to live good lives. A British poll found that 64% of citizens think that the ...
Destination equality!
Mary Crooks
Gender equality’s great promise is that it benefits all people, children, life partners, workplaces, our economy and democratic culture. This is a story of Australia’s progress on gender equality from ...
Kate Auty
Climate Change: It’s a ‘People’ Thing and it Discriminates
Much of our agricultural land is presently straining under the ‘worst drought in living memory’: 80% of Queensland is drought declared. This drought comes upon ...
Larissa Behrendt
You Do Not Inherit; You Hold On Trust
The concept of sustainability has always been central to indigenous cultures. Native Americans believe that you have to consider the impact of your actions on ...
Julian Burnside
A Charter of Rights for Australia
There is one measure which, if adopted in Australia, would make an important difference to this flawed democracy of ours: it is a Charter of ...
Julian Burnside
Refugees and Human Rights
One of the few philosophical precepts which is practically universal is captured in the Christian teaching: Do unto others as you would have them do ...
Julian Burnside
The Human Rights of Refugees
It is not difficult to articulate the core elements of any human rights framework: we should acknowledge as inalienable rights those conditions that are generally ...
Max Charlesworth
Bioethics
Terri Schiavo, an American woman aged 41 years, was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (“brain dead”) and was kept alive by a ...