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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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