Human Rights, Gay Rights
Michael Kirby
The first school that I ever attended was a local kindergarten conducted by Mrs Church. I have no idea of her first name. Back in 1943, schoolchildren never became familiar ...
Indigenous Education and the Ladder to Prosperity
Marcia Langton & Zane Ma Rhea
The small number of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at school — 147,181 — belies the complexity and magnitude of the failure of the national school system to ...
Indigenous Exceptionalism and the Constitutional ‘Race Power’
Marcia Langton
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians is a fraught topic, presenting legal as well as moral challenges, and involves a large set of issues beyond my scope here. I want to ...
Killing Me Softly: Ending State-Sanctioned Killing
John Riordan
Upon witnessing the last execution ever to take place in France, Judge Monique Mabelly was confronted with the horror of killing a lucid and healthy human being. At the end ...
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
Gareth Evans
There is no more fundamental human rights issue than a threat to life on this planet as we know it. There are only two such threats that international policy failure ...
People With Disability: Turning Paper Rights Into Realities
Kelley Johnson
In 2012, 4.2 million Australians (18.5% of the population) were estimated as having a disability. However, as Vik Finkelstein, an English self-advocate has commented, the rest of the population could ...
Kelley Johnson
People With Disability: Turning Paper Rights Into Realities
In 2012, 4.2 million Australians (18.5% of the population) were estimated as having a disability. However, as Vik Finkelstein, an English self-advocate has commented, the ...
Michael Kirby
Homosexuality and Love
I received my first inkling of my own sexuality at about age 9. I was always precocious. In those days, it was not a very ...
Michael Kirby
Human Rights, Gay Rights
The first school that I ever attended was a local kindergarten conducted by Mrs Church. I have no idea of her first name. Back in ...
Marcia Langton & Zane Ma Rhea
Indigenous Education and the Ladder to Prosperity
The small number of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at school — 147,181 — belies the complexity and magnitude of the failure of ...
Marcia Langton
Indigenous Exceptionalism and the Constitutional ‘Race Power’
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians is a fraught topic, presenting legal as well as moral challenges, and involves a large set of issues beyond my ...
Ian Lowe
Human rights and the environment
The Human Rights Commission notes that there are rights protected by international treaties for which it has local responsibility, as well as a broader range ...