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Kellie Tranter

Kellie Tranter is a lawyer and human rights activist. You can follow her on Twitter @KellieTranter

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El Modelo
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Challenging the orthodoxy
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Spinning us into harm's way
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Data retention: lawyers on the wire
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OSB media strategy: motherhood statements, minimal content & tautology
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Winning the debate on asylum seekers
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The birth of a lost generation
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Australia's food security
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The greatest men's party on earth
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Memo to students: you should be angry
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Education: an ideology free-zone
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Asylum seekers: turning back the ocean tides
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Climate effects will knock on
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Without fear or favour
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Lurking beneath Australia's AAA economy...
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Getting away with torture
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Multinational miners: magnanimous or malevolent?
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Australia's diplomatic pragmatism
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Taser! Taser! Taser!
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National iSpy
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A cautionary tale: counter-terrorism legislation
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The tentacles of extradition
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Blood on their hands
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Suspect state: the right to silence
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The politics of point scoring
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Assange as journalist: An inconvenient truth?
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Late degenerate capitalism and the eurozone crisis
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We were not born yesterday
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The politics of youth
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War in Afghanistan: Sacrifices in vain?
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Happy Xmas (war is not over)
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We cannot win the Afghanistan war
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The rights you thought you had
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Afghanistan's fingernail factories
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A new generation of hope
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A classified war: Afghanistan and the Canberra malaise
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Malalai Joya: An inconvenient truth
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The Devil’s Arsenal: the weapons of war
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No direction home
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Australia v Hicks
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The elusive war for minds and morality
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The awakening within Afghanistan
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Scattered observations from an independent candidate
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Lights off: Part I
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Assange: has Gillard got the guts?
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And so this is Christmas?
Society - 8/12/2010 - 6 comments
War on error: that's what friends are for
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Hicks v Howard
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Drugs for guns
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An opaque war
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Water shambles
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Selective conscientious objection
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Abbott: Australia’s Sarah Palin
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Holding babies won't cut it for Gillard
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Julian Assange - a modern day hero
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Before you go, Senator Faulkner …
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Gillard's war
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Dead in the water
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Sink or swim
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Why do we fight?
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Wilderness lessons from Dr Seuss and the Lorax
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Scientific certainty in an uncertain world
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War without thought
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The thirst keeps growing in NSW
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Reparation day
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Show them (and us) the money!
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Government, water and an arranged marriage
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Corruption and climate change
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Big Australia
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There’s a hole in the bucket!
Domestic Politics - 16/10/2009 - 11 comments
Earth jurisprudence: standing up for the planet
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Balancing gender
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In case of water emergency ... dial?
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Cultural blindness
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Falling short of 'world’s best practice'
Environment - 22/07/2009 - 10 comments
Let's throw caution to the wind ... but at what cost?
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What are our human obligations?
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Getting serious about human rights
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Our China-based recovery is a naïve delusion
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Political stupidity and hydrocommerce madness
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Paid parental leave punt
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Will water corruption trump water security?
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Youth, brains and body image
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Is it the fault of women?
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Australia's illusory participation
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War: not in my name
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Fair go for women
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