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Max Atkinson

Max Atkinson is a former senior lecturer of the Law School, University of Tasmania, with Interests in legal and moral philosophy, especially issues to do with rights, values, justice and punishment. He is an occasional contributor to the Tasmanian Times.


A troubled future for the University of Tasmania
Education - 17/10/2022 - 3 comments
No democratic oversight of the power to wage war
Law & Liberties - 27/01/2022 - 7 comments
How did it go so wrong?
Political Philosophy - 5/09/2019 - 8 comments
Ascertaining motives in the Persian Gulf
International - 3/07/2019 - 10 comments
Why is North Korea so difficult?
International - 19/01/2018 - 16 comments
Storm clouds over Korea
International - 5/06/2017 - 21 comments
Is populism any better than elitism?
Political Philosophy - 1/05/2017 - 14 comments
On regulating banking and financial services
Economics - 29/12/2016 - 5 comments
Should public opinion determine policy?
Political Philosophy - 25/11/2016 - 5 comments
A concerned politician's guide to donations reform
Law & Liberties - 26/10/2016 - 4 comments
Political duty versus party unity
Political Philosophy - 5/10/2016 - 4 comments
How political donations distort democracy
Domestic Politics - 13/09/2016 - 3 comments
Can secret political donations be justified?
Political Philosophy - 26/08/2016 - 10 comments
Why ASIC cannot do the job
Law & Liberties - 19/07/2016 - 2 comments
Why we need a Royal Commission into banking and financial services
Domestic Politics - 10/05/2016 - 4 comments
The case for integrity
Political Philosophy - 7/04/2016 - 3 comments
Turnbull's critics
Domestic Politics - 18/03/2016 - 11 comments
Gaming the system
Law & Liberties - 9/03/2016 - 7 comments
Why Australia should not become a republic
Political Philosophy - 1/03/2016 - 5 comments
High Court excels in McCloy's case
Law & Liberties - 12/02/2016 - 4 comments
Against marriage reform
Law & Liberties - 21/01/2016 - 77 comments
Is a plebiscite more democratic?
Political Philosophy - 8/01/2016 - 31 comments
Turnbull's political philosophy
Political Philosophy - 11/12/2015 - 8 comments
Freedom of conscience and the Liberal Party
Domestic Politics - 17/03/2015 - 2 comments
Fairness as a political principle
Political Philosophy - 9/02/2015 - 11 comments
Does fairness matter?
Economics - 6/10/2014 - 14 comments
Governor Underwood was always undeterred
Law & Liberties - 20/08/2014 - 9 comments
Elizabeth Warren is special
International - 29/07/2014 - 6 comments
Public opinion and democracy
Law & Liberties - 3/07/2014 - 9 comments
Sacred promises
Political Philosophy - 13/05/2014 - 10 comments
Whither the Liberal conscience?
Law & Liberties - 17/04/2014 - 27 comments
Moral values and religious doctrines
Religion & Spirituality - 28/03/2014 - 193 comments
Where the rot begins
Political Philosophy - 21/02/2014 - 13 comments
Justification and excuse
Law & Liberties - 31/12/2013 - 36 comments
Should freedom ignore fairness?
Political Philosophy - 19/11/2013 - 4 comments
Essendon besieged
Sport - 26/08/2013
Tony Windsor on being independent
Political Philosophy - 19/06/2013 - 4 comments
Julie Bishop on loyalty
Political Philosophy - 8/02/2013 - 14 comments
Reason and passion on Israel
International - 17/12/2012 - 4 comments
Edmund Burke on politicians
Political Philosophy - 2/11/2012 - 4 comments
The duty of politicians
Law & Liberties - 17/10/2012
Greg Sheridan on torture
Law & Liberties - 16/07/2012 - 22 comments
Is Labor the least worst?
Political Philosophy - 6/06/2012 - 36 comments
Beware of conservatives
Political Philosophy - 25/05/2012 - 52 comments
Jurisprudence and Julian Assange
Law & Liberties - 15/05/2012 - 2 comments
The case of Julian Assange: do constitutional principles matter?
Law & Liberties - 24/04/2012 - 9 comments
Janet Albrechtsen's jurisprudence
Law & Liberties - 19/10/2011 - 2 comments
Attacking the High Court judges
Law & Liberties - 21/09/2011 - 5 comments
Why David Hicks must win
Law & Liberties - 6/09/2011 - 34 comments
Lies, promises and mandates
Domestic Politics - 30/08/2011 - 13 comments
Morality and democracy: public sovereignty is a simplistic approach to policy
Domestic Politics - 12/08/2011 - 21 comments
Assange: what it means to be a suspect
Media - 30/12/2010 - 4 comments
Same sex marriage: is public opinion a moral value?
Law & Liberties - 6/12/2010 - 77 comments
Why the alliance argument is a fraud
International - 1/12/2010
Military decisions such as committing to the Afghan War should be matters for parliament
Law & Liberties - 1/11/2010 - 5 comments
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