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Law & Liberties - 2011

Are Christians really the source of Oz values?

by Leslie Cannold - 21/04/2011 - 161 comments

Confronting Australian attitudes to refugees.

by Jo Coghlan - 22/06/2011 - 154 comments

Victims of neo-liberalism: Why so few women in Australian law firms reach the top and stay there

by Roy Williams - 23/06/2011 - 5 comments

Gay refugee rights: legislation and human rights law

by Jo Coghlan - 28/06/2011 - 1 comment

Solidarity with refugees in Australian prisons

by Claire Parfitt - 27/06/2011 - 33 comments

Crocodile tears on a cash register patriotism

by Walt Brasch - 11/09/2011 - 3 comments

Women are paid the same as men for equal work

by Judith Sloan and Mark Wooden - 23/05/2011 - 6 comments

Street cops fume as top cop lets crims take over Queensland streets

by Peter Pyke - 5/04/2011 - 8 comments

Post War Sri Lanka Under the Rajapaksa: Reconciliation's Two Lost Years

by Stephen Keim and Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne - 16/09/2011 - 11 comments

Sri Lanka needs to have a transparent investigation

by Stephen Keim - 3/05/2011

Judged by the assassination of bin Laden is American justice just?

by Jo Coghlan - 18/05/2011 - 34 comments

Women and the Law: Is there Real Equality?

by Angela Sdrinis - 24/06/2011 - 1 comment

No level playing field for Palestinian athletes

by Samah Sabawi - 19/08/2011 - 14 comments

NZ High Court says interest-free mortgage scheme to 'advance religion' is legal

by Max Wallace - 3/10/2011 - 8 comments

The problems with Eatock v Bolt

by Graham Young - 3/10/2011 - 72 comments

The rights you thought you had

by Kellie Tranter - 9/11/2011 - 26 comments

Pollies in a spin over chaplaincy challenge

by Chrys Stevenson - 2/03/2011 - 25 comments

Sex, rape and exploitation: who determines the difference?

by Jocelynne Scutt - 18/05/2011 - 16 comments

Sweden no model for sex laws

by Elena Jeffreys - 17/03/2011 - 26 comments

Wikileaks Manning demonstrates the current US administrations views on torture

by Marjorie Cohn - 29/03/2011 - 3 comments

Turkey, Egypt to drill for natural gas in the Mediterranean, threatening Israel's energy dreams

by John Daly - 27/09/2011 - 2 comments

Australian cultural cohesion – historical concern!

by Patricia Jenkings - 23/06/2011 - 4 comments

A dad does matter to a child, whether gay couples like it or not

by David van Gend - 31/08/2011 - 55 comments

Fathers Day present from hell

by Warwick Marsh - 2/09/2011 - 120 comments

The French High Court is not an activist High Court

by Patrick Keyzer - 2/09/2011

Happy anniversary: ten years of the US Security State

by Binoy Kampmark - 11/09/2011 - 5 comments

Bradley Manning: traitor or hero?

by Marjorie Cohn - 29/12/2011 - 9 comments

The conscience vote in gay marriage

by Yuri Koszarycz - 16/12/2011 - 46 comments

Assassins of Memory: The problem with targeting Bin Laden

by Binoy Kampmark - 16/11/2011 - 5 comments

Climate warriors vindicated in court

by Vivien Langford - 9/03/2011 - 10 comments

Who needs friends?

by Bruce Haigh - 16/06/2011 - 14 comments

What do we want? Equal Pay! When do we want it? Now!

by Liz Ross - 22/06/2011 - 19 comments

Mischief in the Family Law Act

by Patricia Merkin - 30/06/2011 - 176 comments

Evisceration of reserve powers causes chaos on PNG

by David Flint - 20/12/2011 - 7 comments

Racism increasing in modern Australia

by Lucas Walsh - 2/03/2011 - 30 comments

So, pro-spanking parents aren’t Nazis?

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 13/04/2011 - 94 comments

Laws not yet up to date with the online and digital age

by Mark Jones - 8/06/2011 - 5 comments

Justice delayed is justice denied

by Julie McKay - 8/07/2011 - 19 comments

South Sudan v Kosovo: secession, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity

by Sam Vaknin - 18/07/2011 - 2 comments

High Court challenge: Malaysia is not the solution for asylum seekers

by Jo Coghlan - 17/08/2011 - 5 comments

VAW affects us all

by Julie McKay - 5/09/2011 - 62 comments

Human trafficking victims: more than virgins and whores

by Misa Han - 7/11/2011 - 3 comments

The elusive war for minds and morality

by Kellie Tranter - 19/05/2011 - 4 comments

Charge the PM with treason?

by Tess Lawrence - 22/03/2011 - 14 comments

Marriage past, present and future?

by Ellen Goodman - 29/03/2011 - 8 comments

We need a real solution for asylum seekers: an Australian solution

by Andrew Hewett - 19/09/2011

The politics of hate and hate speech

by Walt Brasch - 19/01/2011 - 21 comments

The politics of a failed refugee policy: Labor's Malaysian solution

by Jo Coghlan - 11/05/2011 - 12 comments

Facial recognition technology: Big brother's ultimate weapon against civil liberties

by Jo Coghlan - 1/07/2011 - 16 comments

Banning the first amendment

by Walt Brasch - 30/09/2011 - 2 comments

Australian of the Year: Julian Assange

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 4/01/2011 - 27 comments

The Giffords shooting: a view from the Antipodes

by Sarah Joseph - 14/01/2011 - 15 comments

There are drugs at the bottom of your garden

by David Leyonhjelm and Roy Ellery - 10/03/2011 - 21 comments

Environmental crimes as crimes against humanity

by Jocelynne Scutt - 28/04/2011 - 4 comments

Torture is never legal and didn’t lead America to bin Laden

by Marjorie Cohn - 16/05/2011 - 35 comments

www.not-happy-orica.com

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 19/08/2011 - 7 comments

Mixed progress but also new hope in reducing rural poverty

by Kanayo Nwanze - 6/04/2011 - 4 comments

Roaming chickens

by David Leyonhjelm - 3/10/2011 - 6 comments

On the phone hacking scandal

by Brian McNair - 10/08/2011

The fall of the Malaysian solution: The High Court decision

by Binoy Kampmark - 1/09/2011 - 10 comments

Discretion or discrimination? Toddlers, toilets and temperamental travellers

by Jocelynne Scutt - 8/09/2011 - 11 comments

All I want for Christmas is the decriminalisation of sex work

by Ari Reid - 22/12/2011 - 19 comments

Apologising for negligence

by Prue Vines - 20/12/2011

Be a Real Man

by Mary Elias - 31/01/2011 - 41 comments

Dangerous developments for democracy?

by Andrew Norton - 10/02/2011 - 4 comments

Taking the Vatican to the cleaners: the ICC lawsuit

by Binoy Kampmark - 15/09/2011 - 8 comments

What does Peace Day mean to refugees arriving in Australia?

by Alistair Gee - 21/09/2011 - 3 comments

The formidable Fred Nile prevails: premier concedes

by David Flint - 11/01/2011

Muslims against homophobia at Sydney Mardi Gras

by Alice Aslan - 15/03/2011 - 20 comments

Global perspectives on gender equality – failing to prove success in measurement

by Ruth Phillips - 29/06/2011

Up in the air over airport security

by Lionel Hogg - 20/06/2011 - 6 comments

Corrective rape and violence against lesbians in South Africa

by Kate Walton - 20/09/2011 - 31 comments

Afghanistan's fingernail factories

by Kellie Tranter - 17/10/2011 - 5 comments

Human rights: a further blow

by Meg Wallace - 2/11/2011 - 47 comments

Happy Xmas (war is not over)

by Kellie Tranter - 28/12/2011 - 19 comments

The secular case against same-sex marriage

by Ian Robinson - 29/04/2011 - 98 comments

Censorship: No! Labelling: Yes!

by Bob Ryan - 11/01/2011 - 2 comments

Theochlocracy and narcissism: the case of the United States of America

by Sam Vaknin - 20/01/2011 - 12 comments

Death by terrorism: regional counterterrorism responses

by Jo Coghlan - 31/08/2011 - 9 comments

Defining a 'freedom to roam'

by George Seymour - 22/09/2011 - 6 comments

The 'right' to smack a child is foreign to Australian law

by Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham - 4/01/2011 - 36 comments

'Unproductive burdens' still have a right to live

by David van Gend - 1/04/2011 - 12 comments

Culture trouble - the ADFA, the Ministers, and the Commissioner

by Jocelynne Scutt - 18/04/2011 - 12 comments

Cluster munitions legislation must be strengthened

by Paul Barratt - 6/05/2011 - 2 comments

If freedom of religion is the question, secularism is the answer

by Chrys Stevenson - 1/04/2011 - 38 comments

Stop using the public service as political tools

by Eva Cox - 12/09/2011 - 11 comments

Malaysian solution and international law

by Glenn McGowan - 23/09/2011 - 15 comments

The passing of Dr Death: The Kevorkian legacy

by Binoy Kampmark - 13/06/2011

The virtues of being mad: Anders Breivik and Europe's exoneration

by Binoy Kampmark - 28/07/2011 - 7 comments

Property rights and market forces

by David Leyonhjelm - 4/08/2011 - 6 comments

Ukraine to cut Gazprom's umbilical cord?

by John Daly - 29/08/2011

Principles for an Australian policy on religion and state

by James Page - 17/11/2011 - 19 comments

Assange to be put on ice in Sweden

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 24/11/2011 - 3 comments

'They leave the devastation behind them' Newcastle 7

by Vivien Langford - 14/02/2011 - 13 comments

Humanitarian intervention in Libya

by Sarah Joseph - 23/03/2011 - 13 comments

Not for profit: why education needs the humanities

by Martha Nussbaum - 15/08/2011 - 20 comments

No legal solutions for Indonesia in battle at the live cattle corral

by Noam Shifrin - 22/06/2011 - 8 comments

Five minutes for Gilad Shalit

by Sam Tatarka - 24/06/2011 - 50 comments

Justice for Wikileaking Bradley Manning ?

by Stuart Rees - 27/07/2011 - 8 comments

Sex and injury compo claims may spell doom for out of town work trips

by Brett Wilson - 5/08/2011 - 9 comments

Locking the nanny state in

by Brant Rippon and Andrew Laming - 8/08/2011 - 12 comments

Hail to the true victors of Rupert’s revolution

by John Pilger - 12/09/2011 - 4 comments

Independent body needed to investigate miscarriages of justice

by Tom Mann - 9/12/2011 - 5 comments

Palestine - 'End the Occupation' and 'Right the Wrongs'

by David Singer - 13/12/2011 - 10 comments

Refugees: the nexus between power and responsibility

by Mirko Bagaric - 19/12/2011 - 12 comments

Redefine marriage, encourage polygamy

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 25/02/2011 - 77 comments

Australia's dysfunctional party system: remedies

by Klaas Woldring - 16/03/2011 - 19 comments

Gender equality - a delicate balancing act for Fair Work Australia

by Malcolm Colless - 20/06/2011 - 2 comments

Queensland policing: Queenslanders deserve better

by Peter Pyke - 7/07/2011 - 3 comments

Media advertising in public spaces: two different government responses

by Jo Coghlan - 2/08/2011

Tasmania’s forests: pushing a Greens’ vision onto unwilling locals

by Mark Poynter - 29/08/2011 - 22 comments

Resetting our relationship with Aboriginal people

by Michelle Fahy - 29/08/2011 - 28 comments

What can religious organisations shield from the Privacy Act?

by Meg Wallace - 8/12/2011 - 3 comments

Animals feel the pain of Halal slaughter

by Jake Farr-Wharton - 31/05/2011 - 35 comments

The sun rises on the US Patriot Act: four more years of American exceptionalism

by Jo Coghlan - 3/06/2011 - 7 comments

R18+ propaganda manipulating public opinion

by Barbara Biggins - 30/03/2011 - 7 comments

Mean spirited ideology or a presumption that every child wants the love of both parents in equal measure

by Yuri Joakimidis - 7/04/2011 - 66 comments

Our legacy: how we will be viewed in 2050

by David Swanton - 5/01/2011 - 27 comments

The right of the Coalition needs to be doused

by Fotis Kapetopoulos - 23/02/2011 - 10 comments

Is that a feminist under your burqa?

by Sascha Callaghan - 23/06/2011 - 29 comments

The duplicity of Australian diplomacy

by Gemima Harvey - 9/11/2011 - 7 comments

Human rights: where are we heading?

by Stephen Keim - 30/11/2011 - 39 comments

Public debates on sexual abuse

by Kevin Baker - 19/04/2011 - 8 comments

Marriage attacked and defended

by Bill Muehlenberg - 18/08/2011 - 104 comments

Never Let Me Go: the organ donation debate continues

by Evelyn Tsitas - 30/03/2011 - 4 comments

Compromise and policy balance are shaping Gillard’s minority government

by James English - 26/09/2011 - 20 comments

Comp ruling means inviting the boss home

by Mark O'Connor - 4/07/2011 - 12 comments

Financing terrorists and terrorism post 9/11

by Hugh McDermott - 5/09/2011 - 3 comments

Costing and commoditising virginity

by Matthew Holloway - 19/12/2011 - 44 comments

Morality, politics and asylum-seekers

by Scott MacInnes - 21/02/2011 - 18 comments

Aussie, Christian or universal values?

by Scott MacInnes - 27/04/2011 - 48 comments

Old advice for new times

by Damien Hickman - 17/08/2011 - 14 comments

Lest we forget: how do we justify Afghanistan?

by Scott MacInnes - 2/11/2011 - 21 comments

Gender equality between aspirations and realities

by Ioan Voicu - 29/06/2011

The great Australian survey

by Andrew Leigh - 10/08/2011 - 24 comments

How the so-called guardians of free speech are silencing the messenger

by John Pilger - 14/03/2011 - 11 comments

Department of Defence: less than honest, less than decent

by Bruce Haigh - 19/12/2011 - 3 comments

It's hard to build a road with clean hands

by Andrew Leigh - 16/03/2011 - 3 comments

Invisible innocence: it happens here too

by Lynne Weathered - 13/05/2011 - 13 comments

South Australia’s socially regressive sex trade laws need reform

by Chris Duluk - 8/06/2011 - 16 comments

Protected source

by Bruce Haigh - 29/03/2011 - 5 comments

Why my generation is wrong about gay marriage

by Blaise Joseph - 14/09/2011 - 129 comments

Palestine - telling the UN some home truths

by David Singer - 23/09/2011 - 27 comments

Now is the time for an Australian inquiry into the Iraq War

by Chris Doran - 28/01/2011 - 31 comments

Victoria, religious freedom and those that don't get it

by Danny Stevens - 18/02/2011 - 75 comments

Will Australia truly commit to the eradication of cluster munitions?

by Matthew Zagor - 1/03/2011 - 11 comments

Extrajudicial killings exclude justice, by definition.

by Alan Austin - 2/05/2011 - 15 comments

The nature of abusive systems may have changed but its chilling effects have not

by Cathy Kezelman - 16/06/2011 - 5 comments

Not another round of 'Republic Lite'?

by Graham Cooke - 10/01/2011 - 19 comments

Is domestic violence a gender hate crime, and why does it matter?

by Jennifer Wilson - 5/07/2011 - 132 comments

Peace-nicked

by Richard Hil - 8/07/2011 - 4 comments

Janet Albrechtsen's jurisprudence

by Max Atkinson - 19/10/2011 - 2 comments

'Constable iPlod' mistweets journalist in Facebook hacking debacle

by Bill Potts - 26/05/2011 - 2 comments

Dearest Nawal

by Zillah Eisenstein - 25/03/2011 - 2 comments

The woman and the octopus, or how anti porn activists sabotage their own message

by Jennifer Wilson - 14/09/2011 - 29 comments

How to sell and buy a flood-affected property

by Tim O'Dwyer - 20/01/2011 - 7 comments

Forget the insurers, let's blame the banks

by Tim O'Dwyer - 16/02/2011 - 4 comments

Libya and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine.

by Kevin Boreham - 26/08/2011 - 6 comments

Liberating the media from law's bondage

by Vishal Mangalwadi - 6/10/2011 - 25 comments

The human rights of saying ‘I do’

by John-Ernest Dinamarca - 28/10/2011 - 41 comments

Elder abuse – a reality that we cannot ignore

by Paul Russell - 3/11/2011 - 36 comments

Australia v Hicks

by Bruce Haigh and Kellie Tranter - 1/06/2011 - 63 comments

A Response to Paul Kelly on our Head of State

by David Smith - 18/08/2011 - 13 comments

Vile law should be abolished

by David Kemp - 10/10/2011 - 16 comments

Australians call for the removal of Sri Lankan High Commissioner

by Bruce Haigh - 25/10/2011 - 1 comment

The voices of the detained

by Kali Goldstone - 9/11/2011 - 8 comments

Prorogation:It won't stop the Rev Fred Nile

by David Flint - 6/01/2011 - 1 comment

Israel's assault on human rights

by Neve Gordon - 18/01/2011 - 2 comments

Finding a common definition of “flood” for insurance policies

by Ted Christie - 25/01/2011 - 9 comments

My tortured journey with former Guantanamo detainee David Hicks

by Jason Leopold - 4/03/2011 - 71 comments

Palestine: will acceptance ever replace rejection?

by David Singer - 15/09/2011 - 8 comments

The propaganda and collusion at the heart of “Stop the boats.”

by Jennifer Wilson - 12/01/2011 - 121 comments

Mandatory jail terms for young offenders undermine the pillars of our democracy

by Greg Barns - 9/06/2011 - 7 comments

Injunction against the government's Malaysian 'arrangement'

by Adam Fletcher - 11/08/2011

Mean-spirited and xenophobic

by Greg Barns - 1/09/2011 - 12 comments

Why David Hicks must win

by Max Atkinson - 6/09/2011 - 34 comments

Sandilands: offensive, and more

by Helen Pringle - 5/12/2011 - 22 comments

Runaway colonel puts Fiji in focus

by Kevin Childs - 25/05/2011 - 2 comments

Attacking the High Court judges

by Max Atkinson - 21/09/2011 - 5 comments

Not all leaks are created equal

by Antony Loewenstein - 11/02/2011 - 40 comments

What gay couples need to hear about 'donor' conceived children

by Maggie Millar - 11/07/2011 - 53 comments

Not quite as smart as we think we are or should lawyers govern?

by Michael Paton - 30/08/2011 - 10 comments

Judicial bullying

by Hugh Selby - 25/08/2011 - 11 comments

Avoiding strategic miscalculations

by Ioan Voicu - 16/12/2011 - 2 comments

Australia must stand up to US on cluster bomb legislation

by Malcolm Fraser - 18/03/2011 - 11 comments

'Malaysian solution' shows compassion to forgotten refugees

by Lyle Shelton - 11/05/2011 - 3 comments

Australia endorses compromised Sri Lankan regime

by Bruce Haigh - 20/05/2011 - 6 comments

R18+ computer game guidelines fly in the face of community concern

by Lyle Shelton - 27/05/2011 - 25 comments

Was it whistleblowing?

by Peter Bowden - 11/04/2011 - 25 comments

“Conscience vote” is no way to win equal marriage rights

by Catherine Rose - 30/09/2011 - 75 comments

The quality of mercy

by Bruce Haigh - 18/11/2011 - 16 comments

Australian responsibility: cluster bomb carnage in Iraq

by Chris Doran - 3/03/2011 - 6 comments

Palestine - ending the pretending, facing the facts

by David Singer - 4/08/2011 - 4 comments

A grim anniversary

by Jennifer Wilson - 24/02/2011 - 58 comments

Animal rights and wrongs

by John Humphreys - 11/06/2011 - 14 comments

Live animal export and knee-jerk reactions

by Brian Holden - 11/06/2011 - 45 comments

The jury and the social network

by Fergal Davis - 20/06/2011 - 7 comments

Veil request has already been covered

by Nazeem Hussain - 11/07/2011 - 11 comments

Helicopter parenting and social media

by Linda Atkins - 1/08/2011 - 6 comments

Naming and shaming - getting rid of age prejudice

by Malcolm King - 5/09/2011 - 10 comments

What price cluster bombs?

by Azhar Abidi - 4/05/2011 - 5 comments

Planning for our failing.

by Philip Nitschke - 19/05/2011 - 19 comments

Players need crucial off-field behaviour education

by Bill Potts - 24/03/2011 - 4 comments

In praise of preferential voting

by Helen Pringle - 28/03/2011 - 24 comments

Ending political correctness and reforming our justice system

by Michael Keane - 13/09/2011 - 10 comments

Woman up Ms Gillard and show us some tough

by Jennifer Wilson - 20/09/2011 - 52 comments

Pornography: The harm of discrimination

by Helen Pringle - 10/10/2011 - 92 comments

How two lies became accepted folklore

by Marilyn Shepherd - 21/10/2011 - 13 comments

Don't mention the floods

by Tim O'Dwyer - 17/01/2011 - 7 comments

Parliament should wield the war power

by Sukrit Sabhlok - 10/02/2011 - 10 comments

Feminism demands and enables a personal response to modern challenges

by Tony Smith - 28/06/2011 - 20 comments

Rats in a cage

by Bruce Haigh - 23/03/2011 - 34 comments

No law and order Renaissance for New South Wales

by Alan Austin - 25/03/2011 - 4 comments

Dignity of Risk should be a disability right

by Peter Gibilisco - 29/03/2011 - 5 comments

Is it February in Tunisia?

by John Passant - 21/01/2011 - 22 comments

An Australian republic for national unity and stability

by David Donovan - 18/02/2011 - 15 comments

State sponsored persecution

by Bruce Haigh - 12/05/2011 - 15 comments

Are women's rights, human rights?

by Kali Goldstone - 17/06/2011 - 30 comments

From a life in law

by David Flint - 13/10/2011 - 7 comments

No faith in 'anti-terrorism' laws

by Crispin Hull - 31/10/2011 - 4 comments

Without gene patents people will die

by Anna Lavelle - 2/03/2011 - 35 comments

Why minister?

by Marianne Dickie - 15/03/2011 - 3 comments

This man is our problem, not Britain's

by Richard Laidlaw - 19/04/2011 - 28 comments

Open borders is the answer to illegal immigration

by David McMullen - 21/01/2011 - 78 comments

Government deception won't reduce family violence

by Greg Andresen - 9/06/2011 - 124 comments

Open letter to the Defence Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister and Attorney General

by Greg Barns and 46 others - 8/07/2011 - 35 comments

Australia's moral compass: child refugees

by Paul McDonald - 18/08/2011 - 11 comments

The biological difference between riots and revolution

by Hendrik Gommer - 22/08/2011 - 5 comments

What the Malaysian refugee High Court decision says

by Katy Barnett - 2/09/2011 - 6 comments

Dutch death squads

by Paul Russell - 12/12/2011 - 21 comments

Hate speech laws serve a purpose

by Dilan Thampapillai - 12/04/2011 - 20 comments

Israel evolving: the urgent need for peace

by Houston Ash - 26/09/2011 - 5 comments

The trial of Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac : a farce from beginning to end.

by Mishka Góra - 28/09/2011 - 20 comments

Now that Bolt has lost is the law itself on trial?

by Dilan Thampapillai - 6/10/2011 - 52 comments

Same sex marriage: an agnostic's view

by Don Allan - 14/10/2011 - 81 comments

Social and legal demands of victims of abuse

by Jennifer Wilson - 2/12/2011 - 41 comments

Corruption and economic success can cohabit

by Chris Lewis - 14/02/2011 - 5 comments

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