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Law & Liberties - 2013

Jekyll and Hyde: the poor man’s Anti-Discrimination Bill

by Moira Clarke - 2/01/2013 - 27 comments

'Til death - or an EPA - us do part

by Angela Smith - 4/01/2013 - 5 comments

Scrap the states? Would we have to scrap the constitution too?

by Gabrielle Appleby - 4/01/2013 - 61 comments

Optimising the inquiry into child sex abuse

by Evan Whitton - 8/01/2013 - 2 comments

Boycotting Sri Lanka is not cricket

by Stuart Rees - 9/01/2013 - 12 comments

Directly chosen by the people

by James Page - 11/01/2013 - 11 comments

Electronic discrimination: Iran’s web-based enemies

by Kourosh Ziabari - 22/01/2013 - 4 comments

Conscription was an abuse

by Bruce Haigh - 22/01/2013 - 39 comments

An eye for an eye in human rights law

by David Palmer - 23/01/2013 - 13 comments

Pernicious authority and poor administration or just bad journalism?

by Jocelynne Scutt - 24/01/2013 - 10 comments

Sizzle a mistake

by Collett Smart - 29/01/2013 - 6 comments

Spare parts

by Ian Nance - 29/01/2013 - 18 comments

Offence is taken, not given

by David Leyonhjelm - 30/01/2013 - 48 comments

Does the CPACS boycott of Israel pass the 'racism' test?

by Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz - 31/01/2013 - 15 comments

The lust that dare not speak its name

by Evelyn Tsitas - 5/02/2013 - 30 comments

Free speech challenge to Australian vilification laws

by Jo Coghlan - 6/02/2013 - 18 comments

Discrimination must not be tolerated

by David Swanton - 7/02/2013 - 7 comments

Jobs for the girls

by Babette Francis - 11/02/2013 - 22 comments

Lincoln, the crown succession and the republic

by Jocelynne Scutt - 13/02/2013 - 3 comments

Abandoning Julian

by John Pilger - 18/02/2013 - 28 comments

Living between the devil and the deep blue sea

by Shira Sebban - 21/02/2013 - 34 comments

Getting away with torture

by Aloysia Brooks and Kellie Tranter - 21/02/2013 - 5 comments

Loose lips mean profits

by Robert Darby - 22/02/2013 - 33 comments

Civil liberties in the old deep north

by Evan Whitton - 22/02/2013

Wilderian far-right an instructive nuisance

by Uthman Badar - 22/02/2013 - 59 comments

Our fragile liberty

by Bruce Haigh - 25/02/2013 - 98 comments

How much intolerance must we tolerate?

by Xavier Symons - 26/02/2013 - 26 comments

The increasing threat from Islam

by Des Moore - 26/02/2013 - 20 comments

Anti-Islam: is history repeating itself?

by Ali Kazak - 27/02/2013 - 31 comments

Why are family courts out of step?

by Charles Pragnell - 28/02/2013 - 25 comments

An Aussie head of state matters globally

by Jieh-Yung Lo - 28/02/2013 - 11 comments

Liberty dhimminished

by Babette Francis - 1/03/2013 - 17 comments

Sex selection abortion

by Sonja Couroupis - 1/03/2013 - 37 comments

RU486 can lead to jail

by Jenny Ejlak - 4/03/2013 - 13 comments

German doctors apologise

by Lachlan Dunjey - 4/03/2013 - 27 comments

Be afraid, very afraid: vigilantism and the culture of fear

by Robert Simms - 4/03/2013 - 17 comments

AIJAC response to Kazak

by Colin Rubenstein - 5/03/2013 - 22 comments

A century of civil liberties

by Daemon Singer - 6/03/2013 - 50 comments

How is Wilders different to these?

by Ali Kazak - 8/03/2013 - 14 comments

Habeas corpus still manquee

by Heidi Kingstone - 11/03/2013

Australia cannot ignore rights abuses in West Papua

by Rachael Bongiorno - 12/03/2013 - 26 comments

Cutting the cruelty from cosmetics

by George Seymour - 14/03/2013 - 2 comments

The indifference of the bystander

by Vic Alhadeff - 13/03/2013 - 16 comments

How low can they go?

by Melissa Phillips - 14/03/2013 - 31 comments

India's new surrogacy laws are only part of the equation

by Liz Bishop - 14/03/2013 - 3 comments

Ali Kazak cries wolf on racism

by Colin Rubenstein - 15/03/2013 - 33 comments

Love unbarred

by Sophie Love - 18/03/2013 - 6 comments

News Corporation has no-one to blame but itself

by Alan Austin - 18/03/2013 - 42 comments

Conroy ram-raids media freedom

by John Harrison - 19/03/2013 - 12 comments

False reassurances: Tasmania's Abortion Information Paper

by Babette Francis - 19/03/2013 - 77 comments

Rough paternalism: the Conroy media proposals

by Binoy Kampmark - 19/03/2013 - 4 comments

What Will and Kate can do for Australia?

by Denis Dragovic - 20/03/2013 - 15 comments

FOIA, government-funded climate science and hole-digging

by Jennifer Marohasy - 20/03/2013 - 8 comments

Fears over Queensland Government Workers Compensation review

by Mark O'Connor - 25/03/2013

The lottery in which we all participate

by Geoff Wall - 27/03/2013 - 15 comments

Gaming the political process just makes the public more cynical

by Greg Donnelly - 28/03/2013

Human rights in action: learning from social justice advocates

by Christina David, Russell Solomon and Paul Ramcharan - 2/04/2013 - 6 comments

A small step in legal reform, a giant leap for justice

by Tom Mann - 3/04/2013 - 2 comments

Geert Wilders: a radical view of Islam

by Klaas Woldring - 4/04/2013 - 32 comments

Why schools should abandon biometrics

by Mal Fletcher - 9/04/2013 - 3 comments

A plethora of experts, but few with knowledge

by Bruce Haigh - 15/04/2013 - 8 comments

Government needs honesty on Shariah

by Joseph Wakim - 15/04/2013 - 20 comments

The significance of Senator John Madigan's bill

by Babette Francis - 15/04/2013 - 10 comments

Autonomy or automatons? (or 'autonomy anomaly'?)

by Paul Russell - 18/04/2013 - 1 comment

Insidious discrimination

by Laura Soderlind - 19/04/2013 - 12 comments

'New Zealand!' is not an argument for same-sex marriage

by Blaise Joseph - 22/04/2013 - 73 comments

Neo-liberalism and illicit drug liberalization: a natural alliance?

by Philip Mendes - 22/04/2013 - 10 comments

Suspected but not charged: the Rolf Harris problem

by Binoy Kampmark - 23/04/2013 - 21 comments

The dark face of absolute liberty

by Bill Calcutt - 24/04/2013 - 11 comments

Legalisation won't resolve the debate

by Mark Christensen - 26/04/2013 - 68 comments

Killed for being the wrong gender

by Bill Muehlenberg - 30/04/2013 - 79 comments

Economic blockade and WikiLeaks: Iceland and beyond

by Binoy Kampmark - 30/04/2013 - 1 comment

Utilitarianism and drugs in sport

by Simon Smart - 1/05/2013 - 4 comments

State of imprisonment

by John Pilger - 1/05/2013 - 3 comments

Happy families = a healthy economy

by Babette Francis - 2/05/2013 - 10 comments

Foxtel’s bestiality billboard is last straw: industry must be regulated

by Lyle Shelton - 2/05/2013 - 33 comments

How to stop the boats

by David Leyonhjelm - 6/05/2013 - 130 comments

Corruption in Chinese eyes

by Xue Wang - 6/05/2013 - 3 comments

Double standards in religious free speech

by Alex Perrottet - 9/05/2013 - 26 comments

The rule of law – or the rule of central bankers?

by Sukrit Sabhlok - 13/05/2013 - 76 comments

Tony Abbott goes back to court in June

by Alan Austin - 13/05/2013 - 101 comments

The Salvation Army is a branch of government

by Bruce Haigh - 16/05/2013 - 37 comments

Are same sex ties the bonds that break the Libs?

by Thomas Ryan - 22/05/2013 - 87 comments

In Pakistan elections are no guarantee of liberal democracy

by Riaz Hassan - 23/05/2013 - 3 comments

Media piracy and the rise of the libertine consumer

by Trajce Cvetkovski - 23/05/2013 - 5 comments

Is gay marriage's promise illusory?

by Mark Christensen - 23/05/2013 - 55 comments

The death penalty is not progress in modern society

by Michael Hayworth - 24/05/2013 - 89 comments

Criticism of Israel is not anti-semitic per se

by George Browning - 24/05/2013 - 79 comments

Terrorism - Obama statement seriously deficient

by Des Moore - 27/05/2013 - 13 comments

Guantanamo, drone strikes and the non-war terror war

by Marjorie Cohn - 27/05/2013 - 4 comments

Adam Goodes - The cutting taunt of a 13-year-old

by Michael Viljoen - 27/05/2013 - 25 comments

From Iraq a tragic reminder to prosecute the war criminals

by John Pilger - 28/05/2013 - 6 comments

Abortion gets leave pass from ethical and medical standards

by Debbie Garratt - 28/05/2013 - 20 comments

No more power to Canberra

by Brant Rippon - 30/05/2013 - 3 comments

Thanking Bradley Manning

by Kathy Kelly - 31/05/2013 - 21 comments

Some forms of criticism of Israel can indeed be antisemitic

by Ahron Shapiro - 31/05/2013 - 18 comments

The Goodes and Eddies of unconscious racism

by Michel Poelman - 3/06/2013 - 114 comments

Same-sex marriage and the 'motherless generation'

by David van Gend - 5/06/2013 - 56 comments

Bradley Manning's legal duty to expose war crimes

by Marjorie Cohn - 6/06/2013 - 19 comments

Government corruption and the local government referendum

by David Galloway - 11/06/2013 - 3 comments

We're not racist, just trying to stop boats

by Lyn Bender - 11/06/2013 - 143 comments

Thanks, but no thanks - a response to Uthman Badar

by Timothy Cootes - 12/06/2013 - 14 comments

Edward Snowden: should Australians be worried?

by Peter Coates - 13/06/2013 - 22 comments

Private lives, public knowledge

by Tom Clifford - 14/06/2013 - 7 comments

Commission missing in action when it comes to human rights

by Sev Ozdowski - 18/06/2013 - 3 comments

Good Shepherd Sisters denying history

by Adele Chynoweth - 19/06/2013 - 12 comments

Women who have lost their way

by Rachael Romero - 20/06/2013 - 5 comments

Elder abuse – the ‘long-term grinding down of the soul’

by Paul Russell - 24/06/2013 - 7 comments

The streaker's defence

by Alison Broinowski - 26/06/2013 - 5 comments

Land of the free to be monitored

by Tom Clifford - 26/06/2013 - 9 comments

Parental leave inquiry is investigating the obvious

by Brendan O'Reilly - 26/06/2013 - 2 comments

The Prince of Denmark defence

by Evan Whitton - 1/07/2013 - 2 comments

The most powerful word

by Bill Calcutt - 28/06/2013 - 6 comments

Media can help in the fight against age discrimination

by Susan Ryan - 1/07/2013 - 8 comments

Local government referendum should be rejected in interests of the federation

by Grant Wyeth - 5/07/2013 - 14 comments

People who pretend to be your friend: collaborators and traitors

by Robert Burrowes - 5/07/2013 - 14 comments

Can boat people be turned back?

by Everald Compton - 9/07/2013 - 33 comments

Does the Human Rights Commission treat some groups more equally than others?

by Brendan O'Reilly - 9/07/2013 - 11 comments

Democracy's hidden wiring

by J R Nethercote - 10/07/2013 - 1 comment

Truth, justice and human rights

by Peter Sellick - 11/07/2013 - 15 comments

The return to Rudd: a turn for the worse on asylum seeker policy?

by Azadeh Dastyari - 11/07/2013 - 34 comments

Human rights have no foundation

by Peter Sellick - 12/07/2013 - 30 comments

Labor's tide in and out on boats

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 12/07/2013 - 21 comments

Visions and values of Australia's Governors-General

by David Smith - 18/07/2013 - 17 comments

Meanwhile in Ireland, citizens take the lead

by David Morris - 18/07/2013 - 3 comments

CBA/BankWest unconscionability and the courts

by Evan Jones - 18/07/2013 - 1 comment

Key mistakes sway jury in Zimmerman trial

by Marjorie Cohn - 19/07/2013 - 25 comments

Parties climb over asylum seekers for victory

by Lionel Bopage - 19/07/2013 - 42 comments

Boat people: saleable commodities to an ambitious politician

by Don Allan - 22/07/2013 - 7 comments

The boat stops here

by Humph Applebee - 22/07/2013 - 7 comments

Rudd's refugee solution: politically brilliant, morally bankrupt

by Mirko Bagaric - 22/07/2013 - 52 comments

Australia and xenophobia

by Philip Machanick - 25/07/2013 - 74 comments

Asylum a problem? No fear mate.

by Robert Battisti - 25/07/2013 - 5 comments

Cruelty by any other name still stinks

by Jordan Sosnowski - 25/07/2013 - 3 comments

Right embarrassed by the truth

by Richard Stokes - 26/07/2013 - 8 comments

Harpooning ourselves in the foot

by Brendan O'Reilly - 29/07/2013 - 6 comments

'Anzac', 'cyber' and 'drone' are all five-letter words

by David Stephens - 30/07/2013 - 31 comments

Refugee policy: I’m not feeling good

by Bruce Haigh - 30/07/2013 - 55 comments

Australian parents should reject any smacking ban

by Bob McCoskrie - 30/07/2013 - 34 comments

How should humans treat animals?

by Allen Greer - 31/07/2013 - 13 comments

PNG could be paradise

by Craig Minns - 2/08/2013 - 31 comments

Smacks of denial

by Joseph Gelfer - 5/08/2013 - 22 comments

Saving Julian Assange

by Lyn Bender - 7/08/2013 - 10 comments

Rudd's 'greatest moral challenge'

by Robert Simms - 9/08/2013 - 12 comments

Show us your social licence

by Richard Stanton - 9/08/2013 - 7 comments

The courage of Bradley Manning will inspire others to seize their moment of truth

by John Pilger - 9/08/2013 - 13 comments

It's time - to enrol

by Andrew Leigh - 12/08/2013 - 3 comments

Exiting the maze

by Ingolf Eide - 12/08/2013 - 10 comments

Online sexual harassment: conceptualising women’s experiences in the digital age

by Jessica Megarry - 12/08/2013 - 6 comments

Why the academic boycott of Israel is not anti-Semitic

by Ciara O'Loughlin - 15/08/2013 - 44 comments

The rule of law: unjust and violent

by Robert Burrowes - 15/08/2013 - 4 comments

Defending Russian gay sex laws

by Gari Sullivan - 19/08/2013 - 19 comments

Election notes: euthanasia dark clouds

by Paul Russell - 19/08/2013 - 14 comments

Anyone for tennis?

by Babette Francis - 20/08/2013 - 15 comments

Repudiation of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

by Peter Auton - 23/08/2013 - 9 comments

Essendon besieged

by Max Atkinson - 26/08/2013

Disability no justification for inequality

by David Heckendorf - 28/08/2013

The Tasmanian Dams Case 30 years on

by Neveshevida Balasubramanian - 29/08/2013

Voluntary euthanasia alection ads banned

by Fiona Patten - 4/09/2013 - 13 comments

Same-sex marriage should go to the people

by Lyle Shelton - 6/09/2013 - 40 comments

Same-sex marriage not a vote winner

by Lyle Shelton - 9/09/2013 - 63 comments

What price a quiet heart?

by Daemon Singer - 13/09/2013 - 25 comments

In defence of state and territory same-sex marriage laws

by Rodney Croome - 19/09/2013 - 65 comments

War by democracy

by Tim Pascoe - 19/09/2013 - 12 comments

Same sex (same old) marriage

by Kellie Toole - 20/09/2013 - 25 comments

The immorality of Victoria's prostitution laws

by Murray Hunter - 20/09/2013 - 3 comments

In an age of 'realists' and vigilantes, there is cause for optimism

by John Pilger - 20/09/2013 - 12 comments

Sharia finance uncovered

by Vickie Janson - 20/09/2013 - 148 comments

Praying for peace in Jerusalem

by Andrew Williams - 23/09/2013 - 18 comments

Without fear or favour

by Kellie Tranter - 25/09/2013 - 11 comments

Porn in the workplace ruling not a green light for hijinks

by Scott McSwan - 26/09/2013 - 3 comments

The Australian government's new stance on human rights?

by Murray Hunter - 26/09/2013 - 2 comments

Older workers wrongly shunned for jobs

by Ian Heathwood - 30/09/2013 - 19 comments

Finding separation of church and state for New Zealand

by Max Wallace and Meg Wallace - 30/09/2013 - 29 comments

Case of the twittering immigration employee

by Crispin Hull - 7/10/2013 - 4 comments

Tall ships need taller humanity on boat people

by Joseph Wakim - 9/10/2013 - 25 comments

'travel rorts'

by Don Aitkin - 11/10/2013 - 96 comments

Asylum seekers: turning back the ocean tides

by Kellie Tranter - 16/10/2013 - 28 comments

Doctors punished for helping pregnant women

by Terri Kelleher - 22/10/2013 - 38 comments

Justice: the Achille's heel of democracy

by Rodney Crisp - 28/10/2013 - 8 comments

Bikie laws sicken civil liberties

by Binoy Kampmark - 29/10/2013 - 20 comments

Senate reform: from voter confusion to voter power

by Neveshevida Balasubramanian - 30/10/2013 - 8 comments

Promises, promises: what's in a promise?

by Clarrie Burke - 30/10/2013 - 10 comments

Let the people decide on gay 'marriage'

by David van Gend - 31/10/2013 - 57 comments

Not us, not here, not now

by Rodney Croome - 1/11/2013 - 12 comments

The mess of marriage equality: the ACT and the constitution

by Binoy Kampmark - 1/11/2013 - 20 comments

Why have progressives neglected the republic?

by David Morris - 1/11/2013 - 17 comments

Our ABC myth makers

by Bill Muehlenberg - 4/11/2013 - 50 comments

Autonomy and self-control

by Rodney Crisp - 4/11/2013 - 9 comments

Valuing animals more than people

by David Leyonhjelm - 5/11/2013 - 17 comments

Prisons – help or hindrance?

by Adam Fletcher - 5/11/2013 - 6 comments

Separate but equal

by Joshua Taylor - 6/11/2013 - 17 comments

How to get policy right, in spite of democracy

by John Burnheim - 7/11/2013 - 1 comment

Anonymous Jew-hating cowards of the Internet

by David Singer - 7/11/2013 - 161 comments

Silencing the lambs: the LNP, libertarians and civil-libertarians

by Lester Thompson and Jo Coghlan - 11/11/2013 - 11 comments

Free speech battles: narrowing racial vilification in Australia

by Binoy Kampmark - 13/11/2013 - 27 comments

Blocking Aussie Jihadists is overdue

by Joseph Wakim - 12/11/2013 - 18 comments

How Australia is spying on its own

by Murray Hunter - 19/11/2013 - 29 comments

Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide

by Bruce Haigh - 12/11/2013 - 15 comments

The role of the law is not vengeance

by Joel Palte - 13/11/2013 - 13 comments

How a jesuit product turned a government into trappists

by Kevin Childs - 13/11/2013 - 6 comments

Smoke and mirrors and motorbikes

by Bill Calcutt - 13/11/2013 - 5 comments

On the monarchy and the flag

by Chas Keys - 14/11/2013 - 11 comments

TPVs breach human rights

by Kerry Murphy - 21/11/2013 - 19 comments

The R2P Myth

by Tim Pascoe - 22/11/2013 - 2 comments

The conundrums in using Down syndrome screening tests for gender selection

by Linda Atkins - 20/11/2013 - 22 comments

A tale of two conservatisms

by Babette Francis - 20/11/2013 - 5 comments

Security lessons from Israel

by Marika Sosnowski - 21/11/2013 - 13 comments

Who do we think we are?

by Ted Watt - 22/11/2013 - 10 comments

Older people need the internet too

by Susan Ryan - 25/11/2013 - 9 comments

Giving substance to wind

by Kali Goldstone - 26/11/2013 - 11 comments

New Tasmanian law aborts protests

by Chelsea Pietsch - 27/11/2013 - 62 comments

Antisemitism still alive in Australia

by Julie Nathan - 2/12/2013 - 101 comments

Savings for justice

by Evan Whitton - 4/12/2013 - 9 comments

Onus of proof and sex crimes

by Rodney Crisp - 4/12/2013 - 41 comments

Ensuring children’s online safety

by Michael Nycyk - 3/12/2013

Reviving the tradition of local marriage laws

by John Kloprogge - 4/12/2013 - 7 comments

Tasmania decriminalises abortion

by Ronli Sifris - 5/12/2013 - 23 comments

Lobbying elites: the fast track to extinction

by Robert Burrowes - 6/12/2013 - 5 comments

Blasphemy laws unreasonably infringe freedom of speech

by Ralph Seccombe - 12/12/2013 - 22 comments

Criminalising solidarity with Syria

by Uthman Badar - 13/12/2013 - 20 comments

Time to end the fetish of diversity

by Peter Kurti - 16/12/2013 - 14 comments

Why mandatory prison sentences are wrong

by John Spender - 16/12/2013 - 37 comments

Child sex abuse and the Catholic clergy

by Brendan O'Reilly - 17/12/2013 - 32 comments

Restoring whose balance?

by Russell Solomon - 18/12/2013 - 4 comments

The arbitrary nature of euthanasia 'safeguards'

by Paul Russell - 19/12/2013 - 14 comments

Law against racial vilification steeped in Australian history

by Peter Wertheim - 20/12/2013 - 139 comments

Don't shoot the marriage messenger

by Mal Fletcher - 20/12/2013 - 6 comments

Appointment of Mr Tim Wilson as Human Rights Commissioner

by Sev Ozdowski - 23/12/2013 - 28 comments

2014 will be an important year for marriage equality

by Rodney Croome - 31/12/2013 - 50 comments

Justification and excuse

by Max Atkinson - 31/12/2013 - 36 comments

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