The dangers of legislating in response to individual cases is being highlighted in WA, where horrific and callous injuries to a policeman – with the accused being acquitted at trial – have the government and opposition competing to see who can be ‘toughe…
Coronial inquests, on which many tens of millions of dollars are spent each year, should be saving lives. But throughout Australia, their considered recommendations are being ignored in more than 50% of cases.
Coronial recommendations should be sav…
How many Iraqis and Afghans have Australian troops captured since 2002? The Defence Minister won’t say. Have any been renditioned, or tortured after being handed over to other coalition forces? The Defence Minister won’t or can’t say. The Australian peop…
Conrad Black, in an email interview from prison, claims the US justice system is in collapse. He particularly highlights rot in the plea bargaining system, and lack of restraint by prosecutors.
Former global publisher (including of Australian vehicles…
One of the world’s most respected legal bodies, the International Commission of Jurists, reported in February 2009 that the anti-terrorism laws passed after 11 September 2001 by Australia and other nations have undermined the rule of law and harmed th…
A United Nations committee is adjudicating on a claim by 20 Indigenous Australians that the federal government’s intervention in the Northern Territory is racist. What will the Australian Government do when the UN finds the claim proven…as it most like…