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Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate
By Stephen Gray and Thalia Anthony Prime Minister Scott Morrison asserted in a radio interview that “there was no slavery in Australia”. This is a common misunderstanding which often obscures our nation’s history of exploitation of First Nations people and Pacific Islanders. Morrison followed up with “I’ve always said we’ve got to be honest about our history”.…
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Monthly Human Rights Round-up – April
By Brianna Cox, Celeste Rebecchi, Lachlan Cameron and Zoë Tripovich Presenting the Castan Centre’s monthly human rights round-up, highlighting some of the month’s most important human rights news articles, and upcoming events. NEWS In Australia COVID-19 and Human Rights in Australia What Australia’s ‘extreme’ new coronavirus laws and police powers mean for our civil liberties –…
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Director’s Message
By Professor the Hon Kevin Bell AM QC, incoming Director of Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University My first official external appearance as the incoming Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law will be this Wednesday, 29 April 2020. It will be before the Royal Commission into Victoria’s…
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Welcoming New Associates
Dr Yee-Fui Ng Yee-Fui Ng is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University. She researches at the intersection of public law and politics, utilising empirical, doctrinal and comparative methodologies. Yee-Fui is the author of The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System (Routledge, 2018) and Ministerial Advisers in Australia: The Modern Legal Context (Federation Press, 2016), which was a…
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Religious discrimination bill – Porter must fix it or ditch it
By Luke Beck Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter on Monday published an article in this paper claiming his controversial religious discrimination bill is intended merely as a “shield”, and wrongly branding my criticisms of the bill as neither genuine nor constructive. The Attorney-General’s barbs were prompted by an article published in this paper last week explaining how the…
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Religious Discrimination Bill backfires on Christians
By Luke Beck Conservative Christians are some of the biggest supporters of Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination bill. But they should be careful what they wish for. It won’t just be gay people, women and people with disabilities who lose out under the proposed law. Christians will be among the biggest losers. Here’s what the bill…
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