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Reforming Queensland’s termination of pregnancy laws
By Luca Cherubin and Troy Maher Our text for gambling In response to an inquiry by the Queensland Law Reform Commision (QLRC), Dr Ronli Sifris and Dr Tania Penovic recently made a submission on behalf of the Castan Centre for the review of the termination of pregnancy laws in Queensland. In Queensland, an abortion is…
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Why there should be no room in the law for celebrants to discriminate on same-sex marriage
By Becky Batagol Celebrants should not be free to discriminate against couples who ask them to perform a marriage ceremony. AAP/Alan Porritt The process of legislating for marriage equality is underway. Marriage celebrants are looking forward to Australia’s busiest-ever wedding season. However, with the proposed laws now on the table, not all marriages will be…
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High Court rules Tasmanian anti-protest law unconstitutional
By Dr Caroline Henckels Listen to our Have You Got That Right? podcast on the Tasmanian case In January 2016, former Greens Senator Bob Brown was filming an anti-logging video in Tasmania’s Lapoinya Forest when he was directed by a police officer to leave the vicinity. He was arrested and charged for failing to comply.…
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Court convicts woman for anti-abortion protesting
By Dr Ronli Sifris and Dr Tania Penovic In the Magistrates Court this week, anti-abortion protester Kathleen Clubb became the first person to be convicted of breaching Victoria’s safe access zone legislation. The 51-year-old mother of thirteen and active member of the anti-abortion group known as Helpers of God’s Precious Infants was found guilty…
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The Expansion of Ministerial Discretion in Refugee Law
By the Rights Advocacy Project Justice Felix Frankfurter once said that ‘[t]he accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority’. Justice Frankfurter’s aphorism applies to Australian migration law, where…
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Following the Money: Illuminating the path to justice for global land grabs
BY NATALIE BUGALSKI AND DAVID PRED This year, our organization, Inclusive Development International, launched the Follow the Money initiative – a new tool to fight land grabs and other corporate abuses. It’s a simple idea, but we believe it has the potential to be a game-changer. Every year, more than 15 million people are forcibly…
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