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The Voice: It’s a Marriage Proposal not a Divorce Petition
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The untold story of disability discrimination in Australia’s election and referendum procedures
Australia has been called ’the most voter-friendly country in the world’, a label which obscures the fact that Australia’s electoral laws deny some people with physical or motor disabilities the opportunity to cast a genuinely secret vote, and infringe upon their right to equal participation. Efforts to amend this issue have thus far fallen on…
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“For with them our futures rest”: Reflections on the Voice to Parliament from a lifetime advocating for the self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
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‘Ask Us First’: a student-lead Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Voice to Parliament Clinic project
Last week, we launched a video campaign for the upcoming referendum. First Nations professors, artists, athletes and experts answer Australia’s questions about the Voice to Parliament. Designed to restore fact, nuance and personal perspectives to the Voice conversation, ASK US FIRST was created by Monash University law students in the Castan Centre Voice to Parliament…
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The Voice referendum is in the national interest
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Gender apartheid in Iran and Afghanistan: Recognising the crime in international law
Women in Iran are under direct attack by the Iranian regime, and in Afghanistan, the Taliban wishes to erase them from society completely. The situation worsens when intersectional factors are taken into consideration, such as ethnicity and religion. While gender-based persecution is recognised as one of the crimes against humanity, segregation and subjugation on the…
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