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Representing Mehreen Faruqi against Pauline Hanson was a lesson in resilience, grace and courage

‘Mehreen Faruqi is a brave woman. She has carried her burden out of the shadows where Hanson would have had her remain, and the justice system has, this time, lightened the load.’

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Towing the NACC out to sea and sinking it might be the best option now

Lawyers for the people the NACC was supposed to investigate were allowed to help draft the decision that let their clients off the hook.

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Australia’s war on protesters should concern you

Pro-Palestine marches and rallies across Australia have sharpened a long-developing governmental desire to crack down on protests.

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Woolies, Coles price gouging is morally indistinguishable from theft. It will happen again

Investing corporations with their own legal identity was a mistake because it implies they have a soul. They do not.

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Was Australia’s refusal to vote on the Israel-Gaza UN resolution justified?

A closer look at the resolution shows us that Australia’s declared position masks a diplomatic anxiety about the elephant in the room.

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Is Dutton racist? Doesn’t matter. Does he practise racism in public life? Yes, beyond doubt

Being racist is, appropriately, not illegal. Racial discrimination is unlawful. The hard question is determining when the performance of racist beliefs, by words, should be outside the law.

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Dutton’s never seen a division he didn’t think was worth stoking — but now he’s being sued for it

The opposition leader knows exactly which fears he is playing into.

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Rupert’s legal argument finally drops the facade that News was ever a news business at all

‘In the end, Rupert Murdoch is just another king, on a lonely throne, ruling an empire of cards, scheming, ever scheming, to keep doing so even from the grave.’

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Is Australia’s position reasonable after the ICJ ruling on Israel?

The media has generally reported the ICJ’s opinion as ‘non-binding’. The truth is a little more complicated.

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A two-state solution now seems impossible. How will Australia respond?

‘Whatever the two-state solution was prior to these developments, it is now most certainly a mirage thanks to the Knesset. The ICJ’s move makes it all the more plain.’

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The State Library of Victoria furore is about censorship, not Palestine

Libraries are a symbol of freedom where creativity and provocation should thrive.

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Politicians panicking about ‘faith-based’ forces need to look at Australia’s history

Is our magically secular law really under religious threat for the first time? Hardly.

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Peter Dutton’s nuclear fiction ignores too many legal obstacles

To get his case across the line, the opposition leader would also be forced to argue that climate change is not only real but desperately so.

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NACC shouldn’t exist if it’s going to dog its remit by ignoring robodebt

Anti-corruption bodies exist to focus lights into dark corners and flush out the rats.

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The ABC made the stick it beats itself with

Antoinette Lattouf was sacked from the ABC for breaching a social media policy nobody at the broadcaster seems to be able to articulate.

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If Bowen sued News Corp over ‘Hamas’ headline, the company would lose

Three defences often raised by clients threatened with defamation are ‘It was a mistake’, ‘But I took it down’ and ‘I didn’t mean it that way’. None matter.

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The ICC holds little, if any, power. So what’s the point of its arrest warrants?

There is a rationale behind demanding accountability, even if actual justice is only a remote chance. But I worry we are descending into farce.

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Councils should have no power at all when it comes to basic freedoms

Australian anti-discrimination laws basically say that if a person has been treated less favourably than they would have been if they did not have the relevant attribute, that’s unlawful discrimination.

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Mehreen Faruqi’s case against Pauline Hanson is about racial discrimination, not defamation. There’s a big difference

‘If you’ve never felt the sting of racist abuse, you might think it’s no different from being defamed.’

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If Lehrmann wins, he may still lose: here’s what Justice Lee will be weighing up

The Bruce Lehrmann defamation circus is preparing to take down its tent ahead of Justice Lee’s verdict. But what are the possible outcomes?

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Seven’s chequebook journalism is a disgrace for which it should be held accountable

In failing to disclose it paid a number of extraordinary expenses for Bruce Lehrmann, Seven perpetuated an unforgivable fraud on the public. Can we ever trust the broadcaster again?

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Labor’s refugee-bashing bill is terrible law. Minority government can’t come soon enough

‘It is bad law, in flagrant disregard of our international human rights obligations.’

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What on earth is going on with religious discrimination in Australia?

Religious discrimination is back on the legislative menu in 2024. But do our elected representatives really understand what they’re messing with here?

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Australia has quietly walked away from a panicked anti-doxxing promise

Now that criminality is off the table, there’s less to worry about.

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Kerr calling a cop a ‘white bastard’ isn’t reverse racism — precedent proves it

Some are calling Kerr racist for her comments. Me? I say erect a statue of her chucking her guts up in an English cab.

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