Professor Tamara Walsh finds that for some children, the basic comforts available in youth detention facilities make their incarceration far more appealing than life in the sometimes disadvantaged homes they were fleeing.
South Sudan’s Chief Justice, Chan Reec Madut, has been implicated in serious corruption allegations since independence. As a consequence, the constitutional lines of power have become blurred as his overreach interferes with the separation of powers.
A parliamentary inquiry has endorsed Professor Patrick Parkinson’s proposal for a multidisciplinary tribunal to manage parenting disputes for those unable to afford legal representation.
Employees and journalists who expose organisational corruption are in danger of criminal charges under severe and complex national security laws, according to University of Queensland academics.
FEATURE | As World Press Freedom Day approaches, discover more about the legislative threats to press freedom in Australia and the reforms required now.
Like dogs and cats, snakes and rats, journalists and the government are not supposed to be friends. But can they at least talk to each other? Peter Greste writes for The Conversation.
FEATURE | Journalists must be protected from prosecution in a much-needed overhaul of Australia’s Espionage Act 2018, according to a group of academics pushing for reform.
Professor Peter Greste reflects on the latest Assange extradition ruling, asking if this is a victory for Assange and his supporters, or a blow to those who believe this case to be about protecting press freedom?
The “Richardson Review” – culminated in a four-volume declassified report containing 203 recommendations (13 of them classified) – has been embraced by the government, which took almost a year to consider the classified report.
