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Keywords: Judicial System

  • RELIGION

    Are we asleep at the wheel?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.  

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Selective evidence

    • Steven Churches
    • 14 May 2006

    Was the decision to deny the Bakhtiyaris refugee status based on all the facts?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Echoes of war

    • Dawn Delaney
    • 11 May 2006

    Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Bearing witness

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 08 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.    

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Liberty and justice

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 30 April 2006

    Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Joan Kimm, Michael Donovan and Tim Usherwood
    • 25 April 2006

    Letters from Joan Kimm, Michael Donovan and Tim Usherwood

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Terror tactics

    • Jack Waterford
    • 24 April 2006

    John Howard, the state premiers and the federal ALP are playing politics with terrorism.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why I quit the department

    • Tom Davis
    • 24 April 2006

    The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Guatemala’s unforgiven

    • Lucy Turner
    • 23 April 2006

    As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free

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