Keywords: Judicial System
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
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The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 April 2009
3 Comments
We need to be on our guard against laws and policies enacted in the name of the public interest but with insufficient consideration for the human rights of the minority.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo AcuÑa
- 24 March 2009
1 Comment
US Republicans lobbied President Obama to impose hardships on Salvadorians livingin the US should the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front win last week's election. When the left did triumph, he did the opposite and congratulated the new leader.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sebastian Strangio
- 23 February 2009
1 Comment
It was a momentous event: a senior leader of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime standing trial in a court of law. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has set itself a
mandate that goes far beyond rendering impartial verdicts.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 28 July 2008
4 Comments
If Singapore's courts convict ABC journalist Peter Lloyd of drug charges, his sentence may include 15 lashes. In a better world, 'restorative justice' would allow him to do something positive to counter the social ills that led to his actions.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
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The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
Australia's refugee regime may represent the Western world's worst practice. The Government has
abolished flawed and dehumanising temporary protection visas, but a more substantial review is required to ensure asylum seekers enjoy equal protection under Australian law.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sebastian Strangio
- 09 April 2008
After nearly three decades of legal impunity, justice is finally catching up with the surviving Khmer Rouge leadership. But there's every chance the defendants will be dead before the courts have a chance to bring them to trial.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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