Keywords: High Court Judges
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 July 2006
In February all seven judges of the High Court threw out Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock’s ‘privative clause’ which was an attempt to deny asylum seekers and all other visa applicants access to the courts.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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AUSTRALIA
- Virginia Bourke
- 24 June 2006
The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Michele Gierck
- 31 May 2006
Ten years after the genocide Rwanda still mourns its dead.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 18 May 2006
It could be time to think of abandoning the present system of native land title, which mainly benefits lawyers. A better system may be an arbitral system that declares what the rights of the parties ought to be according to the justice and circumstances of the individual case.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Steven Churches
- 14 May 2006
Was the decision to deny the Bakhtiyaris refugee status based on all the facts?
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RELIGION
- 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
Anthony Ham on power and politics in the world’s third-poorest country.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Hugh Dillon
- 30 April 2006
Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.
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RELIGION
- 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
- Joan Kimm, Michael Donovan and Tim Usherwood
- 25 April 2006
Letters from Joan Kimm, Michael Donovan and Tim Usherwood
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