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30 May 2024, 8:09 pm
Currently, Australia is the only western liberal democracy without a human rights act. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 2:06 am
[JURIST] Australia's justice minister has denounced the five year detention without trial of Australian citizen David Hicks [JURIST news archive, AI archive] in Australia's boldest official statement in several months concerning the Guantanamo prisoner. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 12:00 am
Yesterday Australia's human right commissioners- both for Australia and all the States and Territories called for equal marriage laws. [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 3:24 am
[JURIST] Australian acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard [official profile] on Saturday officially announced Australia's rejection of a US request to accept foreign Guantanamo detainees. [read post]
30 May 2009, 11:36 am
[JURIST] Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith [official profile] confirmed on Friday that Australia is considering the Obama administration's request that Australia accept six of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees [JURIST news archive] who have already been cleared for release. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 3:26 am
[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] has held in two separate cases that a "holder of a temporary protection visa is not entitled to further protection in Australia if they are no longer in danger in the country from which they fled" and that the person may not remain a refugee. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 4:10 am
[JURIST] Australia's Supreme Court of Victoria [official website] Tuesday sentenced Algerian cleric [sentencing remarks] Abdul Nacer Benbrika [BBC profile], also known as Abu Bakr, to at least 12 years in prison for his role in plotting large-scale terror attacks aimed at sporting venues and railway stations in Australia. [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 9:40 am
[JURIST] Australia has acquired exploration and drilling rights to an additional 2.5 million square kilometers of ocean shelf after a UN commission ruled that Australia's continental shelf extends farther than previously defined, the Australian government said Monday. [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 11:05 am
[JURIST] Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security [official website] has recommended the appointment of an independent reviewer [ABC Australia report] to oversee the nation's counter-terrorism laws [official backgrounder]. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 11:20 am
[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Thursday struck down [press release, PDF] an amendment to Australia's Commonwealth Electoral Act passed in 2006 that took voting rights away from all prisoners regardless of the length of their sentence, finding that the amendments stripped prisoners of a constitutional right in an arbitrary manner. [read post]
29 May 2010, 8:34 am
In a joint release, Australia's foreign and environmental ministers announced yesterday that early next week, "Australia will initiate legal action in the International Court of Justice in The Hague against Japanese 'scientific' whaling in the Southern Ocean. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 3:14 am
The passage of this Bill will ensure that the death penalty cannot be reintroduced anywhere in Australia in the future. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 2:01 am
They talked not only about Australia, but also about the role of social media in contributing to political polarization, the outlook for various business models funding journalism and what political solutions—other than Australia’s—might look like. [read post]
26 Nov 2021, 9:03 pm
There are 56 people sick in South Australia since September and three have been hospitalized. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 1:00 pm
"Dealing with the ‘Crimmigrant Other’ in the Face of a Global Public Health Threat: A Snapshot of Deportation during COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 8 (July 2021) [open access]"Food Insecurity and Food Label Comprehension among Libyan Migrants in Australia," Nutrients, vol. 13, no. 7 (July 2021) [open access]"It is All about the Numbers of Immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New… [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 1:41 am
ACIP has published its final report into the Enforcement of plant breeder’s rights in Australia. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 7:10 am
ACMA is a regulatory government body that oversees communication and media services in Australia. [read post]
11 May 2016, 4:39 am
Australia’s Intelligence Agencies There are six intelligence agencies in Australia, with their roles and functions split along similar lines as intelligence agencies in other countries. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 4:00 am
Commonwealth of Australia, (High Ct. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 12:58 am
Supermarket Power in Australia: Looking Back and Ahead _____ Public Symposium 2018 marks important milestones in the ongoing debate about the role and impact of the major supermarket chains in Australia’s grocery sector, economy and society. [read post]
