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17 Jul 2007, 1:36 am
[JURIST] Lawyers and rights groups joined in criticism of Australia's continued detention of UK terror suspect Dr. [read post]
12 Jul 2007, 9:13 pm
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [ACCC] in Australia asserts that Google "engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct" by allowing Trading Post to buy ads in the name of the car dealerships. [read post]
14 Sep 2006, 3:18 am
The new bill was proposed after Australia Governor-General Michael Jeffrey [official website] allowed the federal government to effectively veto [JURIST [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 8:10 am
[JURIST] Australia confirmed Monday that it will accept three Cuban asylum seekers currently held at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] Migrations Operation Center. [read post]
26 Aug 2006, 3:28 pm
[JURIST] Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock told Australian TV [Sky News Australia report] Saturday that he has received assurances from the US government that it will not seek the death penalty in an anticipated new military trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 5:09 am
[JURIST] The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) [official website] promised to continue fighting to adopt legislation that would grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships after Australia's attorney general recommended Tuesday that the country's federal government overturn a proposed civil unions law for the second time. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 2:47 am
[JURIST] The Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court of Victoria [official website] in Australia on Friday quashed the conviction of Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas [advocacy website], the first Australian jailed under the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 [text]. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 3:03 pm
[JURIST] The Federal Court of Australia [official website] on Wednesday ruled that a lower court made several errors of law in its 2006 decision [text] giving Aborigines native title [NNTT backgrounder] to land in the Australian city of Perth, and said that the case must be reheard. [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 6:12 pm
Effective 01 November 2008, applicants may select IP Australia (IPAU) as the International Searching Authority (ISA) in international applications filed in the United States Receiving Office (RO/US). [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 2:24 am
[JURIST] The Australian government will request the return of Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archives] if the US fails to charge him under the revised military commissions framework, Australia's attorney general told a meeting of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) [official website] Monday. [read post]
31 May 2009, 7:23 am
Fairfax is reporting that Australia's only sex change clinic has been shut down temporarily, with reports that half of the patients diagnosed as transgendered had borderline personality disorder and should never have been operated on.The claims come on top of claims by a former patient who says that she was misdiagnosed as male, and is seeking for the founder to be censured by Victorian medical [read post]
14 May 2008, 3:05 am
Rudd characterized [ABC Australia [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 4:27 am
I have not independently verified this but a physician op-ed in the Brisbane Times, this week, makes Australia end-of-life care look twice as aggressive as in the U.S., which is, in turn, twice or more as aggressive as in the U.K. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 4:25 am
Until about a year ago, four Australian jurisdictions prohibited same sex couples from adopting: Victoria Queensland South Australia Northern Territory Since then, Victoria and Queensland have passed laws removing that [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 3:10 am
[JURIST] The Federal Court of Australia [official website] ruled Thursday that former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mamdouh Habib [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can sue the Australian government for complicity in his ill-treatment while incarcerated in Pakistan, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 4:10 am
Today's Australian Jewish News reports that Jewish members of Australia's Federal Parliament are generally opposing a call by the The Green party to end the century-old tradition of opening each day's session of Parliament with the recitation of the Lord's Prayer. [read post]
12 Jan 2006, 11:27 am
[JURIST] Croatia [JURIST news archive] plans to ask the government of Australia [JURIST news archive] to extradite former Serb commander "Captain Dragan" Vasiljkovic [News.com report], charged with war crimes committed during Croatia's 1991-1995 independence war. [read post]
19 Sep 2005, 1:05 am
[JURIST] Approximately 900 detainees held in Australian Department of Immigration [official website] detention camps have caused themselves injury [JURIST news report] during the past three years, according to documents obtained by Macquarie University academic Denise Leith under Australia's Freedom of Information Act. [read post]
10 Apr 2006, 2:06 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] said Monday that he will provide a statement [press release] to the judicial inquiry [Cole Commission official website] into Australia's involvement in the oil-for-food scandal [JURIST news archive], offering to appear before the panel if necessary. [read post]
10 Aug 2006, 3:13 am
[JURIST] The Australian House of Representatives [official website] approved the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill [PDF text] by a margin of 78-62 Thursday, a bill that will require asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat to be processed in offshore camps. [read post]
