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23 Sep 2016, 1:11 pm by Alexis Wheeler
UN experts condemned [text] Australia Friday for its laws allowing indefinite detention of intellectually disabled persons facing criminal charges. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 12:37 pm by Tate Brown
Australia's House of Representatives [official website] on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved [minutes] a bill [text, PDF] legalizing same-sex marriage, with just four votes in opposition. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 8:20 am
[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Thursday ruled unanimously [judgment text] that two Sri Lankan men held offshore on Christmas Island had been denied procedural fairness. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 1:34 pm by aling
Ian Haney López cited by Mail & Guardian, March 15, 2018 Dog whistling politics, and by this we mean “expressing racially loaded ideas in coded terms”, as … Ian Haney Lopez explains it, has become part of the armoury of conservative politicians in Australia since Howard’s time. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 2:34 pm by Jerry Votava
[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] ruled [judgment] Friday that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot be held liable for the copyright infringement of their customers in the case of Roadshow Films v. iiNet Limited. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 6:00 pm
[JURIST] The executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC) [official website], said Thursday that the United States and Australia want to participate in negotiations for a new global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol [PDF text; JURIST news archive], set to expire in 2012. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Peter Roberts is Australia's only music-thanatologist: a specialized musician who marries end of life care with harp and voice performances to serve the needs of the terminally ill. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 12:59 pm
Australia is seeking an injunction against "scientific whaling" in the Southern Ocean, indicating in the complaint that it has... [read post]
13 Aug 2016, 8:45 am by Mark Casper
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] reiterated previous calls [press release] to Australia Friday to end offshore detention on Nauru. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 7:00 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
ABC News: “Both the United Kingdom and Australia said Thursday that they have opened formal investigations into Facebook amid allegations that their citizens’ data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 11:28 am by Meena Ansari
[JURIST] Australia's offshore detention of asylum seekers constitutes a human rights violation, according to a petition [text, PDF] filed Monday in the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] by a coalition of legal experts. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 9:09 am
[JURIST] An Australian court on Wednesday ordered four companies and the captain of a cargo ship to stand trial over a 2009 oil spill [BBC backgrounder] that resulted in more than 53,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the coastal waters surrounding Australia. [read post]
5 May 2013, 8:25 am by Mark Summerfield
  To put this in perspective, in 2012 IP Australia granted a total of 17,724 patents, so those two weeks’ of requests alone added the better part of a year’s worth of examination work to the pipeline. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 5:15 am by EEM
Here are a few new blogs that comment on asylum and refugee matters in Australia, Canada, and the U.S., and that raise awareness about migrant health issues and human trafficking.Asylum & Refugee Law Project [access]- Student-led research group that aims to "explore and critically analyse Australian refugee law and policy and its human effects. [read post]
30 Sep 2016, 1:25 pm by Brenda Fulmer
  The post Australia Concerned About Stryker Made LFIT Femoral Heads appeared first on Searcy Law. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 3:45 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
Australia’s WorkCover NSW and NSW Public Works recently signed an interagency agreement to improve consistency in workplace health and safety standards across more than a billion dollars of public assets. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 5:20 pm
In Bashman news from Australia: The West Australian has a news update headlined "Masked thugs bash man. [read post]