Keywords: Legal Profession
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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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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Hodge
- 31 October 2007
There is extensive evidence of US intelligence gathering techniques, much of it derived from declassified documents. It points to a clearly navigable path from the paranoia of the anti-communist post-WWII era to Abu Ghraib.
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AUSTRALIA
- Maurice Rickard
- 19 September 2007
A far reaching social reform such as uniform fertility laws requires sustained debate. It's not up to legislators and medical practitioners to decide what constitutes a proper use of medicine. Medicine is fundamentally a social practice, one whose goals and purposes in which the entire community has a legitimate stake.
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RELIGION
- Geoffrey King
- 13 June 2007
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Whether the imposition of an oath will further its aim is extremely doubtful. An oath is a legal instrument of a rather blunt kind, of its nature demanding only minimal compliance, whereas what is needed is a positive atmosphere in which traditions and values can be learned and appreciated.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
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The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Minchin
- 26 June 2006
James Minchin reviews Chris Lydgate’s Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Georgina Costello
- 31 May 2006
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Georgina Costello critiques Tasmania’s proposal to legalise prostitution.
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