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925Coroner & LegalJurisprudence and Julian Assange
According to Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights lawyer and adviser to Julian Assange, the British Supreme Court is likely to rule on...
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997Coroner & Legal
The case of Julian Assange: do constitutional principles matter?
“If he doesn’t win it means that anyone can be extradited from the UK, be arrested and put into detention at the...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
Attacking the High Court judges
But this Court is not a Parliament of policy; it is a court of law. Judicial method is not concerned with the...
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906Coroner & Legal
Why David Hicks must win
No, this is not about winning a literary competition; this paper has nothing to say about that controversy – it has to...
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882Media
Lies, promises and mandates
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott routinely denounces Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a liar. He does so with the tacit support, through failure...
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1.3KCartoons
In Australia the people are sovereign
The title of this paper is a recent statement of political principle by Tony Abbott, the Leader of the Opposition; it offers...
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889International
Opinions, values, journalism and David Hicks
In the final episode of Tony Jones’ Q and A for 2010, well-known journalist Janet Albrechtsen proclaimed a ‘fundamental belief’ that marriage...
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839History
The failure to think
This is an important article and a clear demonstration of the value of taking a fresh look at a subject which many...
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1.0KHealth
A short moral history of the Iraq war
Previous papers sought to clarify moral issues of the war in Afghanistan; this one looks at the Iraq War. For many people...
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915Politics
Assange: what it means to be a suspect
If you google ‘rape’ with ‘Assange,’ you get several million hits, which suggests the Wikileaks founder has reason to complain that the...
