March 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
We are back to the beginning with the Voice
The wording of the referendum question takes us back to 2014 - and using political influence rather than litigation to achieve better outcomes.
September 2022
The magic of a monarch who made her power seem invisible
If the records from Windsor Castle are eventually opened, we will likely see a Queen who was more politically engaged and interventionist than the public ever imagined.
August 2022
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Morrison’s ministerial mess needed cleaning up not covering up
Making appointments public is not a legal requirement. But it seems timely to revisit this and to formalise the requirement for transparency.
February 2022
What happens if the Queen is incapacitated
A reading of the rules of royal succession reveal that if the Queen becomes incapacitated, Australia will be without a monarch, and Camilla will never be Queen of Australia.
January 2022
Character assassination in new letters from governors-general to Queen
From bumptious hussies to seditious libel, the newly opened vaults of the Nation Archive reveal the true feelings of Australian governors-general in their correspondence with the palace.
August 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
WA has won a battle but it has yet to win the border war
The High Court will take a much broader view of Clive Palmer's challenge to WA's closed borders than the Federal Court did.
January 2020
- Opinion
- Law
Why McKenzie's sports rorts defence is wrong
There seem to be at least three areas in which rules are likely to have been broken in the latest sports-rorts affair, writes Anne Twomey.