March 2023
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
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
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
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.