November 2022
Why what we read should be up to us
I don’t want the government telling me what books I can or cannot sell; and I hope I won’t be cowed by zealots.
July 2022
Silks call for body to run civil cases for sex assault victims
Geoffrey Robertson says sexual assault survivors should seek civil penalties from their alleged perpetrators given the lower burden of proof in such cases.
Why barrister Geoffrey Robertson feels hopeful (not hypothetically)
Back in Australia after the pandemic lockout, the human rights lawyer and host of Hypotheticals is taking his unique brand of critical thinking on the road.
June 2021
Michael Kirby v Geoffrey Robertson on the dismissal and the republic
After the release of the Palace Papers failed to settle lingering questions over the Queen’s role in the Whitlam government’s dismissal, two famous lawyers keep the debate raging.
May 2020
'Join the club': Amal Clooney's personal appeal to Australia
The growing push for an Australian Magnitsky Act has a powerful new champion in the form of human rights campaigner Amal Clooney.
January 2020
Should museums hand back plundered art?
What solutions are there to the inflammatory political problem of cultural "restitution"?