October 2023
- Exclusive
- Voice to parliament
Seems nothing can melt No-vote hearts: Pearson
Leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson urges supporters to maintain hope but says Saturday’s referendum appears lost and Australia was a “hard country now”.
- Maxim Shanahan and Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Depressed by the Voice debate? No wonder
This referendum is set to become another ugly chapter in Australian history, thanks to our politicians’ hypocrisy and opportunism.
- Laura Tingle
Ex-chief justice lashes ‘resentful’ No campaign
Robert French says the No campaign’s strategy invites Australians to “a resentful, uninquiring passivity”.
- Michael Pelly
August 2023
Lawyers have said enough on Voice: leading silk Bret Walker
Top barrister Bret Walker has decried the “excessive” emphasis on legal concerns about the Indigenous Voice, saying lawyers had too much of a role in the debate.
- Michael Pelly
February 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
The Voice case has answered the arguments for voting ‘No’
The Voice amendment provides a foundation for a living and evolving practice of shared authority. If only we can be patient.
- Gabrielle Appleby and Ron Levy
Former chief justice dismisses threat of ‘judicial activism’ to Voice
Former High Court chief justice Robert French has rejected talk that “activist judges” could expand the power of the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
- Michael Pelly
No scope for Voice litigation: ex chief justice
Former High Court chief justice Robert French says there “is little or no scope for constitutional litigation” on the Voice.
- Michael Pelly
July 2022
Ex-High Court chief justice backs ‘sensible’ Voice
Former High Court chief justice Robert French has backed the draft changes to the Constitution that establish the Indigenous Voice to parliament, calling it a “sensible and straightforward proposal”.
- Michael Pelly
October 2020
Hong Kong bar pleads with foreign judges to keep serving
Pressure is building on UK judges after Beijing imposed a security law on the territory.
- Primrose Riordan, Nicolle Liu and Jane Croft
July 2020
Porter kicks off search for next High Court judge
The Attorney-General casts a net for the next High Court judge, lawyers behaving badly and a QC's plea to the PM. It's all Hearsay.
- Michael Pelly
June 2020
Women must feel safe enough to call out harassment: PM
Scott Morrison has expressed fears for his own two daughters as he condemned the alleged sexual harassment scandal in the High Court.
- Phillip Coorey and Ronald Mizen
February 2020
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
Judge warns of tide of climate cases
Once Australia's most senior judge, Robert French says Australia is in the realm of "a frightening new bushfire paradigm" and predicts an increase in landmark legal cases, as seen overseas.
- Tom McIlroy