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Robert French, former Chief Justice of Australia, during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra

Former chief justice backs Voice, dismisses fears of legal disputes

Former chief justice Robert French has rejected key claims made by the campaign opposing the Voice to parliament and warned about an increasing polarisation.

  • David Crowe

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Former Hong Kong Legislator Ted Hui was admitted as a barrister and solicitor at South Australia’s Supreme Court.

‘Sharpening my sword’: One of Hong Kong’s most-wanted can now practise law in Australia

Ted Hui, a Hongkonger who fled to Australia via London in 2021, says he is now waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to fall.

  • Latika Bourke
Andrew Hastie.

Coalition MPs under fire over misquoting former High Court judges on Voice

MPs including Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor have been asked to apologise for misrepresenting the words of two judges to undermine an enshrined Indigenous Voice.

  • Jack Latimore
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‘Too silly for words’: Experts reject claims Voice will trigger deluge of legal action

Two former High Court judges were among those who gave evidence supporting the Voice at a parliamentary inquiry into the referendum on Friday.

  • Lisa Visentin and Paul Sakkal
All three Australian judges on Hong Kong’s court, Robert French, Murray Gleeson and William Gummow, are former High Court judges.

Australians to stay on Hong Kong court after British judges resign

Three of Australia’s most senior judges will remain on Hong Kong’s top court after Britain pulled out its judges in response to Beijing’s national security laws.

  • Eryk Bagshaw
Robert French.

French tells us what he really thinks on a republic

Former chief justice of the High Court Robert French is about to reinvigorate the moribund republican debate.

  • Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Bernard Collaery leaving the ACT Magistrate’s Court during one of the hearings.

Australia only digging deeper hole by pursuing East Timor spying case

The Bernard Collaery bugging case should at the very least be heard in open court, if not, abandoned all together.

  • Gareth Evans
The Great Barrier Reef and, inset, Dr Peter Ridd.

How a fight about the Great Barrier Reef has become a free speech test

A former university professor says some of his colleagues’ work was “rubbish”. He argues he had every right to say that.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Sacked James Cook University professor Peter Ridd may have been protected by legal definition of academic freedom.

Academic freedom definition would have protected sacked JCU professor

Peter Ridd, a critic of the consensus on climate change, wouldn't have been sacked with a proposed legal definition of academic freedom, Dan Tehan says.

  • Lisa Visentin
Pauline Hanson is pushing to insert a definition of academic freedom into the Higher Education Support Act.

'Unnecessary': Universities reject One Nation push to legislate academic freedom

The University of Melbourne and Western Sydney University were among those to reject the plan.

  • Lisa Visentin

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