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Lowering the vote to 16 would force politicians to genuinely consider the needs of this ignored generation.

Whitlam gave 18-year-olds the vote. Now it’s time to lower it again

The UK has just announced it will lower the voting age to 16. What would happen if we followed suit?

  • Vivienne Skinner

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‘We need to find common ground’: Hugh de Kretser’s human rights challenge

As president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Hugh de Kretser walks a fine line. How can the organisation speak to all Australians?

  • James Button

The July 19 Edition

Hugh de Kretser’s human rights challenge | How a girl found love through online chess | Sigmund Freud’s great-granddaughters

Anthony Albanese meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday.

China and Xi give Albanese a warm welcome, but another side is never far away

The meeting between the two leaders was jovial as both smiled for the cameras. But several photographers were kept away, and other journalists had had a security incident earlier in the day.

  • Paul Sakkal
FILE - Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, right, other trial judges and lawyers view the reconstructed wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at the Gilze-Rijen military airbase, southern Netherlands, on May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

How Russia was responsible: Landmark court ruling on downing of MH17

The European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that Russia and its agents engaged in “manifestly unlawful” conduct in a missile attack that killed 298 passengers and crew.

  • David Crowe
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‘Grave robber’ posed for cameras as he pillaged human remains

The bi-nation expedition in 1948 was launched amid great fanfare but quickly turned toxic with secrets, scandals and the pillaging of Aboriginal burial sites, as revealed in this edited extract.

  • Martin Thomas
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Former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda spoke at the summit in Brisbane this week.

Why more than 100 leaders quietly met behind closed doors in Brisbane this week

Closed to media, the two-day gathering concluded with a public statement that called out “egregious breaches of human rights against children”.

  • Courtney Kruk
“My dad said, ‘What? You gave up permanent employment for a fixed-term contract?’ ”

He was made Australia’s race discrimination commissioner. But his dad had questions

Giridharan Sivaraman discusses leaving his job as an employment and human rights lawyer, where freedom of faith ends – and the secret to a happy marriage.

  • Benjamin Law
Cyclists at the corner of King and Clarence St in the CBD, where the King St cycleway disappears as you head east.

In Paddington, first-world problems begin with a bicycle

To frame your opposition to a Paddington cycleway as a human rights issue sets a new benchmark for entitlement, even for Sydney.

  • Sarah Macdonald
Michael Waterhouse and Kathryn Greiner, two of the six complainants, at a bus stop outside Waverley Bus Depot on Oxford Street in Bondi Junction.

Residents launch legal action over Oxford Street cycleway

The NSW government wants to build a new bike route between Taylor Square and Centennial Park, but a group of locals wants it diverted.

  • Megan Gorrey

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