When Sall Grover’s online platform was flooded with trans activists, she asked herself this question: as profoundly fraught as the trans issue is, why should women’s rights come second?
The decision last week in the Federal Court concerning climate change in the Torres Strait was surely the high-water mark for wasting court time.
The great aim of the Australian legal profession is now too often to use the law to win political victories it could never win at an election.
It’s a mad, mad world. In an upcoming court case we are forced to ask, almost a century after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, why can’t women have an online room of their own to express themselves freely?
Judges have criticised prosecutors for running prosecutions with no reasonable prospect of success, causing untold damage to both complainants and defendants.
It’s a simple truth: the Yoorrook report fails to address basic needs of Indigenous children, but makes outlandish demands in serving the interests of the adults who drove it.
If the Left can’t point to an emoting female leader who won a few elections in a row, why would the conservatives think one will work for them?
The problem of token political statements goes deeper than even Melbourne’s most left-wing council, with naughty children now being asked to share in an acknowledgment of country.
The Liberal Party officials who inked a $1.55m deal to save John Pesutto from bankruptcy have unleashed a whole new chapter of dysfunction.
If Labor lied about what it was saying publicly about new taxes in 2022, what is it planning behind closed doors in 2025 that it won’t tell us about?
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