Should a jury be stacked to represent racial groups, women, and the indigent – but not the disabled, the sick or the neurologically diverse? Who chooses? Should some groups not be represented, and if so, why?
Elle Macpherson is entitled to make any choice she likes when it comes to her body. But what makes her foray into the media so vulgar is that her revelations are about making money – and putting lives at risk.
To their great credit, both the RBA chief and Productivity Commission tzar have been prepared to be ungrateful to their Labor appointors – and loyal to the country – by being independent of the government that appointed them.
As experiments in Canada and the US show, drugs harm minimisation has nasty side effects.
If the public flogging of Robert Newlinds leads other judges to shut up, we will be none the wiser about injustices happening under our noses.
There was a time when the Yes campaign infuriated me. Now it just bores me. Let’s hope it reaches the final stage of grief – acceptance – soon.
Sharaz could have been cross-examined on his role in ramping up Brittany Higgins’s claims into political pandemonium. Yet he’s avoiding the legal spotlight.
Brittany Higgins’ lawyer cites three reasons the ex-Liberal staffer won’t take the stand to defend herself against Linda Reynolds – but there’s a fourth she’s unlikely to say publicly.
There are many things I would like to tell you about the Linda Reynolds v Brittany Higgins defamation battle. But the West Australian Supreme Court won’t allow it. Not yet.
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These questions concern two possible deceptions – one on the public at large, the other on private citizens – that have long been the subject of speculation.
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