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CFMEU administrator Mark Irving, KC, in his chambers.

High Court appeal ‘stymying’ push to weed out CFMEU corruption

Administrator Mark Irving has found addressing corruption in the shadow of an unresolved High Court challenge has “impeded the prompt implementation” of reforms.

  • Olivia Ireland

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Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke announced the deal on Sunday.

Murderer among former detainees to be shifted to Nauru

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the Pacific island nation has approached Australia to take three violent criminal members of a group of former immigration detainees.

  • Paul Sakkal
Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta.

All judges immune from lawsuits, High Court rules, sparing Vasta

Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta had been held personally liable for wrongly jailing a man during a divorce case.

  • Abe Maddison
As part of the proposed changes, prisoners – who can be more at risk of discrimination – would be given a faster and more flexible complaints process.

Double-murderer in High Court bid to overturn ‘no body, no parole’ laws

Several state governments have joined forces to defend the laws, which prevent killers from parole until they reveal the location of their victim’s remains. 

  • Cloe Read
St Alipius Presbytary and church in Ballarat where ribbons are tied to the fence to symbolise the abuse of catholic priests.

Nation’s top lawmakers to meet after Catholic Church found not liable for clerical abuse

Attorneys-general offices will consider urgent legislative reform after a High Court decision that cleared the Catholic Church of paying damages over the abuse of a five-year-old boy.

  • Cameron Houston
The High Court of Australia revealed the judgment on Wednesday.

Unfairly sacked workers can claim damages for psychiatric injury after High Court ruling

In a 6-1 verdict, Vision Australia was ordered to pay $1.4 million to Adam Elisha as the High Court overturned a 115-year-old legal precedent.

  • Lachlan Abbott
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A rally protesting CFMEU administration, at the front of Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 10 December 2024.

Union opens door to shifting donations from Labor to Greens

The bitter split within the union movement over the CFMEU being placed into administration came to Parliament House and the High Court on Tuesday.

  • James Massola
Julia Gillard, flanked by Nicola Roxon and Jenny Macklin, announce the commissioners for the royal commission into child sexual abuse in January 2013.

Gillard urges states to act after ‘deeply concerning’ ruling that Catholic Church is not liable in abuse case

The former Australian prime minister has spoken out after legal experts said the High Court decision could cast doubts over cases against religious orders nationwide.

  • Tony Wright

‘Free pass for sexually abusive clerics’: Catholic Church not liable, High Court rules

Attorneys general are being urged to push through new laws after the High Court found religious orders did not have vicarious liability for sexual abuse committed by their clerics.

  • Cameron Houston and Holly Hales
The government has dumped the immigration detention centre contract with Serco.

Australia quietly ditches $4.6b detention contract with scandal-plagued Serco

The British multinational will no longer run immigration detention centres, ending a partnership that has been riddled with claims of violence, drug trade, neglect and understaffing.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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