By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, The University of Queensland The government introduced its third set of national security laws last week. The Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment Bill (No 1) 2014 valuably empowers the Parliamentary Joint Committee of Intelligence and...
This case note is about Tajjour v New South Wales; Hawthorne v New South Wales; Forster v New South Wales [2014] HCA 35, read the full judgement or the judgement summary. In its latest decision on the status of common law rights in Australian law on 8 October...
The case of Kable raised constitutional questions in which the High Court had to consider whether the Community Protection Act 1994 (NSW) required a court to exercise non-judicial power in breach of the doctrine of separation of powers. The High Court also had...
The Rule of Law Institute of Australia (RoLIA) has produced an education resource for secondary students in Queensland to help them understand the laws passed to deal with organised crime in Queensland. The booklet explains aspects of the following issues: The VLAD...
