The recent Four Corners story on youth detention in the Northern Territory has sparked interest in and concern about the issue. This media mash-up will review relevant legislation and media articles about youth detention around Australia. The issue of youth detention...
Henry Bournes Higgins would have turned 165 today. He was one of Australia’s most influential political figures around Federation. He was a delegate at the Constitutional Conventions, served in the Victorian and Federal Parliaments, and became a Justice of the...
The Balance between Robust Constitutionalism and the Democratic Process A public lecture by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke of the Republic of South Africa Hosted by the Rule of Law Institute of Australia, UNSW Law, and the Gilbert + Tobin Centre for Public Law....
Sir Owen Dixon, the sixth Chief Justice of the High Court, was born 130 years today — on 28 April 1886 — in Hawthorn, Melbourne. He was widely lauded, both during his judicial career and afterwards, as Australia’s greatest judge, and indeed one of...
The recent passing of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has brought widespread tributes to the conservative judge, who was the first Italian-American appointed to the Court, and has sparked intense interest in his possible successor. This article will review the...
