Social Justice
Canada tends to be a bit of a role model to Australia when it comes to indigenous issues – yesterday...
The Little Children Are Sacred report came out in the middle of this year. It was a comprehensive look at...
The Law
Greens senator Kerry Nettle is claiming that immigration laws are stopping sailors from doing what sailors have always done as...
Yesterday on the Wire we heard human rights lawyer Julian Burnside talking about his own personal journey from ordinary lawyer...
Well known Melbourne QC Julian Burnside wasn’t always an outspoken champion of human rights. In his new book “Watching Brief...
Lisa French Blaker spent six unforgettable months working with medecin Sans Frontieres in Darfur. Darfur is a desperate place, where...
Communications & Culture
Steve Vizard once had Australia in the palm of his hand – comedian, enormously popular television host , the charming...
Very few rape cases get to court, and of those few result in the offender going to gaol. It’s always...
Andrew Fraser had a thirty year career as a high profile criminal lawyer defending such notorious underworld figures as Lewis...
Health
Greens leader Bob Brown launched the party’s policy against TV junk food advertising to children in Adelaide this afternoon.
