The Law

The Australian newspaper may have broken the law by printing details of a counter-terrorism investigation just hours before a dramatic...

Long term listeners to The Wire may remember almost a year and a half ago, when we reported on anti-smacking...

The debate over same-sex marriage is heating up again as gay activists continue to fight for their right to love...

The New South Wales Government is cracking down on graffiti artists. There will be harsher penalties for graffiti offenders and...

A series of violent attacks, especially the murder of four young children by their mother in the Western Highlands of...

The productivity commission announced today that Australia’s current territorial copyright laws should be repealed. In a move set to change...

A forum in Sydney today has recommended that the Government introduce specific laws to deal with forced labour.  

Civil liberties have taken another blow in the Northern Territory. The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the Australian...

Gender inequality in traditional interpretations of Islam is widely documented and it’s a problem which is deeply rooted in Islamic...

Greens senator Scott Ludlam wants the Government to remove the most draconian of the Howard-era anti terror laws. He introduced...