Lawyers consider implications of patriarch’s testimony as they prepare to fight defamation suit brought by Lachlan Murdoch Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Lawyers for Crikey, which is being sued for defamation by Lachlan Murdoch,
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The US city of Seattle has banned caste-based discrimination and there are calls for Australia to legislate similar protections. And, the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal Borloz, is in Sydney to address the WorldPride Human Rights
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Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified and causing severe psychological distress, wife says Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Australian pilot Daniel Duggan’s conditions of detention are “extreme” and “inhumane”, a
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The state government announced this week it would override its own Human Rights Act and implement laws that make breaches of bail a criminal offence for children. With youth prisons full, there are fears the new laws will lead to an ‘explosion’
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Heide Victoria Bos sentenced to six years for orchestrating the 2021 assault on Nick Cameron in car park Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A supreme
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Legal groups also criticise the push to override the state’s Human Rights Act to create the offence Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Experts say there
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Scott McDougall alarmed at Palaszczuk government plan to make breach of bail an offence for children Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Queensland human rights
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Lawyer says the landmark case is about ‘correcting historical disadvantage’ embedded structurally in Aboriginal society Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Allowing an Indigenous Australian man
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‘Facial recognition for cows’, GPS animal tags and DNA testing represent some of the technology being developed to help investigate and solve livestock theft and other farm-related crimes. Read More Law Report – Full program podcast
Rwanda is the only other country to have had a visit cancelled, with Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner calling decision ‘disappointing’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
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