One year has passed since the Federal Court confirmed native title over more than 40,000 square kilometres of sea country in the Torres Strait region. For the first time the claim brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to achieve joint
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One year has passed since the Federal Court confirmed native title over more than 40,000 square kilometres of sea country in the Torres Strait region. For the first time the claim brought together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to achieve joint
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We’ve all heard of ‘sovereign citizens’, a term referring to people who don’t believe the law applies to them. But how much do we know about this group and its impact on the courts? This episode first aired in May 2023. Read
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Federal court fines company $15m and orders it to pay up to $15m in compensation for making false or misleading claims to about 70,000 customers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or
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Report also calls for spit hoods to be banned and strip searches to be limited after UN visit last year Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The
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Commission accuses social media platform of failing to provide information about how it is tackling online child sexual exploitation material Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The Australian eSafety commissioner has launched legal action against
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David Hutchinson misapplied company funds ‘rather audaciously for his own benefit and for the benefit of his relatives’, court finds Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcast Money from
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Federal court judge deems amount awarded to children imprisoned for people smuggling offences as ‘fair and reasonable’ The federal court has ruled that $27.5m in compensation for Indonesian children falsely imprisoned as adult people smugglers in Australia is “fair and reasonable”. The
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Judge concludes case and reserves his decision after more than four weeks of evidence Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers have argued on the final day of his high-profile defamation trial that Brittany Higgins told “complete falsehoods” and her allegations were part of a “political
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