What message does it send when judges and lawyers lionise former High Court judge Dyson Heydon,who was found to have sexually harassed a number of associates and who drove women from the profession?
The last thing Australians want is the distraction of yet another ideologically inspired constitutional referendum.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his senior MPs have held high-level talks about a referendum on powers to strip citizenship for dual nationals who commit serious crimes.
The court’s ruling on Wednesday exposes the federal government to compensation claims over land in the Northern Territory.
Greg Barclay was sexually assaulted by a Marist brother in 1970,but his quest for compensation has been blocked by a controversial High Court judgment that found the Catholic Church was not legally responsible for the misconduct of its clerics.
Administrator Mark Irving has found addressing corruption in the shadow of an unresolved High Court challenge has “impeded the prompt implementation” of reforms.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the Pacific island nation has approached Australia to take three violent criminal members of a group of former immigration detainees.
Federal Circuit Court Judge Salvatore Vasta had been held personally liable for wrongly jailing a man during a divorce case.
Several state governments have joined forces to defend the laws,which prevent killers from parole until they reveal the location of their victim’s remains.
Attorneys-general offices will consider urgent legislative reform after a High Court decision that cleared the Catholic Church of paying damages over the abuse of a five-year-old boy.