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Category: Gender

‘Black fellow’ tag costs man his job

5 December 2011 5 December 2011

A man says he has been summarily dismissed, without a hearing, for describing a fellow worker as a ‘black fellow’. Conflicting rights are always difficult to resolve – what do you think?
‘Black fellow’ tag costs man his job
I worked in quite a big fac…

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God didn’t say what type of ‘another’

4 December 2011 4 December 2011

Why does our PM do something as stupid as putting the gay marriage issue to a conscience vote? We all know how she feels about the subject…and she’s up a tree.

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Presumed innocent goes up in smoke

27 October 2011 27 October 2011

CLA is concerned at the creeping trend throughout Australia to make more offences subject to “strict liability”. That is government lawyer speak: it means that, under these new types of laws, you have to prove you are innocent rather than the government…

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Chief Justice says Aborigines are
discriminated against in law

11 June 2011 11 June 2011

The Chief Justice of the NT, Trevor Riley, has told a high-powered audience at the ceremonial 100th opening of the NT Supreme Court that Aborigines are discriminated against in Commonwealth law. This statement directly contradicts what the Australia…

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Art well rated by Classy Board

29 April 2011 29 April 2011

Art well rated by Classy Board

Since Melinda Tankard Reist clearly trusts the judgement of the Classification Board (Canberra Times, Anti-exploitation campaigners urge ratings classification for art, 28 April 2011), she should be aware that the Henso…

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Suffer the little children…

20 April 2011 20 April 2011

The Human Rights Commissioner’s 2004 report paved the way for release of refugee children from detention. We’ve regressed: now more than 900 kids are behind bars and razor wire. It’s time for some moral leadership from the top, writes the author of that…

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National DNA law needed: academics

22 March 2011 26 January 2021

Gradually, every Australian’s DNA is aggregating through heel pricks into a national database. But no cohesive laws or firm guidelines govern use of this or other personal DNA data, which is controlled by a “spaghetti junction” of rules. Academics Diana…

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Innocent one day, blameless the next

21 March 2011 21 March 2011

No-one in the Queensland Police made any mistake whatsover in connection with the death in a cell on Palm Island of Mulrunji Doomadgee, or in the years of investigations and coronial inquests and court cases which followed. Oh to be a Queensland police…

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Making prison(er)s work better

13 March 2011 13 March 2011

Restorative justice aims to help victims of crime, turn prisoners into contributors, make prisons better for everyone, and send convicted criminals back into the community to NOT re-offend. Why isn’t it in use everywhere? Brian Steels explains how it wo…

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Women do it even tougher in jail

22 February 2011 22 February 2011

Even in special prisons for women, prison authorities always think of them second…or last. Because of that pervasive attitude, women do it very tough. In fighting for individual rights that male prisoners don’t need to fight for, the women run the ris…

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