Professor Beth Gaze

Co-Director of Studies, Employment and Labour Relations Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

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Overturning history

This month could see the US Supreme Court overturn the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent which gave American women control over their fertility, bodies and lives

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Politics & Society

Protecting staff at parliament house

We should expect Australia’s Parliament to comply with their own workplace health, safety and anti-discrimination laws when it comes to protecting the people who work there

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Politics & Society

COVID-19, age discrimination and aged care

From hospitals refusing to admit aged care COVID-19 patients, to government recommendations that care homes provide coronavirus treatment – it goes against age discrimination laws

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Keeping sexual harassment complaints confidential

The Geoffrey Rush defamation trial failed to place scrutiny on the Sydney Theatre Company’s role in leaking the sexual harassment complaint and their inability to handle it in sensitive and confidential way

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Politics & Society

White supremacist terrorism, technology and the law

The Christchurch attacks show us that technology, the social environment and the law must work together to protect community harmony and freedom of expression

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Politics & Society

Blurred lines: Your employer, Twitter and the law

Angela Williamson’s sacking from Cricket Australia, over alleged political opinions shared on social media, demonstrates the need for clearer laws

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Politics & Society

Coalface tactics

Conservation and environmental groups are using the courts to fight and frustrate the mining industry in an act the Government calls ‘lawfare’