Law

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Politics & Society

International court to decide if we have a ‘right to strike’

Employers are challenging the legal principle on which the ‘right to strike’ is based in the International Court of Justice. The outcome could change labour laws around the world

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Sciences & Technology

Ethics, privacy and the perils of 'deepfake geography'

Geospatial AI could transform healthcare and disaster management, but we need comprehensive guidelines and laws to mitigate misinformation and safeguard users

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Politics & Society

Australia’s pawnbrokers are too lightly regulated and that’s a problem

In Australia, pawnbrokers are largely exempt from national consumer credit laws and it’s leaving often-desperate people exposed to acute risks

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Politics & Society

Who stewards the forests?

What happens to the biodiversity and communities whose lives depend on a piece of land when that land is acquired? A new book explores the limitations of environmental law in India

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Politics & Society

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Opinion

What the Bondi Junction tragedy tells us about compulsory treatment

How should we balance public safety with the rights of people with a mental illness to make decisions about their own wellbeing?

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Politics & Society

When AI gets it wrong, workers suffer

AI can be just as discriminatory in the workplace as any human manager and the law needs to catch up to this new reality

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Politics & Society

The legacy of aqua nullius is causing a sustainability disaster

Australia’s rivers and freshwater ecosystems are in trouble – a result of the false claim that water belonged to no one when the British invaded Australia

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Education

Talking to young people about the Voice

Explaining a referendum on constitutional law to young people can seem a tall order, but they already have a good knowledge of the world around them

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Health & Medicine

It’s time to ban corporal punishment of kids in Australia

Children have the right to be safe from violence inside and outside the home – and Australia’s corporal punishment of children legislation needs to catch up

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Politics & Society

Quantifying an Australian crisis: Black deaths in custody

Official statistics recorded 106 deaths in custody last year, but on the 32nd anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, more care is needed interpreting this data

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