Law & Politics
A tribute to the ‘indefatigable’ Rodney Syme
Nick Carr
28/11/2021
This is an edited version of the tribute to Rodney Syme delivered during the RSA Webinar on 24 November 2021. ...
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New Religious Discrimination Bill will cause damage to Australian society that will be difficult to heal
Elenie Poulos
25/11/2021
Australia is not a particularly religious country. Australians have a reputation for being largely ambivalent about the place of religion ...
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Third time lucky for the Religious Discrimination Bill?
Luke Beck
24/11/2021
The Morrison government has finally provided details of the third draft of its Religious Discrimination Bill. This prompted heated discussion ...
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Conscientious objection in Australia: A comparison between VAD and abortion
Ronli Sifris
20/11/2021
Conscientious objection is defined, according to Peter Butt, as "an objection to partaking in certain forms of behaviour … on ...
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Rodney’s final stand on voluntary assisted dying
Si Gladman
17/11/2021
Even in his final months of life, Dr Rodney Syme was doing all he could to help make voluntary assisted ...
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In defence of democracy
Carrick Ryan
11/11/2021
In 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled, historian Francis Fukuyama now infamously proclaimed “the end of history”. His reasoning was ...
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Farewelling a true hero in Rodney Syme
Meredith Doig
23/10/2021
In the days before Rodney Syme passed away, his family asked if I would like to send a video message ...
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It’s a generational thing: Should agreements and legislation have a use-by date?
Ian Bryce
04/06/2021
In this paper, I propose a new approach to the tenure of agreements, which could have had the potential to ...
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