Raj, Senthorun This reflection explores how emotion shapes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights and law reforms. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the author maps how disgust regulates sexuality, hate manifests in hate crime penalties, anger arises in anti-discrimination measures, fear polices refugee law, anxiety…
Month: July 2020
Volume 45 Issue 2 – FRM17 decision allows offshore detainee cases to fight on in the Federal Court
Newhouse, George; Talbot, Anna; Dorostkar, Keyvan On 28 August 2019, the Full Federal Court of Australia handed down its decision in four test cases selected by the Court as representative of over 50 cases brought on behalf of asylum seekers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea against the Minister for Home Affairs (the test cases)….
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Let’s talk about tax, baby
Bulman, Anna This Brief introduces Picture Human Rights, an initiative which seeks to explain international human rights law concepts through illustration. The inaugural series for this initiative was tax and human rights, based on the author’s interpretations of editors Philip Alston and Nikki Reisch’s 2019 book, Tax, Human Rights, and Inequality. The Brief selects some…
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Legal Studies: A spectre haunting contract law
Corr, Robert In his article, ‘Testing the boundaries of the consideration doctrine: Can you contract to buy and sell a ghost?’, Mark Giancaspro surveys how the law has treated ghosts, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena. He gives particular attention to the trend of selling supposedly haunted objects via eBay and concludes that these contracts are…
Volume 45 Issue 2 – ‘Sit down Girlie!’: Girlie is working from home
Bugg, Corrina; Lation, Isa Marie Stopes Australia has published a report calling for urgent assistance from the federal, state and territory governments, professional associations and hospitals to support abortion access. Covid-19 travel restrictions and isolation requirements mean many doctors are unable to fly interstate. The report notes: ‘Doctors should be exempt from mandatory isolation providing…
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Government liability: Principles and remedies [Book Review]
Sapienza, Amanda Review(s) of: Government liability: Principles and remedies, by Janina Boughey, Ellen Rock and Greg Weeks, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2019, 532 pages, $128 LexisNexis Online or $160 booksellers (softcover). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=247501775849123;res=IELHSS
Volume 45 Issue 2 – The colonial fantasy: Why White Australia can’t solve black problems [Book Review]
Larkin, Dani Review(s) of: The colonial fantasy: Why White Australia can’t solve black problems, by Sarah Maddison, Allen and Unwin, 2019, 336 pages, $34.99 (paperback). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=247520408820381;res=IELHSS
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Gun control: What Australia got right (and wrong) [Book Review]
Adams, Samuel Diprose Review(s) of: Gun control: What Australia got right (and wrong), by Tom Frame, UNSW Press, 2019, 240 pages, $34.99 (paperback). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=247539041791639;res=IELHSS
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Rape law in context: Contesting the scales of injustice [Book Review]
Holder, Robyn Review(s) of: Rape law in context: Contesting the scales of injustice, by Simon Bronitt and Patricia Easteal, The Federation Press, 2018, 224 pages, $69.95 (paperback). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=247557674762897;res=IELHSS
Volume 45 Issue 2 – Compassion, the vulnerable and COVID-19
Stobbs, Nigel There is a popular myth that pathogens such as COVID-19 do not discriminate. Of course they do. Epidemiologists, caregivers and those working with vulnerable cohorts know from experience that the effects of severe illness are never homogenous across demographics. Those among us who are poor, indigent, elderly, incarcerated, Indigenous or disabled are dis-proportionally…