Mega-claims don’t have a happy history in Australian courts. Ask Kerry Stokes. Ask John Maconochie, writes Michael Pascoe.
Breach
Kyoto ratification not without its headaches for Rudd
One of the new government’s first priorities when it is sworn in later this week will be ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This simple act may create the first set of headaches for the new government, writes international law professor, Donald R. Rothwell.
Maningrida: watching the intervention roll in
The two key members of the government’s intervention into indigenous communities, Dr Sue Gordon and Major General Dave Chalmers, flew into the top end fulcrum of Maningrida yesterday to begin a two-day survey into what shape the intervention would take in the community. Maningrida resident Hamish Townsend reports.
