Parliamentarians have a long history of using parliamentary privilege to say whatever they desire, writes Crikey intern Esther Ooi.
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Up close and personal with Margaret Andrews
Author Benjamin Law is all for public debate. He’s all for feisty discussion. But the bizarre confrontation in the queue for a book signing with Margaret Andrews, wife of government minister Kevin Andrews, at this week’s national conference for Family Relationships Services Australia took the cake.
Human rights: why we need a charter
Emotional, fear-mongering and ill-informed comments about a human rights charter do not make for robust, reasoned, logical debate, writes Mark Blumer.
An infuriated Justice Kirby’s last day in court
Is it any wonder that Michael Kirby should excoriate the conservatism of his colleagues as he did yesterday in the NT Intervention case? Asks Greg Barns.
The High Court: conservatives rule, OK?
Thomas v Mowbray, the High Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the Howard government’s anti-terror laws, will be remembered by historians and legal scholars for two things: that this was one of the most conservative judgments in the Court’s one hundred and four year history, and that Justice Michael Kirby’s full blooded dissent will be forever remembered as one of the great Australian cries for liberty.
Justice Michael Kirby, ‘a loving man’
What is Justice Kirby reading? What does he fantasise about? All the answers in this frank interview.
