Michael Bradley
Managing partner at Marque Lawyers @marquelawyers
Michael Bradley is a freelance writer and managing partner at Sydney firm Marque Lawyers.
The criticisms against Liu straddle genuine concerns about influence and mundane xenophobia, but there's a bigger section 44 question here.
Every other Australian state has decriminalised abortion; shouldn't this have been simple? Progress, unfortunately, always comes with a price.
Dr Chau Chak Wing's defamation case against the ABC's Four Corners highlights the inadequacies of Australia's defamation laws.
What’s the deal with this bill? Is it a Christians-only thing? Crikey answers these questions and more.
After George Pell, high-profile people have signed out from the police, the courts, the jury system, the burden of proof and the entire rule of law. Welcome to the new abnormal.
Anyone attacking the trial verdict, attacking the appeal decision, or ignoring the facts is recklessly undermining the rule of law. There can be no place for it.
Our bullshit implied freedom of speech is a leaky band-aid over the hole where our actual human rights should be.
Suicide is still against the law in many countries. How did it come to be considered a crime in the first place?
In terms of justice, truth, morality or social relevance, Shayna Jack's controversy contributes nothing at all.
Rob a servo and you go to jail. Underpay your workers to the tune of nearly $8 million and you get a slap on a wrist. How is that fair?
