Law & Crime

It doesn’t come much more Morrisonian than that. The Refugee Convention is a tool to get people drowned at sea.

Australians might be finally showing interest in the stories of refugees, but only those we’ve chosen to welcome.

Philip Nitschke’s pointless medical suspension serves only to obfuscate the issues surrounding voluntary assisted dying.

The image of Australian bodies loaded into an industrial train in Eastern Europe forces us to confront questions about what kind of power we want to be.

It is hard to fault ASIC for charging Moylan. At least, it would be if ASIC had demonstrated similar enthusiasm for smashing the fraudsters at CBA.

The Newman government’s moves to control the Crime and Misconduct Commission threaten a return to pre-Fitzgerald days.

Tim Carmody will be sworn in next week as chief justice of Queensland. The ceremony will be conducted privately in chambers, to save any embarrassment of hardly anyone turning up.

The rule of history remains the same: what matters is not the terrorist outrage but the response.

By linking federal funding to silence on law reform, the attorney-general is turning his back on community feedback.

If a crisis as profound and inexplicable as family violence doesn’t deserve the rigour and the review of a royal commission, then what on earth does?