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National Affairs
Judging Kathleen Folbigg
Jeremy Gans
15 November 2023
A High Court decision has added to concerns about jury behaviour that were passed over by a series of appeal judges
Books & Arts
This house of Grieve
Jeremy Gans
7 November 2023
A murder case looked different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
Books & Arts
Active and ongoing
Alecia Simmonds
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s
Consent Laid Bare
part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & Arts
On the morality of imprisonment
Maggie Hall
26 July 2023
A philosopher considers the case for abolishing prisons
International
The Netflix series changing Taiwanese politics
Antonia Finnane
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
Essays & Reportage
Scott’s justice
Jeremy Gans
16 June 2023
Thirty-five years and five judgements after Scott Johnson’s body was found, can we be sure justice has been served?
Essays & Reportage
Playing in the grey
Ryan Cropp
24 February 2023
A sociologist ventures into a largely hidden financial system beyond the reach of governments and regulators
Essays & Reportage
Twelve vexed Canberrans
Jeremy Gans
21 November 2022
What did we learn about juries from the abrupt conclusion to last month’s trial of a ministerial staffer?
Essays & Reportage
Hot, wild heart
Eleanor Hogan
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
International
Last call for China’s drinking culture?
Linda Jaivin
28 October 2021
China is waking up to the downside of its world-beating level of alcohol consumption
National Affairs
The elephants in the courtroom
Jeremy Gans
10 September 2021
The justice system’s dealings with the police officer accused of killing Kumanjayi Walker are shadowed by cases past
From the archive
The premier, the crime boss and the ABC
Margaret Simons
2 September 2021
Renewed allegations of corruption in 1980s New South Wales have reawakened strong feelings
Essays & Reportage
Was Neville Wran corrupt?
Rodney Tiffen
31 August 2021
The former NSW premier’s time in office was dogged by allegations, but do they stand up?
National Affairs
Can Crown go down?
Charles Livingstone
22 July 2021
Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company
National Affairs
Shadow pandemic
Paul McGorrery and Marilyn McMahon
2 July 2021
Proposed NSW legisation focuses a new lens on domestic abuse
National Affairs
A certain class of consent
Alecia Simmonds
18 June 2021
Is a concept drawn from contract law the best test of sexual assault?
National Affairs
Dr X meets his end
Frank Bongiorno
12 June 2021
Buying the Sydney Swans bolstered the swashbuckling 1980s image of medical entrepreneur Geoffrey Edelsten, who died this week
From the archive
Finding the Moree way
Robert Milliken
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
National Affairs
Immunity in the dock
James Panichi
10 June 2021
Australia’s criminal cartel law has hit its first speed hump
Essays & Reportage
The insiders
Jeremy Gans
7 June 2021
A new podcast brilliantly tracks Australia’s “biggest insider trading case.” But does it let the authorities off too lightly?
National Affairs
The arc of justice
Margaret Simons
24 April 2021
Journalism has a different role to play from the legal system. It begins with reporting the facts as the journalist understands them
Essays & Reportage
Was Bob Askin corrupt?
Mike Steketee
9 April 2021
With a new book reopening the debate about the one-time NSW premier’s behaviour in office, our correspondent assesses the evidence
Essays & Reportage
Christian Porter’s shadow
Jeremy Gans
19 March 2021
There’s only one good way to resolve decades-old allegations like the ones made against the attorney-general
National Affairs
Then and now
Sara Dowse
17 March 2021
A half-century’s perspective on this week’s protests
From the archive
Held captive by cold war politics
Hamish McDonald
5 March 2021
More than forty years later, lawyers are using evidence of an ASIO cover-up to clear the names of the Croatian Six
National Affairs
Where have all the criminals gone?
Adam Triggs
1 February 2021
Crime has plummeted in Australia, and new research suggests some surprising causes
Essays & Reportage
After the battle
Nicholas Stuart
28 November 2020
The revelations about the Special Forces challenge one of Australia’s great foundational myths
National Affairs
Follow the money
Helen Bird
5 November 2020
Business figures are taking advantage of ASIC’s internal troubles to undermine reforms recommended by the banking royal commission
Essays & Reportage
When the personal became political
Michelle Arrow
6 October 2020
The seventies were a decade of extraordinary social upheaval, writes the presenter of this year’s Ernest Scott Lecture
Books & Arts
Scales of justice
Rick Sarre
21 September 2020
Books
| Lawyer Andrew Boe’s heartfelt memoir of a life in the law
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