Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
Human rights legislation is a normal part of living in a modern democratic country, but Australia still doesn’t have a legal framework that supports everyone living here.
Many countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty flout their international obligation to limit it to only the most serious crimes.
The large-scale protests across Iran are a culmination of everything that’s gone wrong with the country since the 1979 revolution.
The bill exposes the culture war within Australia’s biggest religious groups, and runs into constitutional problems.
The current draft still includes a range of provisions overriding federal, state and territory laws to allow for discrimination.
At this time, we need to accept that a powerful healing influence can only be launched when a society knows and acknowledges all episodes of its history.
Why language needs to be handled with care.
A new institute is leading the push to eliminate the 'faulty' justice of the death penalty.
Most Australians believe in values such as fairness and equality – but these can be harder to act on than you would think.
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