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Comparing Whose Laws? Interrogating Biases in Comparative Law and Scholarship Through the Lens of Domestic Violence Workplace Leave

Vijeyarasa, R

This article invites comparative scholars to reflect on the biases that bury legislative good practice. These biases and their consequences are demonstrated throug...

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Proposing a Gender-Responsive Reform of the Australian 'Modern Slavery' Act

Vijeyarasa, R

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‘Those who make no effort deserve no consideration’: Ecofascism in David Ireland’s The World Repair Video Game

Heino, B

Ecofascism is an ideology that attempts to ground the fascist political project on a strongly ‘natural’ basis. Whilst still inchoate and not yet a mainstream political movement, it is an increasing...

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THE PRINCE OF THE ABROLHOS, 2020-2023:(On Micronations and Pseudolaw in Western Australia)

de Castro, VB Hobbs, H

This article examines the Houtman Abrolhos Micro Nation, established by Kristin MacDonald, a Western Australian man, in 2020. The article draws on media reports and documents prepared by the ‘princ...

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TAKING STOCK OF INDIGENOUS-STATE TREATY-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Hobbs, H

Author Harry Hobbs Aspirations for an Indigenous treaty or treaties in Australia must confront a challenging landscape. How can we retrofit a substantive treaty-making process on a legal and poli...

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Rings of power: a legal history of the engagement ring in early twentieth-century Australia

Simmonds, A

This article explores the gendered regulation of courtship by providing a legal history of the engagement ring across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing the relationship between love,...

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Predicting repeat consumer bankruptcy: A survival analysis of business-related repeat filings in Australia 2007-2021

Robinson, C Smith, D McBride, I Rice, A McCosker, G Wicht, M Robinson, C

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Lines of Exchange: Australian and New Zealand Women on Carnegie and Fulbright Programme Awards c. 1930s–1980s

Fitzgerald, T Kirkby, D Jordan, C

Narratives of international educational exchange programmes such as the US–sponsored Fulbright and the Commonwealth–centred Carnegie grants reveal the formative role these exchanges played in exten...

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Brighton v RSPCA NSW: Appeals and Lessons Four Years On

Riley, S Jurd, K

Animal law has the potential to initiate improvements for animal wellbeing. However, this largely depends on how effectively the law bridges the legal chasm between animal welfare and animal suffer...

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Attitudes towards the regulation and provision of abortion among healthcare professionals in Britain: cross-sectional survey data from the SACHA Study.

Wellings, K Scott, RH Sheldon, S McCarthy, O Palmer, MJ Shawe, J Meiksin, R Lewandowska, M Cameron, ST Reiter, J French, RS SACHA Study Team, SACHA study team,

OBJECTIVES: To gather views of healthcare professionals on the regulation and provision of abortion in Britain. METHODS: Cross-sectional, stratified cluster sample survey of healthcare professional...

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