Extended producer responsibility, or EPR, is an environmental policy approach in which a producer's responsibility, physical and/or financial, for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product's life cycle. In the paper Stewart Smith canvasses the application of EPR, including container deposit legislation, in efforts to reduce the volume of waste disposal...

Lenny Roth surveys the main legal restrictions on children and forms of discrimination against children. He discusses the rights of children at school and in consenting to medical treatment, looks at parents' powers and the exclusion of children from shopping centres, and concludes by examining the human rights of children in NSW.

Talina Drabsch explores the possibilities of no fault compensation, where the entitlement to compensation is not linked to the ability to prove that a person's injuries were due to the fault of another. This report is partly a response to the discussion that followed the recent decision of the High Court to reinstate the award...

Rowena Johns summarises key events in the development of the jury system in New South Wales. She looks at the types of courts and cases that involves juries, and at current jury procedures, and provides an overview of current issues including the impact of prejudicial publicity on juries, the question of majority verdicts and the...

Australian governments engaged in a major reform program in the 1990s, culminating in the formation of the National Electricity Market (NEM) which commenced operation on 13 December 1998. Today, the NEM supplies electricity to 7.7 million Australian customers on an interconnected national grid that runs through Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria...