Social justice is widely accepted as a normative goal in contemporary urban planning. Achieving this goal, however, is one of the major challenges for present cities and city planners.

In the years since NADRAC was established, ADR has expanded into a large, highly diverse and innovative field. Consumers, lawyers and other stakeholders have a greatly improved, though still imperfect, appreciation of the benefits of ADR. Many stakeholders expressed a welcome understanding of the value of ADR. However, it was also evident that while there...

Guidelines on banning customers from entering Centrelink offices because of inappropriate behaviour are the subject of this report. The Ombudsman has received complaints over a number of years from customers whose face-to-face contact with Centrelink staff has been withdrawn because of their behaviour. The report concludes that in most instances Centrelink’s decisions to ban customers...

The Hon Alastair Nicholson explores the nature of justice under the current government, looking at examples such as the mandatory and unlimited detention of asylum seekers, the provisions of Australia’s new security legislation and the limited access to justice of people who are facing the disadvantages of poverty, illness, or the prejudices of age, gender...

This paper evaluates the implications for metropolitan planning of the social justice strategies launched since 1986 by the Cain, Bannon and Hawke Labor governments.