This report proposes a single administrative and corporate service structure for the total federal family law system designed to meet the requirements of litigants and their families. It recommends that existing Federal Magistrates be offered commissions to the General Division of the Family Court which would become a lower tier of that Court. Existing Family...

It was recently reported that, in response to ‘the soaring incidence of alcohol-related violence across Sydney’, the New South Wales government is considering changes to the liquor laws and also to the criminal law of intoxication. Specifically, all pubs, clubs and bottle shops would have to close at 2 am. The report also said the...

Governments should play very little or no role in determining what people are allowed to say and hear, regardless of whether this may be ‘offensive’ to the traditional enemies of liberty—primarily religious fanatics—or to those of a weaker ‘moderate’ disposition who would passively give up ‘their’ freedom to buy a little peace and quiet. Yet...

Russell Goldflam of the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission writes on the overturning on appeal of convictions of four Australian peace activists following their December 2005 incursion into the top secret Pine Gap electronic intelligence facility near Alice Springs in Central Australia in protest against the role of the base in the wars in Iraq...

The focus of this paper is specifically defined to relate to child pornography law. The relevant statutory provisions are set out, with reference to NSW and other Australian jurisdictions, and their operation and application analysed by reference to the available statistical data and case law.