Cindy’s Law is that which enables the conviction of a person for a sexual offence or an offence concerning conduct with a corpse without the need to establish whether the conduct occurred whilst the person was alive or deceased.
The law provides that where a person is charged with an offence of misconduct with regard to corpses under section 81C(a) of ...
The Liberal Party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements are allies, but housing policy is an unusual issue on which they diverge. And so the Liberal Party is divided.
The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is on one side of this divide. We support free markets, limited government, private property, ...
The IDF has invaded Gaza City. On the same day, a UN commission of inquiry found Israel intends 'to kill as many Palestinians as possible' in its genocide. The post
Former US State Department deputy secretary Kurt Campbell has warned that American soft power is sometimes underestimated until it has dwindled to nothing, vowing to keep pushing his country to appeal to its better nature in the foreign aid space. President Donald Trump’s very public blood-letting at the United States
The era of New South Wales Magistracy, the judicial officers who plough through literally hundreds of smaller and not-so-small legal matters in the state’s local courts, is coming to a close, after Attorney-General Michael Daley moved to match its status with the state’s senior courts. It’s an alteration that, on
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has used Australia’s highest-profile technology event to hit out at discredited accusations by recently dumped Liberal frontbencher Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that Labor is favouring Indian migrants to boost its vote, as fallout from the comments continues to spread. Delivering the keynote address to
Wikimedia CommonsIt’s hard to fathom that 25 years have passed since Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang was published to such acclaim. A glance at the novel’s entry in the AustLit database gives a sense of the phenomenon. It has gone through 15 editions, won 17 awards –
Andriy Onufriyenko/ Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence (AI) is wrecking havoc on university assessments and exams. Thanks to generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, students can now generate essays and assessment answers in seconds. As we have noted in a study earlier this year, this has left universities scrambling to redesign
When news broke last week that US political influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, millions of people around the world were first alerted to it by social media before journalists had written a word. Rather than first seeing the news on a mainstream
A frequent question around peace talks over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is whether Ukraine should give up land as part of an interim or final settlement. United States President Donald Trump has often suggested this would be a natural and inevitable outcome, particularly given Ukraine has – in his view
The clock is ticking on the federal government’s big climate reveal: Australia’s 2035 emissions targets. The declaration is expected later this week, and will signal to the world how hard Australia will go to help avoid the worst effects of climate change. Draft advice by the Climate Change Authority, which
Cindy’s Law is that which enables the conviction of a person for a sexual offence or an offence concerning conduct with a corpse without the need to establish whether the conduct occurred whilst the person was alive or deceased.
The law provides that where a person is charged with an offence of misconduct with regard to corpses under section 81C(a) of ...
The Liberal Party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements are allies, but housing policy is an unusual issue on which they diverge. And so the Liberal Party is divided.
The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is on one side of this divide. We support free markets, limited government, private property, ...
The IDF has invaded Gaza City. On the same day, a UN commission of inquiry found Israel intends 'to kill as many Palestinians as possible' in its genocide. The post
Former US State Department deputy secretary Kurt Campbell has warned that American soft power is sometimes underestimated until it has dwindled to nothing, vowing to keep pushing his country to appeal to its better nature in the foreign aid space. President Donald Trump’s very public blood-letting at the United States
The era of New South Wales Magistracy, the judicial officers who plough through literally hundreds of smaller and not-so-small legal matters in the state’s local courts, is coming to a close, after Attorney-General Michael Daley moved to match its status with the state’s senior courts. It’s an alteration that, on
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns has used Australia’s highest-profile technology event to hit out at discredited accusations by recently dumped Liberal frontbencher Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that Labor is favouring Indian migrants to boost its vote, as fallout from the comments continues to spread. Delivering the keynote address to
Wikimedia CommonsIt’s hard to fathom that 25 years have passed since Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang was published to such acclaim. A glance at the novel’s entry in the AustLit database gives a sense of the phenomenon. It has gone through 15 editions, won 17 awards –
Andriy Onufriyenko/ Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence (AI) is wrecking havoc on university assessments and exams. Thanks to generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, students can now generate essays and assessment answers in seconds. As we have noted in a study earlier this year, this has left universities scrambling to redesign
When news broke last week that US political influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at an event at Utah Valley University, millions of people around the world were first alerted to it by social media before journalists had written a word. Rather than first seeing the news on a mainstream
A frequent question around peace talks over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is whether Ukraine should give up land as part of an interim or final settlement. United States President Donald Trump has often suggested this would be a natural and inevitable outcome, particularly given Ukraine has – in his view
The clock is ticking on the federal government’s big climate reveal: Australia’s 2035 emissions targets. The declaration is expected later this week, and will signal to the world how hard Australia will go to help avoid the worst effects of climate change. Draft advice by the Climate Change Authority, which
