Former Greens Senator and environmental activist Bob Brown recently brought a successful constitutional challenge to Tasmanian anti-protest laws. In Brown v Tasmania [2017] HCA 43; 91 ALJR 1089, the High Court ruled in favour of Brown and second plaintiff Jessica Hoyt, applying the constitutional freedom of political communication to invalidate provisions of the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act 2014 (Tas) (the ‘Protestors Act’) insofar as they applied to forestry land
Examines the Supreme Court decision in R. (on the application of Buckinghamshire CC) v Secretary of ...
The Tasmanian government has proposed reforms to the ‘hate speech’ provisions in the Anti-Discrimina...
Case C-112/00 Schmidberger Internationale Transporte and Planzüge v Austria; Human Rights in the Bal...
Brown v The State of Tasmania is an implied freedom of political communication challenge which was h...
High Court of Australia, Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle, Gordon, Edelman JJ, 18 October 201...
Two cases currently before the High Court of Australia — Clubb v Edwards and Preston v Avery — raise...
Political protest in Australia remains vulnerable to ongoing and cumulative legislative restriction ...
Hotz v University of Cape Town (2016 (4) All SA 723 (SCA)) presented the Supreme Court of Appeal (SC...
This article explores an ancient tale of customary public rights that starts and ends with the landm...
Recent heavy handedness from police and the authorities more generally has seen protest gradually ed...
This paper examines the laws that apply to protests in NSW, showing that it is the common law right ...
The Constitutional Court on 18th February 2020 rendered its judgment in the case of Chishimba Kambwi...
A central message delivered by the High Court in Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth; Plaintiff M69 o...
Section 487 (s. 487) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act extends ...
In 1951, during the height of Cold War hysteria in Australia, the High Court of Australia thwarted t...
Examines the Supreme Court decision in R. (on the application of Buckinghamshire CC) v Secretary of ...
The Tasmanian government has proposed reforms to the ‘hate speech’ provisions in the Anti-Discrimina...
Case C-112/00 Schmidberger Internationale Transporte and Planzüge v Austria; Human Rights in the Bal...
Brown v The State of Tasmania is an implied freedom of political communication challenge which was h...
High Court of Australia, Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle, Gordon, Edelman JJ, 18 October 201...
Two cases currently before the High Court of Australia — Clubb v Edwards and Preston v Avery — raise...
Political protest in Australia remains vulnerable to ongoing and cumulative legislative restriction ...
Hotz v University of Cape Town (2016 (4) All SA 723 (SCA)) presented the Supreme Court of Appeal (SC...
This article explores an ancient tale of customary public rights that starts and ends with the landm...
Recent heavy handedness from police and the authorities more generally has seen protest gradually ed...
This paper examines the laws that apply to protests in NSW, showing that it is the common law right ...
The Constitutional Court on 18th February 2020 rendered its judgment in the case of Chishimba Kambwi...
A central message delivered by the High Court in Plaintiff M61/2010E v Commonwealth; Plaintiff M69 o...
Section 487 (s. 487) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act extends ...
In 1951, during the height of Cold War hysteria in Australia, the High Court of Australia thwarted t...
Examines the Supreme Court decision in R. (on the application of Buckinghamshire CC) v Secretary of ...
The Tasmanian government has proposed reforms to the ‘hate speech’ provisions in the Anti-Discrimina...
Case C-112/00 Schmidberger Internationale Transporte and Planzüge v Austria; Human Rights in the Bal...