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On June 23 this year, the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service announced a “freeze” on accepting new clients to its criminal law practice. For at least three months, no Indigenous person charged with a crime in Victoria would get any advice or representation from their dedicated service. Anyone who came knocking would be referred “to other services”. ....
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Racism in the legal profession: "I rarely see a fellow Black barrister" marieclaire.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marieclaire.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Any prospect of thinking through the problem posed to Australia by refugees, I suspect, became impossible many years ago. This week, we’re confronted with the latest of thousands of tragedies: three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan, apparently with sepsis caused by untreated pneumonia, medically evacuated from Christmas Island, where she’s been living with her parents and older sister since late 2019. ....
Image via ABC Think of the most recent event that galvanised the Australian public in an explosion of moral protest and outrage. The event that most recently caused such a dramatic reappraisal of a national institution that it threatened to spill over into an examination of the national culture and character itself. The event that caused even Australians without any direct interest or concern in the people and institutions involved to express deep misgivings and anguish for something like the health of the national soul. This event should have been the public release of the Brereton report, which occurred nearly a month ago now. After a four-year investigation into allegations about the behaviour of Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, Justice Paul Brereton found that Australian soldiers had regularly planted “throwdowns” – weapons and other equipment, including radios – on civilians they’d killed, so as to create the false impression that the dead civilians were ....