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If you knew that something illegal, dangerous, negligent or corrupt was happening in your workplace – what would you do? Who would you turn to for advice? A new report from the Human Rights Law Centre has found that there has not been a successful case brought by a whistleblower
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Melbourne might be Australia’s most affordable city to rent a house, with a median rent of $520 per week during the June quarter, according to Domain’s house price report.
But nonetheless, the state government recently indicated it’s considering rent controls as part of a new housing package. The rent controls
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In July, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services handed down its long-awaited report into the effectiveness of Australia’s corporate insolvency laws.
The inquiry has been ten months in the making, during which the committee heard from insolvency and legal practitioners, government agencies, unions, creditors (both large and
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In recent years, a number of jurisdictions around Australia have introduced Vulnerable Witness Intermediary Services. These services assist complainants such as children and those with intellectual and cognitive disabilities to give evidence in court or answer questions in police interviews. While this service in Australia is currently only offered to
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Can grass roots community meetings help build support for the Indigenous Voice referendum in Far North Queensland? And the ACT government is considering charges over the unauthorised release of the inquiry report into the Lehrmann sexual assault prosecution.
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Can grass roots community meetings help build support for the Indigenous Voice referendum in Far North Queensland? And the ACT government is considering charges over the unauthorised release of the inquiry report into the Lehrmann sexual assault prosecution.
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Hundreds of thousands of Australian residents, a figure now approaching one million, don’t speak English well, or at all. The growing demand for interpreters and the shortfall in those who are suitably qualified to work in the legal sector is putting severe pressure on Australia’s busiest courts.
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Hundreds of thousands of Australian residents, a figure now approaching one million, don’t speak English well, or at all. The growing demand for interpreters and the shortfall in those who are suitably qualified to work in the legal sector is putting severe pressure on Australia’s busiest courts.