Environmental destruction is a war crime, but it's almost impossible to fall foul of the laws

Aug 12, 2019 06:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Law

An open letter from 24 scientists published in Nature last month calls on governments to draft a new Geneva Convention dedicated to protecting the environment during armed conflict. This inspired a number of headlines...

Dutton directive gives journalists more breathing space, but not whistleblowers

Aug 12, 2019 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

In light of the ministerial direction issued to the Australian Federal Police by the Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on August 9, it would be a spectacular contradiction in policy if the Australian Federal Polices...

Australian media regulators face the challenge of dealing with global platforms Google and Facebook

Aug 06, 2019 03:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

With concerns growing worldwide about the economic power of digital technology giants such as Google and Facebook, there was plenty of interest internationally in Australias Digital Platforms Inquiry. The Australian...

What Australia's competition boss has in store for Google and Facebook

Jul 29, 2019 01:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law

Central to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions Digital Platforms inquiry were two questions: do Google and Facebook hold substantial power in crucial digital markets? does this power pose...

The Supreme Court decision that kept suburban schools segregated

Jul 28, 2019 11:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Courts decision in Brown v. Board of Education a landmark case intended to abolish the separate-but-equal doctrine of racial segregation in schools. But...

Snubbing Chinese swimmer Sun Yang ignores the flaws in the anti-doping system

Jul 26, 2019 09:23 am UTC| Sports Law

The world swimming championships currently taking place in South Korea have been attracting global attention not so much for the performances in the pool as the protests over alleged doping taking place on the...

Online viewer privacy is regulated by an act originally designed to protect video rentals

Jul 22, 2019 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

In 1988, after United States Supreme Court nominee Robert Borks videotape rental history was leaked to the press, Congress realised the threat that new technologies through the clandestine buying and selling of personal...