Public policy critique, legal and structural dysfunction, governance critique, reform proposals, open letters and replies
Police bias in NSW is enabling domestic abusers to weaponise DV laws against victims. This article reveals how the current playbook fails, how system abuse flourishes, and what reforms are urgently needed to restore fairness, safety, and accountability.
I’m sick of having to express my frustration with the legal profession only in the form of lawyer jokes. The punchline has worn thin. It’s time the legal profession stopped laughing all the way to the bank, and started acting in the interests of its clients.
The current pandemic and financial meltdown reinforces the urgent need for Australia to abandon the planned and legislated Stage 3 tax cuts, and instead pursue policies that increase real wages and increase the progressivity of the taxation system. Without this, we will continue to lurch from one catastrophe to another.
Australia has a structure of regulatory oversight in the construction industry that is designed to fail, but the problems go deeper than the surface cracks currently identified.
