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As foreign Islamic State fighters return home, there needs to be proper prosecution of sexual violence in armed conflict.
Former commander of the Bosnian Serb army Ratko Mladic has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Survivors of the atrocities have today welcomed the long-awaited news.
Malcolm Turnbull’s cancellation of next week’s House of Representatives sitting has been received sceptically by Queensland ‘soft’ voters, but they still prefer him over Bill Shorten.
Psychological abuse of intimate partners is a public health problem, and is not well-regulated by the law.
The majority of same-sex weddings between overseas couples conducted in New Zealand have been between Australian couples unable to marry at home.
Malcolm Turnbull’s tactic of cancelling the House of Representatives’ sitting next week is a short-sighted decision that smacks of lack of nerve.
Former tennis star Jelena Dokic’s story of disturbing abuse suffered at the hands of her father raises alarm bells about children in elite sports.
If the predicted strong preferences from One Nation to the LNP occur at the Queensland election, it would be bad news not just for state Labor, but also federal Labor.
Emotional and economic abuse in relationships are often intertwined as people who insult and shame their partners will also try to control their income and assets.
What’s still missing in the religious freedoms debate is any clarity around what people think they won’t be able to do, or where the existing laws are likely to fail to protect them.
The polls are showing a close contest in the Bennelong byelection between the Liberals’ John Alexander and Labor’s Kristina Keneally.
The Don Dale royal commission’s capacity to make lasting change lies with the government implementing its recommendations.
Michelle Grattan and Nick Klomp discuss the week in politics.
There are about 400-600 people in the now-defunct regional processing centre refusing to move to recently built transit centres in Lorengau – but these numbers shift daily.
Some people may think it’s the duty of their MP to vote in the way they do. But political theory shows this doesn’t work.
As Orwell knew only too well, if the concept of objective truth is moved into the dustbin of history there can be no lies. And if there are no lies there can be no justice, no rights and no wrongs.
Changing the Constitution is the only way to draw a line under this chaos.
Despite its dubious ancestry, the popular vote on same-sex marriage has done its job, delivering an overall majority and majorities in all states and territories.
The wars in Syria and Iraq are products of secretive decision-making by the executive. Their disastrous consequences are evidence of the need for war powers reform.
The ‘yes’ vote disproves that the rise of the minor party vote is the result of a cultural backlash from people who reject the progressive agenda, including the expansion of rights for minorities.
Greens Jordon Steele-John on being an ‘accidental’ senator
New Greens senator Jordon Steele-John is the youngest person ever to sit in the Senate.
In the same-sex marriage survey, the ‘yes’ vote came in at 57.8% in NSW – but in some western Sydney electorates, the ‘yes’ vote was as low as 26%.
Malcolm Turnbull needs to continue to stare down the conservative forces in his government, because what they are demanding is prejudiced and discriminatory.
The results of the same-sex marriage survey confirm what previous polling had shown, but western Sydney surprised with a strong ‘no’ vote.