Same-sex marriage is about state recognition of the union between two people and is a political issue. Religious belief can apply in a church and in individual decisions, but not to a secular state.
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The fight over whether gay people deserve service taps into old sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland.
Negotiations on the UN’s 15-year development strategy, which involve all 193 member states, have at last produced a set of ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. These focus on social justice, poverty…
Australia’s human rights record isn’t perfect, but it still good. if Australians aren’t able to take some pride in that and be inspired to do even better, over-the-top criticism could backfire.
The corporate backlash shouldn’t be a surprise. Companies have increasingly played a more active role on social issues.
UKIP leader thinks we don’t need equality laws anymore. He couldn’t be more wrong.
Instead of award ceremonies for high achievers, let’s recognise the women struggling to get by at work.
Where there is mental illness, there’s almost invariably social disapproval and discrimination. And a report released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies today shows fathers with mental illness…
Commentators in France and elsewhere have taken the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as an occasion to reflect more broadly about Muslims in France. Many read the attacks as a sign of French Muslims…
A blind woman has launched a claim of unlawful discrimination against Coles and its online website. For those of us who are totally blind and working in the disability law space this lawsuit is no surprise…
Famous boxing promoter, Kellie Maloney, recently came out as transgender. She did so as a pre-emptive move, because it had become clear to her that at least two newspapers were going to out her without…
Karen Bailey pleaded guilty at Downing Centre Local Court last Thursday to the crime of using offensive language. Bailey received a 12-month good behaviour bond for the offence, with no conviction recorded…
Watch the Honourable Michael Kirby, visiting professorial fellow at UNSW Australia, talk about how the law impacts HIV below. Michael Kirby is a former justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from…
Some Australians with cancer face discrimination when attempting to access financial services, are treated unfairly by their employers, and face significant financial burden when travelling for treatment…
A recent discrimination case has highlighted the difficulty of balancing the rights of disabled medical students with the rights of the community to safe medical and health care. In the BKY v The University…
Imagine being the mother of a young autistic boy, whose violent outbursts had caused $30,000 of damage to your rented home - but being too afraid to ask anyone for help for fear of having your son taken…
It was inevitable, after the publicity surrounding the BBC’s recent Crimewatch appeal, that the Madeleine McCann story would regain currency. Speculation about the identity of her abductor has of course…
Once again Roma people are in the news and, as ever, they are the focus of prejudice and vilification. The most recent story surrounds alleged child abduction in Greece, following a raid on a Roma encampment…
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has Elizabeth Broderick and her team to thank for recent progress in the war against sexism and perversion at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). But it is military…
Julia Gillard has had a rough few days. More accurately weeks, well, months. Let’s face it, years. And at the centre of so many of her travails has been debate about her gender. She’s been called a witch…
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Business Law, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Florida
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Syracuse University
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Academic Convenor, Hallmark Ageing Research Initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
