A psychiatrist who gave expert evidence in a lawyer’s human rights case against his former employer cannot be sued for negligence because he is protected by witness immunity, a judge has found.
The QCAT has cleared conservative activist Lyle Shelton of vilification in relation to negative online posts he made about a drag queen story hour at a Brisbane library.
A class action has challenged a decision that found the age pension does not discriminate against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy, arguing the Full Court settled for formal rather than substantive equality.
A court has set aside former Federal Minister for Resources Keith Pitt’s decision to develop a nuclear waste facility in Napandee in South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, saying a fair-minded observer may have perceived that Pitt was biased in selecting the site over two other proposed locations.
A judge has warned the NSW government that the court does not make orders “subject to [its] internal policies” after the state failed to comply with orders to hand over documents in a class action over police strip searches.
The Full Court has rejected class action claims that the age pension discriminates against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy.
A federal court judge has slammed Australia’s use of makeshift hotel detention centres as lacking “ordinary human decency”, but ruled they are not illegal in the case of a Kurdish refugee who was held for 14 months in two Melbourne hotels.
The Albanese government has named a Sydney university law professor as Australia’s new Sex Discrimination Commissioner.
A human rights group has told the Federal Court it will file for habeas corpus in a bid to compel the federal government to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian detention camps, with eight women, all Australian citizens, and 18 children being held in Camp Roj in the country’s northeast.
One Nation senator Pauline Hanson has told a court her social media post calling on Greens deputy leader Dr Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” was not based on race or ethnicity.