This article briefly describes the legal position in Australia prior to the Ice decision. It then explains the nature …

In the middle third of the 19th century Upper Canada (now Ontario) followed by South Australia passed statutes for the … considers the background to the enactment of Upper Canada's statute and whether South Australia's might have been a copy of it … Australia was promoting its self-image as a 'Paradise of Dissident.' The two statutes, while somewhat similar on the surface …

This article considers the role of the concept of freedom of communication within the law of copyright in Australia. It … concludes that the judicially articulated implied Constitutional guarantee of freedom of political communication is too narrow … elements of freedom of communication and provides some scope for the recognition of such rights under Australian law …