India has experienced significant economic growth since the 1990’s. Young middle-class Indian nationals have embraced international tertiary and vocational education as a part of this trend. Many of these students have come to Australia to study. In 2009, claims that Indian students in...

This article provides a detailed examination of the Clean Energy Future Package, including a comparison with the previously proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and an analysis of the Jobs and Competitiveness Program

Concerns have been burgeoning about the increasing number and complexity of disputes involving Australian universities, their extensive monetary costs and the damage they cause to the reputation of those universities. However there is very little empirical data about disputes in universities to...

In spite of Australia's enviable record in controlling immigration in all of its incidents, the number of migrants working in contravention of their visa conditions or otherwise in contravention of the law has continued to rise in recent years. This article explores the extent to which migrants...

This paper addresses treaty-based investor-state arbitration (ISA) and other forms of investor-state dispute settlement. The topic has become particularly controversial for Australia, given its ongoing Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Japan – which is also considering joining...

This paper assesses the present state of good faith as a concept used in the resolution of contractual disputes under Australian law. Its thesis is that the current law is incoherent due to the wide variety of views expressed in the cases and the failure to integrate good faith within principles...

Australia is often identified as an immigration success story. The economic performance of immigrants to Australia in recent decades has been lauded by government and from within academia. The depiction of Australian immigration as highly skilled and economically self-reliant underplays the role...

The development of neoliberal politics has substantially affected the development of fire prevention in Australia. The principal impact has been on the shift from prescriptive regulation to performance-based regulation, ostensibly on the grounds that the latter promotes innovation and cost...

Graham Hill was for many years the pre-eminent tax judge in the Federal Court of Australia. Throughout his career as a tax practitioner, and then as a judge, he taught stamp duties, sales tax, and later goods and services tax (GST/VAT), in the Masters of Law program at Sydney Law School. His...