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

This article is about the interpretation of legal texts. Its immediate aim is to defend, against a certain sort of originalist objection, the well-known cases that hold that the Australian Constitution, by implication, guarantees certain political freedoms and entitlements. That is not to say...

Is it merely a coincidence that the ranks of poorly paid and precarious workers in Australia are replete with women and ethnic minorities? Can we identify a regulatory defect to explain why after more than a quarter century of anti-discrimination laws such economic inequality is still...

This paper first briefly introduces the reader to nanotechnology and the potential health risks it raises. It then reviews how nanotechnology is or may be used by the food industry so that challenges that must be addressed by food regulations can be better understood. The application of current...

This paper analyzes the literature on industrial citizenship and unpacks its meaning through a process of categorisation. These categories are, aspirational citizenship, explanatory citizenship, welfare citizenship and global citizenship. The writings of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Harold Lasky,...

This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of mental health tribunal hearings in Australia. It deals with a wide and far-reaching landscape of theories and concepts and their practical application to the day-to-day operations of the tribunals in the states and territories of New South...

Historically, the relationship between Australia and Indonesia has been particularly fluid with dichotomous elements of great harmony and tension, co-operation and competition, selfless commitment and tacit low-intensity armed confrontation. Despite many differences, they are close physical...

This article examines the industrial action provisions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) in the context of international labour standards which protect the right to strike, particularly the International Labour Organisations’ Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise...

This article assesses what contribution supplementary measures might make in the face of a legislated emissions trading scheme. The proposed Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is discussed briefly to outline the essential features of this Scheme. Then measures such as renewable energy...