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What did the High Court decide in the Pell case? And what happens now?

  • Written by: Ben Mathews, Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology

Two judges in the High Court of Australia this morning referred Cardinal George Pell’s application for special leave to appeal his convictions to a full bench of the High Court.

While not a full grant of special leave, this is favourable to Pell, as dismissing the application would have finalised the case and his convictions.

When the High...

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If you've given your DNA to a DNA database, US police may now have access to it

  • Written by: Jane Tiller, Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser - Public Health Genomics, Monash University
If you've given your DNA to a DNA database, US police may now have access to itDNA database giant Ancestry lets members access international records including the convict and free settler lists, passenger lists, Australian and New Zealand electoral rolls and military records.Patrick Alexander/Flickr, CC BY

In the past week, news has spread of a Florida judge’s decision to grant a warrant allowing police to search one of...

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Victims of child sex abuse still face significant legal barriers suing churches

  • Written by: Laura Griffin, Lecturer, La Trobe University
Victims of child sex abuse still face significant legal barriers suing churchesEven with the National Redress Scheme, pursuing justice through civil litigation is still hugely important to many victims of priest sex abuse.David Crosling/AAP

Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, we are witnessing a wave of legal reforms across Australia aimed at helping survivors seek justice.

Most...

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  1. UWA Publishing has helped take Australian poetry into the world. Its closure would be catastrophic for poets
  2. What is a 'mass extinction' and are we in one now?
  3. It's 25 years since we redefined autism – here's what we've learnt
  4. Own a bike you never ride? We need to learn how to fail better at active transport
  5. how growth in population and consumption drives planetary change
  6. Why Australia's first securities class action judgment (sort of) cleared Myer
  7. how bushfires create their own ferocious weather systems
  8. Vaping-related lung disease now has a name – and a likely cause. 5 things you need to know about EVALI
  9. Japanese visual storytelling comes alive at OzAsia
  10. Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough
  11. this year's OzAsia festival fused worlds in dance
  12. Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That's why we use the whole language approach to teaching it
  13. the story behind our dairy woes
  14. 1 in 10 women with endometriosis report using cannabis to ease their pain
  15. Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
  16. it's not us, it's the other lot, say the experts. So who do we believe?
  17. The government's 'new page' on Indigenous policy is actually just more of the same
  18. Frances Levvy, Australia's quietly radical early animal rights campaigner
  19. As NZ votes on euthanasia bill, here is a historical perspective on a 'good death'
  20. Some women seem to lack a key brain structure for smell -- but their sense of smell is fine
  21. When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory
  22. Shareholder activism might sound good, but it's delusional to think it will change anything much
  23. Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects
  24. Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
  25. 3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)
  26. No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theft
  27. Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
  28. Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
  29. The open access shift at UWA Publishing is an experiment doomed to fail
  30. The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work
  31. We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first
  32. Reading progress is falling between year 5 and 7, especially for advantaged students: 5 charts
  33. Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling
  34. Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war
  35. Smart tech systems cut congestion for a fraction of what new roads cost
  36. Another COAG meeting, another limp swing at the waste problem
  37. Government set to win its new powers against unions
  38. When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?
  39. Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for 'difficult' students?
  40. Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?
  41. does monetary policy work any more?
  42. Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home
  43. Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies
  44. How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka
  45. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  46. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  47. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  48. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  49. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  50. a short, sharp history of the bayonet

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