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New laws in Western Australia will help victims of family violence end their tenancies

  • Written by: Eileen Webb, Professor, School of Law, The University of South Australia; Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School, University of South Australia
New laws in Western Australia will help victims of family violence end their tenanciesThe WA legislation draws heavily on Canadian and US models.Shutterstock

New laws in Western Australia will make it easier for people escaping family violence to “break” their leases.

The laws are “unashamedly victim-focused” – the latest development in a legal shift across Australia that seeks to alleviate the legal and...

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Teaching is too often seen as a fall-back option, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon

  • Written by: Kellie Bousfield, Associate Head of School, School of Education, Charles Sturt University
Teaching is too often seen as a fall-back option, and that's unlikely to change anytime soonTeaching status matters, but in Australia, this seems to be a low priority.from shutterstock.com

Bill Shorten shared his mother’s story on Q&A this week. Dr Ann Shorten aspired to a career in law. But financial responsibilities led her to teaching instead. In response to Shorten’s heartfelt anecdote #MyMum began trending on twitter....

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can your employer sack you for what you say or do in your own time?

  • Written by: Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
can your employer sack you for what you say or do in your own time?Broken contract: 'Egg Girl' Amber Holt's employer might find she has breached her obligations as an employee to protect the company's image.www.shutterstock.com

It probably wasn’t exactly how egg-tossing activist Amber Holt thought her hit on prime minister Scott Morrision would go down. The egg bounced off his head. He cracked jokes about...

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  1. do 86% of people visit the doctor for free?
  2. Focus groups suggest Wentworth is embracing Phelps, but Sharma helped by fear of Labor
  3. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Shorten's campaign moment
  4. Children are our future, and the planet's. Here's how you can teach them to take care of it
  5. Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?
  6. We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis
  7. will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?
  8. More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.
  9. separating the art from the badly behaved artist – a philosopher's view
  10. Giving workers a voice in the boardroom is a compelling corporate governance reform
  11. Ancient Rome inspired Washington but its legacy of being open to all has fallen into oblivion
  12. Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
  13. Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
  14. When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend
  15. A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?
  16. Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat
  17. Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare
  18. Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield
  19. why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail
  20. 'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy
  21. Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
  22. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  23. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  24. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  25. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  26. why do leaves fall off trees?
  27. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  28. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  29. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  30. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  31. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  32. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  33. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  34. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  35. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  36. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  37. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  38. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  39. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  40. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  41. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  42. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  43. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  44. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  45. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  46. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  47. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  48. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  49. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  50. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?

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