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Integrity in sport under fire: Simon Longstaff
A series of scandals continue to rock sport, forcing us to question whether what we see on the field is real.
A Matter of Life and Death
How authorities are failing to protect women and children in mortal danger, and failing to prevent their partners' homicidal rage.
Did Your Brain Make You Do It?
ARE you responsible for your behavior if your brain “made you do it”?
Drug policy – the case for realism
Governments acting on behalf of society have deemed the production, distribution and consumption of (some!) drugs to be unacceptable and the subject...
Vicious threats of an online mob rescue no children
As mourners rebuild a burnt-down shrine dedicated to the Mount Druitt girl Kiesha Abrahams, who went missing in August last year, others have taken...
Worse than jail: sentenced to life on YouTube
In the digital age, there's a new controversial punishment for crime – sentenced to a lifetime of embarrassment on YouTube. Our story yesterday...
Assisted suicide or murder? The bizarre case of Jeffrey Locker
Nobody disputes that Kenneth Minor held the knife that ripped into the chest of Jeffrey Locker in July 2009 as Locker, a motivational speaker, sat in...
Disasters bring out best and worse
An engineering company that makes equipment for army vehicles is ransacked. Two men are disturbed breaking into a convenience store. Three people are...
The rush to smear Assange's rape accuser
Despite a lack of credible evidence, WikiLeaks supporters -- including Naomi Wolf -- lash out at the alleged victim. You don't have to be a...
The shameful attacks on Julian Assange
Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents...
Gillard 'prejudicing Assange's right to trial'
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been accused of possibly prejudicing any future case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by claiming he is...
Do we really need to know?
You wonder sometimes: how much do we need to know? The Canadian trial of Colonel Russell Williams is getting plenty of play in local print and online...
Putting the truth into sentencing
Some love it, some hate it. Either way, sentencing is hard enough without unnecessary interference by politicians and the media, judges tell Geesche...
Of law and war
Our military justice system distinguishes us from the Taliban - let it run its course. On a November night in 2007, Australian commandos raided an...
How a murderous fantasy cost two boys their future
When 18-year-old "Dexter" killer Andrew Conley was given a life sentence without parole for strangling his young brother he faced a future...
Talking about rape
There are many reasons women don't report rape. I know, because it happened to me - twice. It's the end of the footy season, so everyone's talking...
Women cop blame (again) for sex assault
No men, including footballers, are entitled to sex with drunk women. Women ask to be raped. Women fabricate rape allegations to assuage guilt. Rape...
Shock and law raises fears of abuse
They have been in the hands of Australian beat police for little more than three years but Tasers have already caused a storm of controversy. They...
Even grotesque fantasies should not be criminalised
In May 2009, Iowa resident Christopher Handley, a collector of comic books, pled guilty to federal charges of importing and possessing obscene...
Legalising v decriminalising pot
There are clear harms entailed in the practice of putting lots of unenforceable or unenforced laws on the books and consigning a significant swathe...
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