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This project was about truth-telling, the impact of colonisation, racism, violence and criminal law.
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Podcast wins award
The Last Outlaws, a trilogy podcast made at UTS about Australia’s last proclaimed outlaws, Jimmy and Joe Governor, has taken out the Digital History Prize at the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards.
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Citizens of where?
Should the impacts of climate change drive Pacific Islander people from their homes, serious questions arise over their relationship with their home country.
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Our report respectfully acknowledges the agency of Pacific countries in preparing for the impacts of climate change.
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I designed the Gender Legislative Index to be a tool to help lawmakers enact laws that actually take women’s rights into account.
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Unbiased AI could improve women's rights
Award-winning researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
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Critical minerals
Mining in areas outside national jurisdiction is fast becoming a reality and many existing international treaties are no longer fit for purpose.
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Regulating the extraction of resources from domains like Antartica, Space and the international seabed resurfaces as an acute geopolitical faultline.
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The right of communication cuts across many different rights - language barriers create injustice, not only inconvenience or inefficiency.
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The right to understand
Our legal systems operate in linguistically diverse communities yet use just one dominant language which can lead to serious adverse consequences.
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Scales of justice loaded against women
Self-representation creates barriers for women in the Family Law Courts.
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Without a lawyer guiding them, many women simply did not know what was available and what they could ask for.
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We should tell our government that we want them to listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Voice to parliament offers opportunity for structural reform
Dr Harry Hobbs' book examines the design of Indigenous representative bodies and develops the case for constitutional change.
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Gig workers need greater legal protections
The recent deaths of five food delivery riders on Australian roads has brought into sharp focus the urgent need for better legal protections for on-demand gig workers in the road transport industry.
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Merely broadening the definition of employment, or providing an expanded definition of worker, is not an adequate solution.
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“High Court appeals are mainly confined to a particular class of advantaged litigant.”
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Limited appeal
The way the High Court chooses cases tells an important story about the nature of its work.
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Lost in translation
Language issues and the involvement of too many players can distort an asylum seeker’s story.
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There’s a set of problematic language myths on which refugee credibility assessments rely.
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In whose best interests?
Every person has the human right to autonomy and self-determination over their own body.
Protecting traditional knowledge
Individual countries need to develop their own specific laws to prevent exploitation and protect Indigenous intellectual property.
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Disability, criminal justice and oppression
Embedding disability as a special category in law can have the effect of sustaining oppression instead of alleviating it.
Commodifyng justice
The language of the free market economy is gradually infiltrating our legal system.
Acknowledgement of Country
UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.
