Yes to believing in the strength of indigenous voices. Yes to being ambitious about the future. Yes to justice. #thevoice

I've been speaking to some journalists about a lesser-known aspects of the #RobodebtRC: namely, that people were prosecuted and convicted for criminal offences arising from robodebts. Evidence heard from then acting Cth solicitor for the CDPP James Carter confirmed two things.

This is an interesting (and difficult) issue that warrants further consideration. Nice to hear from Felicity Graham, one of Jackmain’s counsel, on the background to this case. Jackmain (a pseudonym) v R [2020] NSWCCA 150 austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdo…

Spoiler: Jackmain was acquitted. But he never should have faced the trial that he did. And Jackmain is not the only one. #nswlaw

Making decisions based on fear is not good for us as people and won't allow us to move forward as a country. An article by Paul Sakkal in the The Sydney Morning Herald has confirmed the 'No' campaign is deliberately using misinformation to generate fear & doubt in undecided voters.

Back in the studio with a very special guest of ⁦⁦⁦⁦The Wigs Podcast⁩ so listen out for another episode soon.

The Wigs Live! - The Sofronoff Inquiry and its Aftermath - LISTEN HERE: omny.fm/shows/the-wigs… #NSWPOL #AUSLAW

"I'm voting Yes, and I'm asking that all Australians do too."

I was a visible Muslim woman when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister (in Hijab). I remember the overt Islamophobia. It often felt like “we” were holding onto the fabric of a country where our political leadership didn’t want “us”. The food we ate was politicized. The way we

The Wigs look at a truly unusual and interesting decision from Justice Wigney of the Federal Court which involved a serving federal judge being ordered to pay damages for wrongfully imprisoning a man he jailed for contempt of court. #auslaw #QLDlaw #nswpol omny.fm/shows/the-wigs…

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer. Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike. This was the last poem he published.

All of this goes well beyond NSW's rape shield law, which is already controversial for the limits it places on criminal defendants, notably on the issue of past false allegations. The federal law blocks that too, even when it's part of a connected set of circumstances.

My submission is a *very* straight run through of these problems, without my usual flourishes. That's because I am so nervous about it. The problems I described are just *so* extreme, and yet seemingly weren't picked up at any earlier stage of the bill's development.

Liberty Victoria "The proposed change means that the new Commonwealth provisions would be much more restrictive than the NSW provision in s 294CB of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) and the Victorian provision in s 342 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 (Vic)"

Liberty Victoria Against my worry that I'm wrong is another worry: that I'm right, but that the provisions will pass anyway. Maybe prosecutions will collapse? Maybe a defendant will be unjustly convicted? Maybe there'll be rushed legislation to fix a 'technical' problem that's come up?

Liberty Victoria So, unless I'm wrong about all of this, there should be some consideration at some point of where this all went so wrong. Is there a big problem in federal criminal justice policy? In drafting? In scrutiny? Or is this specific to the particular issue of sexual violence?

The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future thelancet.com/journals/lance… Please read our brief look The Lancet's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future. "Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."

My fierce and courageous wife Felicity Graham wrote on the NSW public mental health care crisis. Please read.