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Eureka Stockade: The Battle the Government Won and the People Remembered. This article discusses violence, the deaths of miners and soldiers, and the dispossession of First Nations people. Names of deceased people are included in the historical account. The Eureka Stockade is often described as the birthplace of Australian democracy. That description contains truth, but it can also make the story too comfortable. Eureka was not a neat founding moment in which everyone stood

Who Added the Most to Australia’s National Debt? The Governments, Treasurers and the COVID Debt Explosion

ONE NATION NO MORE: Why I Wrote This Song

Born in Moree: My Family, the Freedom Ride and the Hidden History of Aboriginal Australia

When the Records Speak Our Name Bullcorronda, Mary Ann Quinn and the Wider Story of My Anaiwan Family

By Brian AJ Newman There is a phrase at the heart of Sue Pickrell’s account of my ancestor Granny Duval: “She must have come from somewhere.” For Aboriginal families, those words carry a meaning far greater than genealogy. They concern identity, Country, kinship and the relationships connecting one generation to another. They challenge the silence of incomplete colonial records and the false suggestion that a person without a neatly documented European history somehow appeare

By Brian AJ Newman | 12 August 2026 The Gold Coast is more likely to experience a slower, uneven and increasingly divided property market not a major housing collapse over the next two years. Population growth and an entrenched shortage of suitable housing should continue to support property values. At the same time, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate of 4.35 per cent, high mortgage repayments and a widening gap between wages and property prices will restrict borrowing

Land Rights Cannot Be Rewritten Without Aboriginal People

EDUCATION SERIES – CASE & CONCEPT REVIEWS: The Right to Be Forgotten

Special Case Review Series – Consumer & Human Rights Authorities Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v TPG Internet Pty Ltd [2013] HCA 54

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2026] FCA 598

Special Case Review Series – Human Rights Authorities Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth (1951) 83 CLR 1

Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (1992) 177 CLR 106

Special Case Review Series – Human Rights Authorities Attorney-General (SA) v Adelaide City Corporation [2013] HCA 3

Special Case Review Series – Human Rights AuthoritiesAshby v Slipper [2014] FCAFC 15

Special Case Review Series – Human Rights Authorities - Bropho v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission [2004] FCAFC 16

At first glance, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents appears to have nothing to do with human rights. It is a patent case.

Hanson Appeal Dismissed: What the Full Federal Court's Decision Means for Free Speech and Racial Vilification in Australia