Crime and the 2025 Federal Election: Why Dutton’s fear campaign isn’t really about law-and-order
Thursday
1st May
2025
By Dr Chloe Keel, Dr Kai Lin and…
Category Archive: spotlights
“I behave like there are three on my street”: Why public child sex offender registers won’t keep kids safe
Thursday
1st May
2025
By Danielle Harris Opposition Leader Peter Dutton continues to push to introduce a publicly accessible national…
Location-sharing apps are enabling domestic violence. But young people aren’t aware of the danger
Wednesday
23rd April
2025
By Silke Meyer and Maria Atiénzar Prieto This article first appeared on…
“It’s so disappointing and puts politics over people”: Why ‘adult crime, adult time’ won’t make us safer and will hurt kids
Wednesday
23rd April
2025
By Nadine Connell and Caitlin Davey It might make you…
Australia’s fight against corruption risks failure
Friday
2nd December
2022
By Janet Ransley When fighting official corruption, prevention can be the cure. But what does that look like? Corruption…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Dangerous Sex Offender Legislation
Tuesday
5th April
2022
By Danielle Harris and The Hon Justice Peter Applegarth AM* How effective…
Police killings in Australia
Tuesday
29th March
2022
By Professor Mark Finnane _______________________ More than 50 years ago a young legal academic from the…
Before 9/11, Australia had no counter-terrorism laws, now we have 92 — but are we safer?
Tuesday
12th October
2021
By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh* and Keiran Hardy This article first appeared on…
Friendlyjordies producer arrest: what is the NSW Police Fixated Persons Investigations Unit and when is it used?
Tuesday
12th October
2021
By Keiran Hardy This spotlight was first published on The Conversation A producer for YouTube comedian…
Coronavirus spike: why getting people to follow restrictions is harder the second time around
Friday
3rd July
2020
By Kristina Murphy, Harley Williamson, Jennifer Boddy and Patrick O’Leary This article was first published on…