Politics

Job-sharing Senate candidates to keep pushing for systemic change

While Bronwen Bock and Lucy Bradlow’s campaign to become Australia’s first-ever job-sharing senators did not result...

14 May 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

Could Trump-like attacks on the judiciary happen here?

Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump’s attacks on the legal system – from probing BigLaw firm’s DEI...

07 May 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

Most marginal seats to be won (or lost) by lawyers

In the 10 most marginal electorates nationwide, legal professionals feature prominently as candidates jostling to...

02 May 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

10 changes lawyers want from the next prime minister

In anticipation of the upcoming federal election, lawyers in Australia have made their voices clear by outlining the...

28 April 2025

By Grace Robbie

Politics

It’s a ‘great time’ for lawyers to buy property

The current climate is serving up favourable conditions for legal professionals to get onto the property ladder or...

24 April 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

Australia needs more young voices in Parliament, says KWM lawyer and LNP candidate

On a mission to make history as one of the youngest people ever elected to Parliament, Leon Rebello highlighted the...

16 April 2025

By Grace Robbie

Politics

1 in 5 Labor and Liberal election candidates are lawyers or law grads

Lawyers make up nowhere near 20 per cent of the electorate, but for our two major parties, those who have studied...

11 April 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

NSW Department of Communities and Justice workers rallying against Minns’ WFH directive

NSW Premier Chris Minns’ Workplace Presence policy is facing further pushback, this time from public sector workers...

10 April 2025

By Kace O'Neill

Politics

How youth and union roots are driving this lawyer-turned-Labor candidate

Emily Mawson – a plaintiff lawyer at a national firm – is running to reclaim a marginal seat for Labor, fuelled by...

09 April 2025

By Grace Robbie

Politics

What’s motivating this lawyer-turned-LNP candidate

With the 2025 federal election looming, Leon Rebello, a solicitor at KWM and candidate for the LNP in McPherson, shared...

07 April 2025

By Grace Robbie

Politics

NSW workers’ compensation reform robs workers on their knees

The NSW government’s recently floated workers’ compensation reforms do not support injured workers and, instead,...

03 April 2025

By Sarah Hunt

Politics

Invest in areas that ‘matter to all’, Law Society SA urges

The Law Society of South Australia has called on the government to seize this year’s state budget to invest in areas...

03 April 2025

By Grace Robbie

Politics

RBA makes second cash rate call for 2025

In February, the Reserve Bank cut rates for the first time since November 2020. In this special announcement, brought...

01 April 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

Politics

What Australian lawyers want from the next Prime Minister

As the lead-up to the 2025 federal election intensifies, the Law Council of Australia has outlined the key priorities...

01 April 2025

By Grace Robbie