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Coal protest prohibited by NSW Supreme Court
A planned 30-hour blockade at a Newcastle port to protest new coal projects was prohibited by the NSW Supreme...
08 November 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Last-minute resolution brings Palestine protest proceedings to sudden stop
At the eleventh hour, the Commissioner for NSW Police has shut down a court bid to prevent a pro-Palestinian protest...
04 October 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Security to grind Dubbo court to halt in protest
Dubbo’s sheriffs, who maintain security and enforce orders from its courts, have planned a protest over poor working...
17 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Knitting Nannas launch challenge over NSW anti-protest laws
Two climate-impacted “Knitting Nannas” have launched a constitutional challenge to the new anti-protest laws in...
19 October 2022
By Lauren Croft
IBAHRI condemns Iranian government for killing protestors for defending women's rights
IBAHRI condemns Iranian government for killing protestors for defending women's rights
Iran’s security forces are imposing extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention on...
17 October 2022
By Jess Feyder
‘A blow for democracy’: Anti-protest bill passes in Tasmania’s upper house
The Rockliff government has passed a new anti-protest law in the upper house, a move that will “weaken Tasmania’s...
26 August 2022
By Jess Feyder
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Potential US abortion ban ‘a gross violation of human rights law’
After a draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States was leaked earlier this month, one legal...
12 May 2022
By Lauren Croft
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Aussie lawyers take up cause for 19 Nauruan protestors
Australian lawyers representing a group of Nauruan citizens charged with offences relating to a pro-democracy protest...
14 September 2017
By Melissa Coade
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Proposed cuts prompt protest
The Victorian legal community has turned on the state and federal governments over proposed cuts to legal aid, with a...
06 December 2012
By Jemelle Blanco
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