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Prison doesn’t work: A case study from the country of its birth

Despite their ubiquity across much of the world, all reputable studies, including my own, show that penitentiaries...

22 April 2024

By Dr Matt Bach

Victoria to reduce threat of defamation claims against victim-survivors

Victorians have been invited to contribute to a suite of nationwide reforms that seek to harmonise defamation laws and...

26 August 2022

By Jess Feyder

Dressing gowns to robes: Putting home courts in the dock

For the sake of our court system and for our broader legal community, in-person work across the entirety of the legal...

10 February 2022

By Dr Matt Bach MP

‘A poor man’s system of [in]justice’: Victoria’s backlog crisis

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is currently “crippled”, and urgent action is required, writes Dr...

14 January 2022

By Dr Matt Bach MP