Common(wealth) Knowledge

Common(wealth) Knowledge #42: Why Australia can't ban political parties

More than 8 decades on from Menzies first attempting to ban the Communist Party of Australia.

Common(wealth) Knowledge #41: Calls for an Australian Human Rights Act renewed

What could this act look like?

Commonwealth Knowledge #40: An independent Prime Minister - once in a teal moon

A look at whether it is possible for an independent to become the Prime Minister of Australia.

Common(wealth) Knowledge #39: Overriding the Human Rights Act and supremacy of Parliament

A look at human rights protections in Australia and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.

Common(wealth) Knowledge #38: Unions 3, New South Wales 0

A revisit of the definition of protected speech in Australia.

Common(wealth) Knowledge #37: The right to protest versus public health

What a new judgment from a Victorian court means.

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