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The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC, and Bringing Them Home

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home, highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal ...
Anne Maree Payne
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Constitutional court attitudes and the COVID-19 pandemic—case studies of Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia

Frontiers in Political Science
The paper analyses the practice of the constitutional courts of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, in terms of the constitutionality and legality of the normative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the countries examined.
Katinka Beretka, Áron Ősze
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An Economic Analysis of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act [PDF]

, 2000
As an attempt by Congress to overturn a Supreme Court ruling by statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), although passed by a congressional landslide, was one of the most controversial pieces of legislation passed during Bill Clinton\u27s ...
Wheeler, Travis C.
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Doing the Public a Disservice: Behavioral Economics and Maintaining the Status Quo [PDF]

, 2015
When deciding whether to grant a preliminary injunction or a stay pending appeal, courts consider, among other factors, whether granting the preliminary injunction or stay would disserve the public interest.
Newman, Alison M.
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An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The Australian government's 2009 commitment to the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples did not make Indigenous Australians a “people.” In 2017, in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Indigenous Australians asserted peoplehood and asked Australians to recognise this via a constitutional amendment that would have created ...
Murray Goot, Tim Rowse
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Comparative American Judicial Systems [PDF]

, 1990
Far too often when we discuss American courts and their judicial systems, we take little note of the significant differences in the ways in which cases are handled and law is practiced.
Parness, Jeffrey A.
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Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
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The Self-Restrained Positive Legislator: Assessing the Constitutional Review of Legislative Omissions in Lithuania

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
The function of constitutional courts has undergone significant transformation in recent decades. More frequently, constitutional courts, instead of dealing with existing legislation, assume the role of assistants to the legislator.
Pūraitė-Andrikienė Dovilė, Valuta Andrius   +1 more
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The Czech Constitutional Court Database

Journal of Law and Courts
AbstractThe article at hand introduces a comprehensive foundational database on the Czech Constitutional Court spanning from its inception in 1993 to 2023. The database includes metadata on all decisions, full-text corpus, and additional background data on judges and law clerks, filling a gap in high-quality datasets for empirical legal research in the
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