Increased flexibility for Australian Citizenship applicants The Australian Government has announced changes that will streamline the pathway to citizenship for some of our most talented prospective Australians. Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, Alex Hawke MP, has introduced additional flexibility to recognise the unique difficulties faced byRead More →
Leading Sydney barrister Hament Dhanji SC has been appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. Attorney General Mark Speakman said Mr Dhanji brings three decades of legal experience to the Supreme Court bench. “I congratulate Mr Dhanji, whose ascension follows an accomplished career specialising in criminal law,Read More →
Three years after leading the party to a thrashing election defeat, Matthew Guy has been brought back as Opposition Leader, by the Victorian parliamentary Liberal Party. True, Michael O’Brien was not cutting through. True, it is a difficult political terrain with covid pandemic, lockdowns, fear of the unknown and VictoriansRead More →
Last month, when the Taliban captured Kabul after mounting a swift offensive in a matter of few weeks, it shook the whole universe. Only four week earlier the US president Joe Biden had claimed the Taliban would take more than 90 days to reach Kabul. It was an abysmal failureRead More →
Afghanistan situation makes a grim cocktail of offences and solutions of international diplomacy As the situation in Afghanistan continues to develop, the whole world is watching Kabul and its new leadership of Taliban with keen interest. Visuals of people clinging to and hanging off the US Air Force planes areRead More →
Defying the US intelligence reports, the Taliban have swept into Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and wrested control from the government which collapsed after the embattled president left the country and its people to fend for themselves. Heavily armed Taliban fighters swamped the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. AccordingRead More →
Australia’s legal profession is at an all-time high following a +45% increase in the past nine years in the total number of practising solicitors, according to a new national snapshot. According to the latest numbers, women lawyers outnumber men by 53 to 47 per cent of the total number ofRead More →
Victorians are being encouraged to have their say on the Andrews Labor Government’s major reforms of school-based vocational education and senior secondary education. The reforms will see the integration of the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) into the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). This will give Victorian students high-quality, practicalRead More →
Although the Law Council agrees with the key recommendation of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to give the Commonwealth Parliament stronger control over the exercise of extraordinary powers under the National Emergency Declaration Act 2000 (Cth), it has called for tighter reigns on powers in an emergency. ThisRead More →
The normalization process in the Jammu and Kashmir region in the North of India was officially initiated by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday 24 June when he met a group of leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, on a special invitation extended to them by his own office.Read More →