by Chris Merritt | Feb 29, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Human Rights, Media Article
Last week, when Kevin Donnelly addressed a small gathering in Sydney, he identified the essential ingredient that has been missing from the debate about how this country’s history is being taught in schools. In his view, the great flaw in curriculum development has...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 23, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
There is only one thing worse than having no law to address criminal conduct, and that is having a law that is not enforced.This has the perverse effect of encouraging the very conduct that should have been suppressed, while destroying public confidence in one of the...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 16, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Right now, nobody knows the religious or racial breakdown of the federal judiciary. And in the age of doxxing, that is how it should stay. As the Jewish community has learned, there is no shortage of racist ratbags in this country who are prepared to single out...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 8, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
In a turbulent world, the defenders of the principles underpinning democracy and the rule of law are sometimes found in surprising of places.One of the greatest champions of these ideas is to be found not in parliament but on the bench of the NSW Local Court – the...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 8, 2024 | 18C, Chris Merritt, Human Rights, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Tom Bathurst, the former chief justice of NSW, has been handed a task that has proved to be beyond the capacity of the best brains in the NSW parliament.He has been asked to review a law that is incapable of dealing with the worst of the anti-Semitic bile that has...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Ken Hayne is a most unlikely revolutionary. But when future historians seek to identify those responsible for the great turning points in corporate law, this former High Court judge could emerge as first among equals. Standing with Hayne will be at least two...
