by Chris Merritt | Nov 7, 2025 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Education, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
After this week’s sobering address by the nation’s top spy it’s time to accept reality: this country is engaged in a battle of ideas that has been thrust upon us by malign forces – foreign and domestic. We need to act accordingly.In order to prevail, this...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 30, 2025 | Anti-Semitism, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
The latest assessment of the rule of law around the world tells two stories about Australia. Just one of those stories will be familiar to Jews and residents of the nation’s crime capital: Victoria. The most important message from the global rule of law rankings is...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 17, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue, The Voice: Uluru Statement
When Australians are given a chance to have a say, history shows this country’s commitment to equality of citizenship is overwhelming. But history also provides a warning that governments too easily forget. When equality of citizenship is threatened, the response in...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 10, 2025 | Anti-Semitism, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
The Palestine Action Group and other organisers of Sunday’s banned march on the Sydney Opera House have achieved a memorable outcome. By bringing legal action that invoked a constitutional question, they ensured their argument would not be heard by a single judge but...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 2, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
We now have two major cases in which civil and criminal courts have sent the law in this country on a path that has a great deal in common with the fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes. The law, as explained by the courts, is asking people to deny the evidence of their...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 5, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Lawyers are circling, looking for weaknesses in the plan to send hundreds of foreign criminals to Nauru. They won’t need to look far. Those seeking to overturn the government’s plan will eventually work out that the High Court handed them a gift last November in the...
