I am opposed to this proposed legislation. I will restrict my comments in this submission to the proposed s 52DA which creates a new prohibition against the public recitation, publication, display or distribution of expressions which are not in the Bill but are proposed to...
The 2021 Australian of the Year winner Grace Tame attended a rally in Sydney on Monday, 9 February 2026 and chanted, “From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada”. Ms Tame was exercising her right to freedom of speech and what she said, to reasonable minds, is...
Matthew Brady KC has recently returned from Papua New Guinea where he spent a week as a member of the Bar Association of Queensland’s training party for the 2025 Legal Training Institute in Port Moresby. After a busy week of teaching, he stayed on for...
Over the past four years, Queensland’s Court of Appeal has allowed five appeals in criminal fraud cases because of insufficient directions to the jury on the defendant’s “knowledge, belief, or intent” that is alleged to have caused the defendant’s conduct to be dishonest. Is it...
For better or worse, jurisdictional error is a concept that strikes at the heart of Australia’s constitutional system. Its meaning shapes the breadth of the courts’ jurisdiction to engage in judicial review. Though the High Court has recognised the difficulties inherent in distinguishing between jurisdictional...
