Spencer Zifcak Spencer Zifcak is Emeritus Professor of Law and Allan Myers Chair of Law at the Australian Catholic University. Spencer's recent articles Youth Justice: punishment or prevention? politics, topfive Federal parliamentary committee presents a decisive case for an Australian Human Rights Act politics, topfive David McBrides trials and travails politics The indefinite detention of people seeking asylum in Australia is at an end politics The Constitution, sovereignty and The Voice indigenous-affairs, politics Abolishing the Administrative Appeals Tribunal: An unfortunate but necessary development politics Australia excoriated over refusal to allow UN torture committee to visit places of detention immigration The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear politics Disinformation and misinformation: An electoral plague politics Morrison on a Federal Integrity Commission is not credible politics The contemptible prosecution of Bernard Collaery is an assault on the rule of law politics When is a Cabinet not the Cabinet? When the Prime Minister says that it is politics Detaining Refugees Indefinitely: The Executive v The Judiciary politics Australia's human rights failings seriously exposed politics Western governments will have blood on their hands unless they stop persecuting Julian Assange topfive Christian Porter's Federal Integrity Commission is a complete flop politics Susan Ryan. A formidable and compassionate advocate on human rights. politics Witness K and Bernard Collaery: An Unjust Prosecution Gets Even Worse politics Searches, Seizures and Sanctions in Australia's Immigration Detention Camps politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. The New Asio Powers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Religious Discrimination Bill politics, religion SPENCER ZIFCAK. Journalists, media freedom and the law. politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Federal Government Corrodes the Independence of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Offshore Processing: The New Legal Attack. immigration SPENCER ZIFCAK. No Friend But the Mountains:* Behrouz Boochanis Extraordinary Narrative Of Life on Manus Island immigration The Attorney-General, the ASIS officer and his lawyer: the shameful Timor prosecution politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Vigil for Eurydice Dixon politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Are Thousands of Asylum Seekers in Australia About to be Thrown off Income Support? economy, immigration SPENCER ZIFCAK. Need an urgent medical transfer from Nauru? Forget it. immigration SPENCER ZIFCAK. Government Policies globally and the Torture of Refugees immigration SPENCER ZIFCAK. Australia elected to UN Human Rights Council - despite international condemnation. indigenous-affairs SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Trouble with Section 44: the constitutional provision afflicting our Parliament politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. What's Wrong with Peter Duttons New Super Ministry? The Preparation, the Institution, and the Politician Perhaps? defence SPENCER ZIFCAK. Three Ministers vs. Three Judges: Executive Government gets Flattened politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Black Hearts Behind Australias Offshore Detention Policy immigration SPENCER ZIFCAK. From Imbroglio to Fiasco: Malcolm Turnbull Loses the Plot on S.18C media, politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Robert Manne v Ramesh Thakur v Gillian Triggs: What on Earth is Going On? media, politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. The Federal Government Attacks its Watchers politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Critique of Government's attacks on civil society. politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. First Law Officer v Second Law Officer: George Brandis and Justin Gleeson in Conflict (Part 2) politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Freedom of Speech and the Racial Discrimination Act immigration, politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Counter-terrorism and human rights. defence, politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. Chilcot: The War and the Law defence, media, politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. First Law Officer vs Second Law Officer: George Brandis Undermines Justin Gleeson (Part 1) politics SPENCER ZIFCAK. PNG Supreme Court Trumps Detention on Manus Island and Australias High Court too. It is regrettable that Australia does not have a similar Bill of Human Rights immigration, politics Spencer Zifcak. Special Envoy on Human Rights. Ruddock. What? immigration, politics Spencer Zifcak. Co-opting the Judiciary: Counter-Terrorism Laws at Work defence, politics Spencer Zifcak. UN Human Rights Council Weighs in on Australia immigration, politics Spencer Zifcak. Human rights inquiry and a Charter of Rights! politics «« « 1 2 » »»