News Articles

Things I wish I'd known in 1998

David Bryson — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:45:25 PDT

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The ADR Bulletin is about to move from hard copy to soft copy after 13 years so as to more effectively continue its distinguished contribution to ADR in Australia. It has been a privilege for me to be involved in its first manifestation as part of the editorial group and I am grateful for the invitation to write a short piece at this juncture.

Editorial: New pastures for ADR

Laurence Boulle — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:45:17 PDT

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This is the final hard copy version of the ADR Bulletin after 12 years of publication involving three different publishers. In keeping with the times, the Bulletin will now be distributed electronically as part of the DRC News, published by the Dispute Resolution Centre at Bond University. The DRC News is published three times a year and currently has nearly 6000 subscribers in over 32 countries around the world.

ADR: Where did the 'alternative' go? A response

Michael Redfern — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:05:37 PDT

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The December 2010 issue of ADR Bulletin carried an article by Cameron Green titled ‘ADR: Where did the ‘alternative’ go? Why mediation should not be a mandatory step in the litigation process’.

Might I by way of response, albeit limited, set out the substance of my submissions of 19 January 2007 to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in respect of its Civil Justice Review.

Better coal seam gas regulation needed to keep Australia safe

Tina Hunter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:56:43 PST

Food or fuel: How will governments solve the coal seam gas dilemma?

Tina Hunter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:48:58 PST

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Food security and energy security are paramount to the survival and growth of Australia. Food security so that we may feed ourselves (and a hungry world), and energy security for transport, heating, lighting and various other activities that we enjoy at present.

What happens when there is a perceived conflict between these two vital forms of security? Should one give way to the other, can they happily co-exist, or is it the role of the law to create a framework where the interests of both are protected?

National water commission calls for closer look at fracking

Tina Hunter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:18:45 PST

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Last week, the Federal Government’s National Water Commission (NWC) delivered its third biannual assessment of the national water initiative (NWI). And for the first time, the NWC is looking seriously at water use in coal seam gas (CSG) mining. The NWI is the Commonwealth Government’s blueprint for water reform in Australia. It brings together state and Commonwealth governments to coordinate policies and actions affecting water use in this country.

The aim is a more cohesive national approach to the way Australia manages, measures, plans for, prices and trades water. The assessment looks at whether the NWI has improved the management of Australia’s water. It sounds fairly boring and rather irrelevant if you are not a farmer or living on the Murray-Darling River. But it isn’t. This is an important assessment of a crucial and highly emotive issue that is currently debated in schools, businesses, government and farmhouses: CSG extraction and its effect on water resources in Australia.

Launch of Access to Justice Taskforce Report

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:56:21 PST

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On 27 September Attorney-General Robert McClelland launched the Government’s Access to Justice Report and a ‘Strategic Framework for Access to Justice’ to guide future policy and reforms in our civil justice system.

APCD and CFAU co-host first symposium on ‘China’s future diplomacy'

Stuart Murray — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:36:52 PDT

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On 3-4 July the APCD and the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) in Beijing held their first joint symposium on ‘China’s Future Diplomacy’. The impetus for the Symposium was the observation that although the nature of China’s future international relations and foreign policies is now the subject of debate among academics, officials and much of the public, there is not the same robust exchange about the nature of China’s future diplomacy.

The 1997 Schools in Parliament Project

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:32:45 PST

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The Schools in Parliament Program is an annual feature of Law Week and has attracted school representatives to the New South Wales Parliament for the past ten years.

Case management and the Individual docket system in the Federal Court

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:36:38 PST

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The Federal Court of Australia has recently released the following notice to practitioners on case management and the individual docket system.