{"title":"Disabilities, markets and rights: The limits of a marketised national disability insurance scheme","authors":"Will Cesta","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231186196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231186196","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the compatibility of Australia’s marketised National Disability Insurance Scheme and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The author recognises that market-based disability support is largely compatible with Australia’s human rights commitments but resists the idea that it is capable of serving the interests of all Australians with disabilities. Markets can and do fail, and market stewardship, the government’s proposed antidote, is only a partial solution. As such, we should embrace a pluralist disability support system that sees non-market mechanisms – like block funding – as playing an important role in disability support systems.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44314418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual and reproductive health care for trans and gender diverse people: Imagining a human rights-based approach","authors":"R. Sifris, P. Gerber","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231188066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231188066","url":null,"abstract":"In Australia today, trans and gender diverse people face daily indignities in a myriad of contexts, including when accessing sexual and reproductive health care. This article illuminates some of the barriers that trans and gender diverse people experience when seeking sexual and reproductive health care and illustrates how these obstacles violate human rights. It concludes with recommendations regarding reforms to better protect the rights and dignity of trans and gender diverse people in Australia.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48299456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breathing life into a mariner’s tale","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/1037969x231181970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x231181970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48260760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law & Culture","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/1037969x231180011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x231180011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Isolating children in detention: Cautioning international comparisons","authors":"Ergun Cakal","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231179862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231179862","url":null,"abstract":"Solitary confinement of children is increasingly being challenged in Australian courts, with rulings recently handed down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Recent international jurisprudence on the harmful practice, and on torture more broadly, stands poised to advance the local cause. This article warns that some international perspectives are outdated, with faulty or politically charged logics, and that, while appearing measured at first sight, reliance on older jurisprudence may ultimately impede progress. Comparative reasoning thus warrants careful consideration, given the complex political (hierarchical, state-deferential), definitional and evidential dynamics (conceiving and substantiating harm, purpose, intention) at play in adjudicating torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42587354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimising risks for South Australia’s legal interns","authors":"A. Hewitt, Stacey Henderson, Kylie Covark","doi":"10.1177/1037969x231164731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x231164731","url":null,"abstract":"Australia’s legal profession is currently undergoing a long-awaited reckoning as professional representative bodies, law firms and courts craft solutions to the embedded culture of sexual harassment. But what of the other exclusionary and inequitable practices in legal workplaces? This article considers a project to minimise the myriad risks for legal interns in South Australia. By educating both law students and placement hosts about interns’ rights, and how lawyers from a range of backgrounds can be supported to succeed, we hope to facilitate equitable and successful participation in legal work experience for a new generation of diverse and inclusive practitioners.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46844172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating corruption, maladministration and misconduct in public administration: Has South Australia struck the right balance?","authors":"J. Woolford","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231175699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231175699","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the appropriateness of reforms to the South Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) passed by the state Parliament in 2021. Specifically, the author considers the narrower definition of ‘corruption’ in public administration for the purposes of ICAC investigations, and further examines the transfer of ‘misconduct’ and ‘maladministration’ investigations to the SA Ombudsman. The author contends that the excessive application of ICAC power on alleged minor offending justified a transfer of responsibility for such matters. However, the amended definition of corruption in public administration is argued to unreasonably limit the intended utility of the ICAC.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45620223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Voice to Parliament and government","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/1037969x231176912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x231176912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42434458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The true (financial) costs of workplace violence in Australia","authors":"Allison Ballard, Doris Bozin","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231174672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231174672","url":null,"abstract":"There is a need to determine the contemporary financial costs of workplace violence to the Australian economy. Since 2001, this intractable and typically gendered workplace problem has been viewed through a mythical lens which suggests it costs Australia between $6–36 billion every year. For over two decades, this estimate has been touted as an immutable source of truth. Accurate and realistic costings could support better policy and regulatory approaches to the prevention and effective management of workplace violence while also protecting those vulnerable members of our community who are most at risk of ongoing harm on account of workplace violence.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42674842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Injustice and indignity in the threshold of materiality","authors":"Catherine Zhou","doi":"10.1177/1037969X231175181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X231175181","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the role of dignity in the context of procedural fairness and the threshold of materiality. The author argues that dignity and indignation operate as social contingencies with expressive and constitutive consequences. The author particularly analyses the use of dignity as a justification for procedural fairness, and the ways in which a socio-political concept of dignity facilitates contestation of the law. Finally, the author explains how the threshold of materiality has conversely diminished such contestation by diminishing indignation.","PeriodicalId":44595,"journal":{"name":"Alternative Law Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41505227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}