Michael Bradley, Author at Crikey

Is Dutton racist? Doesn’t matter. Does he practise racism in public life? Yes, beyond doubt

Michael Bradley — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:38:12 +0000

Being racist is, appropriately, not illegal. Racial discrimination is unlawful. The hard question is determining when the performance of racist beliefs, by words, should be outside the law.

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Locking up 10-year-olds is racist by design and in effect

Michael Bradley — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:34:17 +0000

If the age of criminal responsibility is lowered, almost all of the extra children arrested, incarcerated and institutionalised will be Indigenous.

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Australia is ignoring the evidence on age of criminal responsibility

Michael Bradley — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:57:10 +0000

Another government has caved to shock jocks and tabloids and failed to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility.

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Dutton’s never seen a division he didn’t think was worth stoking — but now he’s being sued for it

Michael Bradley — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 23:30:05 +0000

The opposition leader knows exactly which fears he is playing into.

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Rupert’s legal argument finally drops the facade that News was ever a news business at all

Michael Bradley — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:29:11 +0000

'In the end, Rupert Murdoch is just another king, on a lonely throne, ruling an empire of cards, scheming, ever scheming, to keep doing so even from the grave.'

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Is Australia’s position reasonable after the ICJ ruling on Israel?

Michael Bradley — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 23:39:02 +0000

The media has generally reported the ICJ’s opinion as 'non-binding'. The truth is a little more complicated.

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A two-state solution now seems impossible. How will Australia respond?

Michael Bradley — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 01:06:41 +0000

'Whatever the two-state solution was prior to these developments, it is now most certainly a mirage thanks to the Knesset. The ICJ’s move makes it all the more plain.'

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The State Library of Victoria furore is about censorship, not Palestine

Michael Bradley — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:51:49 +0000

Libraries are a symbol of freedom where creativity and provocation should thrive.

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Politicians panicking about ‘faith-based’ forces need to look at Australia’s history

Michael Bradley — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:54:47 +0000

Is our magically secular law really under religious threat for the first time? Hardly.

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Peter Dutton’s nuclear fiction ignores too many legal obstacles

Michael Bradley — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:58:46 +0000

To get his case across the line, the opposition leader would also be forced to argue that climate change is not only real but desperately so.

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