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The NDIA and its legal representatives have been accused of systemically breaching the statutory obligation for Commonwealth organisations to be model litigants.

Asphyxia says protracted process left her without her wheelchair for months after it was damaged in floods

The question of how to restore integrity to public institutions is on the minds of many government officials right now, both on the local and international stage.

Melanie Stephens is caught up in Administrative Appeals Tribunal case after being denied funding for a device to help Ella communicate

Grattan Institute report calls for fundamental reform after finding 21% of federal board positions were politically connected

Handing out a cushy job to a political mate might seem harmless – after all, everyone does it, right? – but the politicisation of public appointments has real, pervasive consequences for Australian democracy. Increasingly, many government boards, tribunals and independent agencies are stacked with people who have worked in politics.

Mark Dreyfus ‘cannot have confidence’ in current make-up of Administrative Appeals Tribunal, but won’t be drawn on recommendation to scrap body

In the landmark 1973 decision of Roe v Wade, the US Supreme Court held that the right to privacy provided by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution protects a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. Last month, a leaked draft of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization…

Environment department wants some closed hearings at appeals tribunal as it fights to withhold documents relating to illegal poisoning of grasslands