Victoria has become the second state to take a step towards treaty negotiations with Indigenous Australians, with laws enabling the creation of an elected body to be debated as early as this month. This body will set the framework for future negotiations.

Finance and tech companies are increasingly using smart contracts, but what happens if they go rogue, or agree to something you didn’t anticipate?

Examining the laws governing the use of anti-psychotic and other drugs to sedate residents in aged-care facilities in the US and Australia. And smart contracts are an emerging area of the law, but exactly what are they and what happens if they go rogue?

What are the laws governing the use of anti-psychotic and other drugs to sedate residents in aged-care facilities in the US and Australia?

Corporations, as well as nations are venturing into space for satellite technology, mining even tourism. Are the laws created over fifty years ago up to speed in this new space race?

Corporations, as well as nations are venturing into space for satellite technology, mining and even tourism. Are the laws created over fifty years ago up to speed in this new space race?

When using a really offensive word multiple times lands you in jail.

Why will some survivors of institutional sexual abuse be locked out of the Commonwealth Redress Scheme? And when using a really offensive word in South Africa multiple times lands you in jail.

The Commonwealth Redress Scheme proposes to exclude those convicted of sexual crimes and people who have spent five or more years in jail.

Perinatal psychiatrist Anne Buist is a women's mental health advocate and expert witness who works with protective services, and as an expert witness in the courts, in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. She is also a novelist who explores many of the darker aspects of her work in fiction.