An interesting anecdote in Malcolm Turnbull's memoir about Peter Cosgrove as Governor-General, during the period of the s44 dual citizenship saga

What does it mean for someone to be charged with a criminal offence?
My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4)

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#echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law

🏛️ Great to publish this article on parliamentary privilege, coauthored with Prof Gabrielle Appleby; Tasmanian roadworks have never been so interesting!

G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw

“our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences.…” — Justice Keane, 2008.

At a quiet Parliament House on a beautiful autumn afternoon, a few signs of preparations for new inhabitants arriving imminently

eg this extract seems to bear some superficial similarities to Re Gallagher [2018] HCA 17
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111 in-person overseas voting centres across the world!

Pleased to have my research on criminal fair trial rights cited again in a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Gorse v Slovenia, in the Concurring Opinion of Judge Serghides #echr #humanrights hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...

Pleased to have 4 pieces of my research on #ECHR criminal fair trial rights cited again this week in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, in the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Serghides in Souroullas Kay and Zannettos v Cyprus. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...