Academics in the News 2006
"Self-Interest Calls the Tune in Local Singles Chart Success", Intellectual Property Lawyer and UTS PhD student, Alex Malik, argues that the creation of a new singles chart by the Australian Recording Industry Association discriminates against digital downloads.
Canberra Times, 29 December 2006, pg 15
"Court Extends PM's Power Over States" - Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer comments that the High Court's dismissal of the Work Choices laws challenge could have been predicted in the 20s.
Australian Financial Review, 15 November 2006, pg 1
"Desperate Plea for End to Secret Trade in Human Eggs" - Assoc. Prof. Anita Stuhmcke comments on moves towards uniform surrogacy regulations within Australia.
Sun Herald, 12 November 2006, pg 16
"I'll Carry Your Baby - Surrogate Mother Volunteered to Help Senator", UTS Law Associate Professor Anita Stuhmcke proposes that uniform national laws would detangle confusions around rights of parties in surrogacy arrangements.
Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2006, pg 1
"National Surrogacy System Would Clarify Parents' Rights: Expert", UTS Associate Professor Anita Stuhmcke's views that laws should reflect changes in community acceptance of surrogacy arrangements.
AAP, 7 November 2006
"Senator Sparks Debate on Surrogacy Laws" - Assoc. Prof. Anita Stuhmcke discusses how advances in science can/are changing the ways surrogacy is used in society today.
ABC, 7 November 2006
Radio National (National Australia) & ABC Canberra - Associate Professor Anita Stuhmcke comments on the debate on surrogacy recently sparked by Senator Stephen Conroy.
Radio National (National Australia) & ABC 666 Canberra, 7 November 2006
ABC Radio National & ABC Canberra: Breakfast Show - Jamila Hussain, UTS Law Lecturer, comments on the Sheikh AlHilaly controversy.
ABC Radio National & ABC Canberra, 1 November 2006
ABC Illawarra (Wollongong) - Associate Professor Geoff Monahan comments on the NSW Coalition's call for lowering the age of criminal responsibility.
ABC Illawarra (Wollongong), Mornings, 31 October 2006
ABC Radio National: The Religion Report, "The Veil Row", UTS Lecturer Jamila Hussain discusses former UK foreign secretary Jack Straw's recent remarks about naqibs and the significance of these comments, the veil and women in Islam (transcript and audio download).
ABC Radio National, The Religion Report, 18 October 2006
Triple J: Topshelf - Intellectual Property Lawyer and UTS PhD student, Alex Malik, is interviewed by Robbie Buck about the new combined ARIA physical CD sales and digital download chart.
Triple J 105.7, Topshelf, 9 October 2006
Triple J: Hack - PhD student Alex Malik comments on the state of the Australian digital download market.
Triple J 105.7, Hack, 5 October 2006
"Personal Liability for Corporate Fault" - UTS Corporate Law Group cited in the report by the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), which advises the Australian Federal Government on corporate law. The UTS Corporate Law Group comprises of Dr Colin Hawes, Marina Nehme and Angus Young.
CAMAC, Released 26 September 2006
"How MySpace Makes Money" - UTS PhD Law student and Intellectual Property Lawyer, Alex Malik's concerns with terms and condition references that effectively allows MySpace to modify artist's music.
JTV, ABC Online, 25 August 2006
"Australia Lagging Behind the World: Justice Kirby" - High Court judge, Justice Michael Kirby, delivers controversial lecture to UTS Law students at a special seminar on the legitimacy of military tribunals to try terror suspects.
Radio National and ABC Local Radio, 23 August 2006
"Australia's Sex Slave Trade", Law academic and Director of the Anti-Slavery Project, Jennifer Burn, comments on emerging destinations for trafficking within Australia, overcoming stereotypes and protection visas to assist prosecution of traffickers.
madison, August 2006, pg 42
Triple J: Sunday Night Safran - Penny Crofts, Senior Lecturer, discusses her findings after a tour of inner city brothels in Melbourne, and the differences in laws from Sydney.
Triple J, Sunday Night Safran, 16 July 2006
"Game, Set and Moot", UTS Mooting Coach and Senior Associate at Dibbs Abbott Stillman Laywers, Angus Macinnis, talks about juggling work as an employment and IR lawyer with coaching intervarsity mooting teams.
Lawyers Weekly, 30 June 2006, pg 41
ABC 702 Sydney: Drive - UTS Law Lecturer, Michelle Sanson, comments on the creation of the world's biggest charitable trust and argues for sustainability for the future.
ABC 702, Drive, 26 June 2006
"Sex Work Unfairly Treated: Academic", UTS Senior Law Lecturer, Penny Crofts, comments that despite brothels operating as legitimate businesses they are still treated differently.
Border Mail, 26 May 2006, pg 10
"Sex Industry Myths Need Debunking", Penny Crofts, Senior Lecturer, says that the regulation of brothels was being impeded by a high level of disgust in the community.
North West Star (QLD), 26 May 2006, pg 7
"Sex Industry Help for Image Change", UTS Senior Lecturer, Penny Crofts's research indicates a greater need for public awareness to dispel social taboo.
Launceston Examiner, 26 May 2006, pg 2
ABC Radio National: Street Stories, "My Pleasure is Your Business", Penny Crofts, UTS Senior Lecturer, will be featured in this program about home-based sex workers, sourced from her recent UTSpeaks public lecture last month.
ABC Radio National, 576AM, 25 June 2006
"Dispensing Justice by Teaching Letter of Law", Professor David Barker, former Dean of the Faculty of Law, has been honoured with an appointment of a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's 2006 Birthday Honours List for services to legal education.
North Shore Times, 14 June 2006, pg 1
"Sex Industry Myths 'Need Debunking'", Senior Lecturer, Penny Crofts, will speak at a public lecture on the regulation of brothels at a local and state level and common misconceptions about the industry.
The Australian, 25 May 2006
ABC 666 (Canberra): Drive - Penny Crofts, UTS Faculty of Law, will be giving a talk tonight on the ideas of disgust generated by the sex industry.
ABC Radio, Drive, 25 May 2006
"The Truth is Out There, But Maybe Not for Long", UTS Adjunct Professor and former NSW Supreme Court justice, The Hon. David Levine RFD QC's views on truth and the prediction of new privacy laws outlined at the Defamation and Seditions Law seminar at UTS last April, in the wake of a review of the Privacy Act by the Australian Law Reform Commission due in September.
The Australian, 18 May 2006, pg 17
Letters: Alex Malik, Copyright and Technology Lawyer and UTS PhD student, "Digital Download Prices"
BRW, 11 May 2006, pg 10 Full Story (PDF)
Radio Adelaide: The Wire - Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer, discusses the new industrial relations law High Court challenge.
National Australia, 8 May 2006
Opinion: Colin Hawes "Aussie Banks in China: Throwing Caution to the Wind?", Australasian Legal Business
Australasian Legal Business, 4 May 2006 Full Story (ALB website)
"Are Aussie Downloads Too Expensive?" - PhD Law student, Alex Malik, discusses the results of a study on the pricing of local digital music downloads.
Beat Magazine (Melbourne), 3 May 2006, pg 34
Opinion: Alex Malik, Copyright and Technology Lawyer and UTS PhD student, "In Cyberspace, Record Companies are Still Calling the Tunes"
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 2006, pg 17 Full Story (PDF)
Triple J: 5.00pm News - PhD Law student, Alex Malik, comments on his new study that reveals Australian consumers are paying too much for music downloads.
National Australia, 27 April 2006
Letters to the Editor: Geoff Holland et al "Cole Must Have Power to Probe Ministers' Legal Liability"
The Australian, 13 April 2006, pg 11 Full Story (PDF)
"Damages Cap Brings Industry Manna" - UTS Adjunct Professor and former defamation judge, The Hon. David Levine RFD QC, discusses the impact of the new national defamation laws within the media industry on monetary damages awards and potential development of greater legal protection for personal privacy. Defamation and sedition laws will be covered at a public seminar on Monday 3 April, where he will be speaking.
The Australian, 30 March 2006, pg 17 of Media supplement
"Research and Innovation" - Mention of the Criminology Research Council of Australia research grant to Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer to analyse the legal impact of state and federal "preventative detention" legislation. More information
The Australian Financial Review, 27 March 2006, pg 33 of Education supplement
"Sexual Servitude for Sale" - Director of the UTS Community Law Centre, Jennifer Burn, comments on her work on the Anti-Slavery Project and its efforts to erradicate human trafficking and slavery in Australia.
Courier Mail, 18 March 2006
"Big Bang for Your Bucks" - Penny Crofts, UTS Senior Lecturer, on the legalisation of brothels in Sydney and its affects in the industry, based on examination of records from Land and Environmental Court rulings.
MX News, 16 March 2006, pg 5
"What's on at the Fair" - UTS Senior Law Lecturer Jennifer Burn to feature as a keynote speaker at the Sydney Law Careers Fair for 2006.
The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2006, pg 5 of Law Careers Fair supplement
Radio Adelaide (National Australia): The Wire - Jennifer Burn, Senior Lecturer, discusses her report findings on human trafficking that was recently presented to the UN Convention to Eradicate Discrimination Against Women.
Radio Adelaide: The Wire, 14 March 2006
"Lawyers Tell Couples More Talk, Less Court" - Discusses how family law experts say collaborative contracts should be the solution for divorce disputes. UTS Senior Lecturer, Marilyn Scott, comments on the benefits of this for family lawyers as well to combat high burn-up rates amongst the profession.
The Australian Financial Review, 24 February 2006, pg 55