scholarly journals Feminist Interventions in Law Reform: Criminalising Image-Based Sexual Abuse in New South Wales

Laws ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kcasey McLoughlin ◽  
Alex O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Government ◽  
Image Based Sexual Abuse

Feminist legal theorists have had something of an uneasy relationship with law reform. Although feminist academics and lawyers have contributed much to law reform efforts that have sought to improve women’s lives, feminists have nonetheless taken divergent positions regarding the extent to which these efforts can truly dismantle the masculinist character of law through law reform projects. This article revisits these tensions and, in so doing, seeks to better understand the extent to which feminists can meaningfully contribute to law reform projects. The criminalisation of image-based sexual abuse in New South Wales (Australia) serves as a case study to examine and re-examine these tensions. In September 2016, the New South Wales government announced that it was proposing to criminalise the distribution of certain images without consent. Following a public consultation process, the government legislated for a new offense directed at the distribution of these images. Although there is certainly not one all-encompassing feminist understanding of image-based sexual abuse, the importance of understanding this practice as abuse and as existing within a culture that normalises and sustains nonconsensual activity nonetheless has been a key feminist concern in agitating for law reform in this area. This article examines the extent to which the legislative response took seriously the harms engendered by image-based sexual abuse.

Establishing Boundaries

2011 ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Christopher Brien
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Workplace Monitoring ◽  
Acceptable Use Policies

This chapter examines workplace monitoring in Australia. Competing interests between those of employees and employers are outlined. Recent decisions by courts and tribunals in Australia are considered. Information technology or acceptable use policies that are part of the contract of employed are identified as a means of establishing boundaries. The relevant reports of both the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and the Victorian Law Reform Commission are also discussed. The idea that Commonwealth legislation could be enacted to simplify the process of establishing boundaries is noted. This activity should be viewed more generally as strengthening the protection of privacy in Australian law. Management and workers both have responsibilities in establishing boundaries with regard to workplace monitoring. Effective communication between employers and employees is an essential part for creating a culture of respect and trust within an organization.

Many Beautiful Things: Colonial Botanists' Accounts of the North Queensland Rainforests

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
The North ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Government

Colonial botanists played an important role in both elucidating and reshaping the nature of the North Queensland rainforests between 1860 and 1915. The Government Botanist of Victoria, Ferdinand von Mueller, was the first to begin to document the plant life of North Queensland. In 1859, on separation from New South Wales, Queensland's first Colonial Botanist was appointed to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens; this role was filled initially by Walter Hill, then by Frederick Manson Bailey.They were based at a distance from the northern rainforests and largely relied on local collectors to supply them with specimens that they would then identify, name and describe. They were also part of a network that assisted in the introduction of plants to North Queensland from other tropical locations for acclimatization purposes, and they worked to promote the development of tropical agriculture in the region. Colonial botanists not only promoted the settlement of rainforest areas and utilization of rainforest species, they also recorded and commented on the associated processes of environmental change that they observed.

The New South Wales Community Welfare Act 1982 and Foster Parents

1983 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Richard Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Foster Parents ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
General Overview ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The Government

The Community Welfare Act 1982 was passed by the New South Wales Parliament and received Royal Assent on 25 May 1982. However, it is not yet in force: the Act itself provides that it will come into force on a day appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation. This means it can come into force when the government decides that it should. It is possible for parts of it to be brought into force at different times.The Act is long and complex. Rather than attempt a general overview of it, this paper will consider what the Act says on issues of special concern to foster parents.

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