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Rosalind Dixon

Rosalind Dixon

Rosalind Dixon is Anthony Mason Professor and Scientia Professor of Law at UNSW Sydney. She is also co-director of UNSW’s new Resilient Democracy Lab.

The National Socialist Network rally outside the NSW parliament on November 8.

How to stop neo-Nazis forming a political party: This involves you, Albanese

These anti-democratic fringe-dwellers want to exploit democracy just so they can white-ant it from within. Here’s how democracy can fight back.

  • Rosalind Dixon

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a dinner in the (surviving) East Room of the White House on October 15.

Trump wants a third term. Here’s how he might pull it off

This is a real threat to democracy, not only for America but for the world.

  • Rosalind Dixon
Donald Trump has begun his second term.

If Trump wields the wrecking ball, the democratic damage may be irreversible

Will the second Trump administration be defined by a form of constitutional and political “hard ball” or else “wrecking ball” strategy.

  • Rosalind Dixon
NSW Premier Chris Minns announced tough new bail laws after Molly Ticehurst’s death.

DV bail changes make a big difference, but Minns missed one big red flag

The NSW government’s proposed laws will make it much harder for the most serious offenders to inflict harm. But there are other protections it can and must deploy.

  • Rosalind Dixon
Thousands join the Sydney rally on Saturday.

A royal commission will take too long. Here’s what must be done to keep women safe

A royal commission is an extremely costly and slow institutional tool for responding to what is an urgent problem.

  • Rosalind Dixon
You know democracy is in trouble when governments start ignoring court decisions, or the courts are calling “enemies of the people” for their role in upholding the Constitution.

If Dutton values democracy, he should lay off the Constitution

Scratch the surface and you’ll find the opposition suggesting voters should punish the government for complying with the High Court’s ruling on immigration detention.

  • Rosalind Dixon
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Ardern’s exit hastens the inevitable, but her exhaustion is distinctly gendered

We need to do more – in Australia and across the Tasman – to recognise the invisible victories, and limited disappointments, of our path-breaking female leaders.

  • Rosalind Dixon
Labor leader Anthony Albanese with MPs Alicia Payne, Amanda Rishworth, Matt Keogh, Anika Wells and Kate Thwaites as he greets their new babies last year.

Women in our democracy: Here’s the good news, and the not so good

Women are making advances in our parliaments – and changing the way they operate – but this is far from finished business.

  • Rosalind Dixon
David Hurley and Scott Morrison

What the governor-general should have asked the minister for everything

Scott Morrison has created another political storm for himself and the Liberal Party – and in the process dragged the governor-general into it.

  • Rosalind Dixon
Protests have erupted in the US after the overturning of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court.

US abortion case shows we cannot take reproductive rights for granted

The right to an abortion in Australia is legally protected – but that protection depends on a political system that shows bipartisan support for reproductive rights.

  • Rosalind Dixon