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Contemporary Australian Tort Law
  • 2nd edition
  • Joanna Kyriakakis, Tina Popa, Francine Rochford, Natalia Szablewska, Xiaobo Zhao, Jason Taliadoros, Darren O'Donovan, Lowell Bautista
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    December 2023
    Print publication:
    31 December 2023
  • Tort law is a dynamic area of Australian law, offering individuals the opportunity to seek legal remedies when their interests are infringed. Contemporary Australian Tort Law introduces the fundamentals of tort law in Australia today in an accessible, student-friendly way. This edition retains the logical coverage of key aspects of tort law and has been thoroughly updated to cover recent case law and legal developments. The chapter on defamation has been comprehensively updated to reflect recent amendments to uniform legislation and its application in common law. Self-assessment tools throughout the text encourage students to test and apply their knowledge of key concepts. These features include case questions and review questions throughout each chapter, as well as longer end-of-chapter hypothetical problems which consolidate students' application of key concepts to realistic contemporary scenarios. Written by a team of teaching experts, Contemporary Australian Tort Law is an engaging resource for students new to studying tort law.

  • The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away from the Philippines

  • Edited by Malcolm Cook, Daljit Singh
  • Book:
    Southeast Asian Affairs 2020
    Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    24 November 2020
    Print publication:
    22 April 2020, pp 275-292

  • Summary

    Back in 1974, renowned writer Ursula Le Guin won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. Omelas was a peaceful, prosperous and blissful city. However, every child in the city, as a rite of passage, is made aware that their utopia depends on one child being locked and tortured in a basement. While the author frames the ending of the story in terms of those few who cannot stomach it and thus walk away from Omelas, a more instructive aspect is the part of those who did not—the ones who, no matter how begrudgingly, made the conscious decision to accept the price of paradise.

    Halfway into his term, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, with his concomitant strongman approach to “get things done in the wake of democratic dysfunction”, continues to enjoy a “very good” approval rating from as much as 78 per cent of the population. While it is lower than the 86 per cent rating he held in 2016, it is still exceptionally high compared to those of other post- 1986 Philippine presidents. Duterte's popularity notably endures despite delays in infrastructure projects, a widely criticized rapprochement with China, doubt about the credibility of the Philippine National Police over the “ninja cops” issue, brewing unrest from farmers arising from competition with rice imports following the passage of the Rice Tariffication Law, and growing international criticism over the country's human rights record as evidenced by the so-called Iceland resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council last June. During this year's midterm election, which was seen as a referendum on Duterte's illiberal approach to politics, the opposition failed to gain a single seat in the Senate. One writer despaired that the elections proved that “the Philippines just became more authoritarian, thanks to the people”.

    This chapter joins the chorus of other reviews that have described the Philippine political trajectory as heading towards greater illiberalism and the centralization of power with the executive, which undermines the integrity of democratic politics as a modus vivendi. However, as a way forward it also takes stock of Duterte's broader policy agenda, in addition to his governance style and its corrosive impact on democratic institutions, which many writers have emphasized.

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