Alternative Law Journal
Volume 24, Number 3, June 1999
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MEDIA RELEASE 6 July 1999
Celebrating 25 years of legal publishing
In May 1974, the Fitzroy Legal Service began publishing a
newsletter for its members. Produced on a typewriter, roneoed and
naming its 'superstar' of May to be Gough Whitlam, it was the birth
of the Legal Service Bulletin a publication that would ultimately
become the Alternative Law Journal.
The editors of this issue, Chris Field and Ian Freckelton, in
planning this special issue for the anniversary, asked their writers
to look at their subject from a 1999 perspective looking back over
25 years and also looking forward to next century.
Lawyer criticises new Family Court ideology
sitive, caring male versions of mothers'. Alexander remains
unconvinced that the 'new father' is a widespread concept certainly
not deserving of the 'high degree of community, judicial and
legislative acclaim and praise received'.
Feminists question abortion laws
lative arena can, on occasion, provide a sympathetic environment
for feminist arguments in the abortion area.
Leading lawyer questions our policy on Aboriginals
Bryan Keon-Cohen, the Journal's founding editor in 1974 says
'Aboriginal affairs, especially traditional rights to land, have entered
a new age, and that a serious struggle looms if indigenous people
are to hold the line, let alone advance on it'.
Other topics covered in this issue are:
* effect of new corporate philosophies and practices on policing
* civil libertarianism: the future
* environmental regulation
* the new world of work and work organisation
* software: now a key part of our social structure
* codes of conduct: self-regulatory consumer protection
* the evolving role of the coroner.
For more information contact the editor for this edition Chris Field,
Executive Director, Consumer Law Centre, Melbourne, tel 03 9629
6300
or Liz Boulton, Editorial Coordinator on tel 03 9905 3362; email:
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