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Tony Blackshield

Tony Blackshield is an Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Professor at the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi. He is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia.

Essays & reportage Tony Blackshield 19 February 2019 Parliament unworkable? There are precedents for sending MPs back to the people, but they might not embolden the governor-general
Essays & reportage Tony Blackshield 12 March 2018 Efforts to water down gun control in the United States have relied on a shift in how a majority of Supreme Court justices view two thorny constitutional issues National affairs Tony Blackshield 26 October 2017 What does the High Court’s decision in the Lapoinya Forest case tell us about its evolving attitude to free speech? National affairs Tony Blackshield 5 October 2017 Questions of procedure and age-old concerns about the motives of “common informers” could derail the action against the National Party MP Essays & reportage Tony Blackshield 21 September 2017 Some of the most serious allegations against the reforming attorney-general turned High Court judge centre on his relationships — real or imagined — with three notorious…
National affairs Tony Blackshield 8 September 2017 A leading constitutional lawyer looks at why the High Court decided to agree with the government about the same-sex marriage survey
National affairs Tony Blackshield 11 July 2017 The challenge to the National Party MP should help clarify the outer limits of a conflict of interest National affairs Tony Blackshield 3 November 2016 The composition of the Senate could rest on the complex issues raised by the cases of Bob Day and Rodney Culleton. And in the background is attorney-general George Brandis’s… National affairs Tony Blackshield 13 October 2016 A tangle of legislation lay behind the case taken by former parliamentarians to protect their superannuation and travel concessions National affairs Tony Blackshield 3 August 2016 If the would-be senator for Western Australia is “incapable of being chosen,” he won’t necessarily be replaced by another One Nation senator, writes Tony …
Books & arts Tony Blackshield 1 July 2016 Books | A new biography of Sydney lawyer and sometime politician Tom Hughes details a remarkable career, writes Tony Blackshield National affairs Tony Blackshield 20 May 2016 Senator Bob Day’s attempt to stymie the government’s Senate voting laws was doomed from the start, writes Tony Blackshield. But the High Court proceedings may…