<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[peppercorn-claude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peppercorn Official Website]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:57:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.peppercornanu.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Cost of Cancel Culture ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our generation's desire for public accountability has given rise to something unprecedented. “Cancel culture” has created a parallel justice system run by social media.  This of course comes with a myriad of consequences: No presumption of innocence, no rules of evidence and no right to reply. In this piece I explore this growing tension between cancel culture and the presumption of innocence, asking whether this accountability obsession has gone too far, compromising the very principles our...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/guilty-until-proven-innocent-the-cost-of-cancel-culture</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc416ff7044e6cf7a39c69</guid><category><![CDATA[Pepper Spray]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Mia Lennon</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Algorithms Dream of Economic Endeavour?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Retrofuturism mourns the deprivation of an “enchanted world” with crystalline aims and conviction in human consciousness (Svetlana Boym). Algorithms have obscured the law into a “black box” that needs to be interpreted. Should algorithms assume a new life as an “invention” under patent protection today? Or, does this erode the fundamental principle of “manner of manufacture” from its chain novel?  Do Algorithms Dream of Economic Endeavour? ‘The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ Nor ‘Can...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/do-algorithms-dream-of-economic-endeavour</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc3a774c31bb6f64bdbc86</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Yu Zhou</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Law is Literally Me: The Law Revue Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[“How tampons and executions humanise the law was a connection that you may never have thought about, but the Law Revue definitely did. While we (yes, WE) might expect a law sketch comedy show to probably revel in courtroom drama and unserious cases, we (yes, WE) would be wrong. The Law Revue takes any pre-conceived notions and ideas that you have and flips them upside down- revealing a very well-written, unexpectedly introspective, and excellently unhinged, hilarious play. Surprisingly good...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/why-the-law-is-literally-me-the-law-revue-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc45e2f7044e6cf7a3a549</guid><category><![CDATA[Pepperoni]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_8f0dd0199fda4e5889621e29a011de74~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_780,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tanya Sharma</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bamboo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The term ‘bamboo ceiling’ in law refers to the underrepresentation of Asian professionals in senior legal leadership. This poem depicts the desire to make one’s parents proud, to succeed, and to spend one's entire life coming to terms with the inevitability of limitations faced by Asians. It is both a critique and a solemn acknowledgement of the racial diversity within the legal field.  My mother told me to never look down, to look ahead, to look above, to hold my head high,          because...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/bamboo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc33994c31bb6f64bdacce</guid><category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_530e40205d914bcfa014251bf1a9ba46~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Victoria Kao</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kirby as the Great Dissenter ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Kirby is one of Australia’s most prolific High Court judges, known for his judgments and dissents, as well as his extra-judicial writings and general icon-status. This article explores what it is about Kirby that delights and divides, and the motivation behind his many, many dissents. Radical Restraint Justice Michael Kirby 1998, Ralph Heimans, oil on canvas One of my favourite things about studying law is getting to know the judges. It’s one of the quirks of the degree, much like...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/kirby-as-the-great-dissenter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cc3eddf7044e6cf7a396c7</guid><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_a25e982fa73446d99a8b5384dc587a6c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_958,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Beth Lonie</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Act 2024: Unpacking Victoria’s response to the “Lawyer X” scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Lawyer X scandal, where barrister Nicola Gobbo’s role as a police informant with Victoria Police unjustly affected multiple convictions, the Victorian government recently passed the State Civil Liability (Police Informants) Act 2024 . The legislation was introduced amid Gobbo’s civil case against the State of Victoria, in which she alleges the government negligently used her as an informer [ 1 ]. The original bill aimed to limit Victoria’s liability by extinguishing...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/the-state-civil-liability-police-informants-act-2024-unpacking-victoria-s-response-to-the-lawyer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241dc4882ec6a3ac3cd03</guid><category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:24:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_4aa6c6841f77480b993c9f2230840458~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Hugh McSweeney </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace Poetics: Literary Reflections on Kartinyeri v Commonwealth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recently, my friend invited me to accompany her to an event hosted by the ANU. The event was called ‘First Nations Peace Poetics’. It wasn’t until we arrived at the event that she informed me it was a poetry reading. I leaned across my seat and asked her timidly if I was supposed to have researched the speakers. She shrugged, and told me I knew at least one of them – Ellen van Neerven had been prescribed in an English class we had taken together. I blushed, and admitted that I’d never...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/peace-poetics-literary-reflections-on-kartinyeri-v-commonwealth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241df50fcf4a427a0cdaa</guid><category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:24:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_4d3b3b8fcf864069844fa1d0ad1f5e04~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tabitha McDonald </dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Socialist Alternative can’t defeat the far right and why the Roman Republic can]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art by Oli Wiencke Anyone who's been strolling around campus recently will no doubt have seen the numerous posters for the upcoming edition of the Trotsky-ite drum circle. Our campus’ favourite vanguards of the revolution feel that ‘Liberalism can’t defeat the far right but the left can’. I read this poster as I sat on the slowly regrowing Kambri lawns before class, sipping my favourite brew, and got to pondering. I then had a thought, a thought that every man has every day: the answer is the...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/why-socialist-alternative-can-t-defeat-the-far-right-and-why-the-roman-republic-can</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241e03a2716aeb2187ac0</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:24:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_64cc1741fdde4709b11eb67cd5c4ddd2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_790,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Tale of Two IP Regimes: Protecting Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property in Australia vs Kenya.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 2019-2020 financial year, international tourists visiting Australia spent more than $78 million on Indigenous-style artwork [1]. A draft report on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts and Crafts, developed in response to the 2018 Report on the Impact of Inauthentic Art and Craft in the Style of First Nations Peoples, found that up to 75% of Indigenous-style products sold in Australia are fake[2]. Inauthentic Indigenous-style arts, imagery and consumer products that are...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/a-tale-of-two-ip-regimes-protecting-indigenous-cultural-and-intellectual-property-in-australia-vs-k</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241e44882ec6a3ac3cd17</guid><category><![CDATA[Politics & Society]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:24:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_88b9d51a20b047ab8a2a174e31a6448e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Aisha Collins</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you say ‘access to justice’?: The Legal Language Barrier for Second-Language English Speakers]]></title><description><![CDATA[When asked that undeniably necessary, but still dreaded question: what do you study? I’m always grateful that my seventeen year-old self had the foresight to pair Law with something a little less infamous, and maybe more conducive to polite small-talk: Languages. Hastily, I will mention that I study Law, before emphasising that I also study Languages , and that most of my week is spent trying to memorise Arabic verb conjugations (and definitely not traipsing through Leighton McDonald’s...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/how-do-you-say-access-to-justice-the-legal-language-barrier-for-second-language-english-speakers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241e932a596f2a27d2ddc</guid><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:24:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_7a8e2c9abca849389bcd9faae7728462~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Lola Archibald</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Navigating your employment protections as a university student: 5 rights you should know]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clearly something is wrong. Though we make up only 16% of the Australian workforce, individuals under the age of 24 make up a disproportionately high 25% of all requests for support to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), with over 44% of litigations made by the ombudsman concerning a youth employee [1] . While we may be used to a brief skimming over of our award, eba or contract when we get started with a new job, it can be easy to forget the hard-fought rights which employees, and youth employees...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/navigating-your-employment-protections-as-a-university-student-5-rights-you-should-know</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241ea50fcf4a427a0cdc4</guid><category><![CDATA[Community]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_b740f16ebfa8459683a59ce23ed5871e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Nic Carroll</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aeroplane Hijacking and Our Refugee Crisis: How Kant’s Categorical Imperative Unites Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author’s note: The views expressed in this article in relation to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (‘PFLP’) are entirely separate from the author’s views on the current conflict in Gaza. The PFLP has been designated a terrorist organisation by the European Union, the United States, Japan, and Canada. Any condemnatory language used in relation to the PFLP is intended merely to reflect this designation, and does not convey a position on the current conflict. I’ll start in...]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/aeroplane-hijacking-and-our-refugee-crisis-how-kant-s-categorical-imperative-unites-them</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a241eb32a596f2a27d2de4</guid><category><![CDATA[Academic]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0e5702_925ea0a149ad44f88a46cec9bd4fed69~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_852,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Oli Wiencke</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 2 – 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Edition 2 – 2023: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/clarity_-_final_online_version]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/peppercorn-edition-2-2023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c765d85ed83abd8bc067b0</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_273aa0b1bf0a4888b4bbf40ac6275819~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_768,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 1 – 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Edition 1 – 2023 here: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/peppercorn_sem1_2023_-_new_final_online]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/issue-1-edition-1-2023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bfcfa96e2d8139248f002f</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_159f4b0e9a8f4230a857bed5a288ecf8~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_772,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 2 – 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Edition 2 – 2022 here: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/online_version_2020_issue_2-_uncertainty_]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/issue-2-edition-2-2022</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c762ee495b6130435039c2</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_054826a8aee948cab6386f56a77454fc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_770,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 1 – 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Peppercorn Edition 1 2022 here: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/peppercorn_jan_2022_singles_digital_02]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/peppercorn-edition-1-2022</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c7636fa937958fa7de63f3</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_739d276199de4cf999cc4761c047d670~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_768,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 1 – 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Edition 1 2021 here: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/pepper_2021_final_changes]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/edition-1-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bfd61e6e2d8139248f1105</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:45:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_d45e2a8b1351451aa17b7c56296bfe1f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_776,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edition 1 – 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[Access Edition 1 – 2020 here: https://issuu.com/anulss/docs/peppercorn_final]]></description><link>https://www.peppercornanu.com/post/issue-1-edition-1-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bfcde20160b7de3150933f</guid><category><![CDATA[Archive]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:10:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fbcd90_6f2e63ab0c2c4b24aae6f449f3b0feb6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_774,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>lsspeppercorn</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>