Ryan Goss
@ryangoss.bsky.social
Queenslander Canberran @ ANU Law. Two steps away from the county line. Usual disclaimers.
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Today's blog post is one I've been working on for a while - I have drawn a map of what the electoral map could look like if the Parliament expanded to 16 senators per state and 200 seats in the House. #auspol
What might an expanded parliament map look like?
A lot of people would love to know how the electoral map would change if the parliament was expanded. We’ve already been able to get some idea of what might happen by looking back at the hist…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Today's blog post is one I've been working on for a while - I have drawn a map of what the electoral map could look like if the Parliament expanded to 16 senators per state and 200 seats in the House. #auspol
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“Blood Relatives,” a new series from the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark, examines the story of the Whitehouse Farm murders—the most infamous family massacre in British history.
In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British Crime
The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative podcast returns with a six-part series that asks whether one of the U.K.’s most famous murder cases ended with a wrongful conviction.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Blood Relatives,” a new series from the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark, examines the story of the Whitehouse Farm murders—the most infamous family massacre in British history.
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Fifty years ago today, prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by governor-general Sir John Kerr. To mark the anniversary, we're putting you right there as it happened, covering the key moments of that fateful day in 1975 in real time.
Live: Follow how the Whitlam Dismissal unfolded in real time, 50 years on
Fifty years ago today, prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by governor-general Sir John Kerr. To mark the anniversary, we're putting you right there as it happened, covering the key moments of that fateful day in 1975 in real time.
www.abc.net.au
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fifty years ago today, prime minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by governor-general Sir John Kerr. To mark the anniversary, we're putting you right there as it happened, covering the key moments of that fateful day in 1975 in real time.
Great read - “Abolish the Monarchy” by Will Lloyd
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Great read - “Abolish the Monarchy” by Will Lloyd
An interesting anecdote in Malcolm Turnbull's memoir about Peter Cosgrove as Governor-General, during the period of the s44 dual citizenship saga
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
An interesting anecdote in Malcolm Turnbull's memoir about Peter Cosgrove as Governor-General, during the period of the s44 dual citizenship saga
What does it mean for someone to be charged with a criminal offence?
My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4)
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#echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law
My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4)
academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
#echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law
September 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
What does it mean for someone to be charged with a criminal offence?
My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4)
academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
#echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law
My new journal article is out this week in OUP’s Human Rights Law Review on the ECtHR's Engel criteria in the 21st century (1/4)
academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
#echr #humanrights #humanrightslaw #law
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We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
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Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We are delighted to share Conor Gearty @lselaw.bsky.social’s reflections on writing: 8 tips for surviving (and enjoying!) academic writing.
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Many thanks to Conor for sharing his insights!
Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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It's a hard sell, but more politicians would be good for Aus:
* Deeper talent pool for committees & ministries
* More access - most Aussies have never interacted with their local MP
* Reverses the growing physical size of rural electorates
Since 1980s, Aus added +11 million people and no new MPs.
* Deeper talent pool for committees & ministries
* More access - most Aussies have never interacted with their local MP
* Reverses the growing physical size of rural electorates
Since 1980s, Aus added +11 million people and no new MPs.
July 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It's a hard sell, but more politicians would be good for Aus:
* Deeper talent pool for committees & ministries
* More access - most Aussies have never interacted with their local MP
* Reverses the growing physical size of rural electorates
Since 1980s, Aus added +11 million people and no new MPs.
* Deeper talent pool for committees & ministries
* More access - most Aussies have never interacted with their local MP
* Reverses the growing physical size of rural electorates
Since 1980s, Aus added +11 million people and no new MPs.
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My article "Does Nature Need Rights?" (coauthored with the wonderful Lulu Weis), forthcoming in the OJLS, is now available open access: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
Does Nature Need Rights?
Abstract. Rights of nature (RoN) appear to provide a promising alternative to anthropocentric environmental rights. But do they meet the demands of transfo
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June 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My article "Does Nature Need Rights?" (coauthored with the wonderful Lulu Weis), forthcoming in the OJLS, is now available open access: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
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Some interesting ideas in this, and noticeable that the Canberra model is increasingly in vogue among reformers; @lewisbaston.bsky.social was similarly arguing a few months back that the UK could do worse than adopting an Australian-style parliamentary system.
New blog post about Lords reform. How ideas about semi parliamentary systems can give a clear purpose to change alexparsons.co.uk/blog/posts/s...
Don't replace the Lords - split the Commons
What an elected second chamber is for.
alexparsons.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Some interesting ideas in this, and noticeable that the Canberra model is increasingly in vogue among reformers; @lewisbaston.bsky.social was similarly arguing a few months back that the UK could do worse than adopting an Australian-style parliamentary system.
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Here's the full statement from Government House:
June 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Here's the full statement from Government House:
🏛️ Great to publish this article on parliamentary privilege, coauthored with Prof Gabrielle Appleby; Tasmanian roadworks have never been so interesting!
G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw
G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw
May 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
🏛️ Great to publish this article on parliamentary privilege, coauthored with Prof Gabrielle Appleby; Tasmanian roadworks have never been so interesting!
G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw
G Appleby & R Goss (2025) 40(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 14-33 www.aspg.org.au/a-p-r-journa... #auslaw
“our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences.…” — Justice Keane, 2008.
May 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“our constitutional arrangements mean that we must, as a community, recognise our problems and accept that solving them is the responsibility of all of us because we can't look to pronouncements from on high to solve our political differences.…” — Justice Keane, 2008.
Pleased to have my research on criminal fair trial rights cited again in a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Gorse v Slovenia, in the Concurring Opinion of Judge Serghides #echr #humanrights hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
March 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Pleased to have my research on criminal fair trial rights cited again in a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: Gorse v Slovenia, in the Concurring Opinion of Judge Serghides #echr #humanrights hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-24...
Pleased to have 4 pieces of my research on #ECHR criminal fair trial rights cited again this week in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, in the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Serghides in Souroullas Kay and Zannettos v Cyprus. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Pleased to have 4 pieces of my research on #ECHR criminal fair trial rights cited again this week in a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, in the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Serghides in Souroullas Kay and Zannettos v Cyprus. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-23...