Maxim Shanahan
Australia
Correspondent
Maxim Shanahan has covered the Yoorrook Justice Commission and Afghanistan war crimes investigations for JusticeInfo.net since 2022. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney, and works for the Australian Financial Review. He writes mostly on law, and has covered domestic and international legal issues for Justinian, the Gazette of Law and Journalism and Honi Soit.
The retreating tide of transitional justice in Australia
There have been many setbacks for transitional justice in Australia in the past year. The latest one happened in the state of Queensland. A new Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry was shut down after the conservative opposition won the state elections last October. Meanwhile, a key commitment of the only remaining formal transitional justice mechanism, the […]
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