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My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >> 

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Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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 Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >> 

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"If we’re only picking people who have got completely lily-white records then we’ll be missing out on a lot of people that can contribute to public life." 

NSW Premier Chris Minns, endorsing Mal Lanyon, his pick for Police Commissioner, whose contributions to public life include shouting drunken obscenities at a paramedic who came to his aid, and commandeering a police launch for private entertainment on New Year's eve ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Tuesday
May282024

More bling for the boys

• DateTuesday, May 28, 2024

Hobart's KC lobby beating the drum ... Pitching to government knuckle-draggers ... Fresh campaign ... Same stuff ... More surveys ... A Tree for Tasmanian Supremes ... News from The Map 

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Monday
May272024

Geason's ghost

• DateMonday, May 27, 2024

Report from Van Diemen's Land ... Full court reconstitutes itself to deliver judgment in the absence of rusticated judge ... Blow CJ's "request" lost in the mail ... Tasmanian forest management scheme ... Regulators employed by the loggers ... Dame Enid reports 

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Thursday
May162024

Fit, Proper & Bonkers

• DateThursday, May 16, 2024

Bipolar diagnosis ... Character passes muster ... Sexual harassment ... Professional misconduct ... Barrister's sexual harassment ... Offending the product of bipolar affliction ... Pills and potions ... Next round 

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Wednesday
May152024

Mysterious shield of the Crown

• DateWednesday, May 15, 2024

Sexual disability ... Strong men  ... Privatisation ... Housing crisis ... Immunity of the Crown ... Procrustes and the kitchen sink 

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Friday
May102024

Strikings off

• DateFriday, May 10, 2024

Fit and proper ... Latest rulings from WA and NSW ... Solicitors attraction to other people's money ... Abject departure from the gold standard ... Anthony Kanaan looks at how unfit and improper you have to be in order to get de-rolled  

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Tuesday
May072024

Dark and Stormy times in the US of A

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

The MAGA Supreme Court ... Conservative judges flirt with absolute presidential immunity ... A reconfigured Constitution ... Trump's intimidation of witnesses and jurors in NY election fraud case ... Jury deadlocked in Abu Ghraib torture case ... Roger Fitch's Letter from Washington 

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Tuesday
May072024

Did Justice Lee get it wrong?

• DateTuesday, May 7, 2024

More on the omnishambles ... Holes in Justice Lee's Lehrmann findings on truth ... Natural and ordinary meaning of the word "rape" ... Disappearance of the ordinary reasonable reader/viewer ... Graham Hryce comments on arguable appeal points 

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Thursday
May022024

Around town

, • DateThursday, May 2, 2024

Punctuation advice from Vic's bar ... Feds throw the book at library marriage ... Treacherous shallows in heterosexual discrimination legislation ... Another scalp in compulsory ticketing regime ... Quick Sandy and the unassisted Tamil ... Hands up for silk in Aotearoa ... Theodora's latest rounds 

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Tuesday
Apr302024

Other Voices, Other Rooms

• DateTuesday, April 30, 2024

Hack attack on barrister ... Heavy-handed Jewish lobby calling the shots ... No support from chambers ... Eerie silence from professional bodies about Gaza atrocities ... Latest cancellations ... Free speech in a spin ... From our Editorial Board 

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