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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 >> 

 

 

Saturday
Feb122022

Great stinks

• DateSaturday, February 12, 2022

No planning, please, we're neoliberals ... Puerile advice from the AFR ... Forbidden ideas that have to be shot down by wizened press oligarch's dancing bears ... Morrison's leaden routine versus the spritz of Boris Johnson ... Procrustes files 

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Wednesday
Feb092022

A brief history of abortion reform in NSW

• DateWednesday, February 9, 2022

Campaigning barrister and politician ... The Heatherbrae case with Aaron Levine ... Meaning of unlawfully in the Crimes Act ... Arrangement between police and abortion campaigners ... In 2019 NSW became the last state to decriminalise abortion ... Tom Kelly writes 

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Tuesday
Feb082022

Glorious Accession Day

• DateTuesday, February 8, 2022

A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart 

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Friday
Feb042022

Fresh hell

, • DateFriday, February 4, 2022

Silk gets unreserved by Map eatery ... Brain drain at Syd's Bar 'n' Grill ... The ACT's reserve bin ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Facts and figments

• DateWednesday, February 2, 2022

Sorry Sandy ... Judicial friends take divergent paths ... "Plainly wrong" ... "High esteem" ... Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan ... Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate ... Comity and "principle" ... FCFC judges at sixes and sevens ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Year in the rear

• DateWednesday, February 2, 2022

2021 down the gurgler ... Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we're entirely drowning in 2022 ... Glimpses of Justinian's restless news reports ... A year of lawyers and the law 

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Tuesday
Jan182022

Rules are Rules

• DateTuesday, January 18, 2022

A nation without a public memory ... Coalition distractions ... Discretions for au pairs and refugees ... Open and shut ... Labor's great silence ... Border Farce ... Indefinite detention ... Hiding under the skirts of a shambolic federal system ... Procrustes opines 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Stealing the presidency

• DateSunday, January 16, 2022

Murdoch discovered America's weak point ... The roots of electoral disfigurement ... Rigging the vote long into the future ... Supreme Court's role in political corruption ... Military prosecutions for civilian crimes ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Bureau de Spank's last hurrah for 2021

• DateSunday, January 16, 2022

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone ... From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne ... Public birching ... Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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