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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 >> 

 

 

Sunday
May042025

"Invasion" of the United States

• DateSunday, May 4, 2025

Trump deportations ... Detention in gulags ... How much of an enemy does an alien have to be? ... Trump judge turns the tables ... Bush's war on terror shows the way ... Forum shopping for habeas cases ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Sunday
May042025

Letter from London

• DateSunday, May 4, 2025

Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty 

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Monday
Apr282025

Conclave Part Two

• DateMonday, April 28, 2025

Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome 

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Thursday
Apr242025

Zeitgeist litigation

, • DateThursday, April 24, 2025

Matt Collins KC on live-streaming of high-profile trials ... Social media nightmare ... Abuse of barristers ... Chilling emails ... Trials as a form of public entertainment ... Courts sleepwalking into a dangerous zone ... Framework needed to balance competing interests ... Paper delivered to Australian Lawyers Alliance Conference  

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Wednesday
Apr232025

Postcard from Canada

• DateWednesday, April 23, 2025

News from the 51st State ... Conservatives on law 'n' blitz ... Separation of powers ... Hot issues for the election ... The "notwithstanding clause" ... Court dumps Musk and his X ... Anti-Trump fever sweeps the nation ... From Maple Bloom 

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Tuesday
Apr222025

Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House

, • DateTuesday, April 22, 2025

Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports 

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Thursday
Apr172025

Fresh eggs for Easter

• DateThursday, April 17, 2025

Geoffrey Nettle and Gary Hevey back to do the Robobedt corruption inquiry ... Whopping fees for nine months in the saddle ... Cleaning up after Major Gen. Brereton's messy conflicts ... The Lehrmann litigation factory in full production as key players rush for reputation repair ... Enough is enough ... Overlooked silken applicant David Smallbone wants to snitch Albo's seat ... An Easter contribution from our colleagues at 500Words.com.au 

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Wednesday
Apr092025

The law and its miracles

, • DateWednesday, April 9, 2025

Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld ... Justice Jenni Hill's brother ... More entries for the Golden Tortoise award ... Federal Court muddles the maths, again ... Theodora reports 

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Sunday
Apr062025

Chaos fascism

• DateSunday, April 6, 2025

Mobster rule ... Threats and blackmail ... Civil society on the edge ... Tariffs and crashing markets are one thing ... There are also attacks on the media, lawyers, universities, foreign students, and so-called "enemy aliens" ... Roger Fitch files from a traumatised Washington 

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