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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 >> 


 

 

Friday
Nov202020

Time to woke-up

Mystery of the kiddie court tours ... School students' exposure to dangerous notions ... Trump-loving academic's batty predictions ... Magic Circle's fee spree ... Toast of the town ... Theodora's Goings On 

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Friday
Nov202020

Solicitors can do no wrong

Disciplinary apparatus found wanting … Law Society in Phillip Street goes down three times in one week … Lawyers off the hook at the Bureau de Spank … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Thursday
Nov192020

Tasmanian affairs

Clarification on bestiality, Apple Isle style … A "specie" of buggery … Penetration essential … And, no opportunity for defence counsel to make submissions on sentencing … Finding of apprehended bias against Supreme Court judge … Janek Drevikovsky has news from The Map 

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Tuesday
Nov172020

Morals Monitor Malcolm birches Priapic Porter

Public Bar's private affairs ... Sloppy ministers cling on while others are drummed out of the regiment ... Smears and fudges ... Ministerial dregs ... Whistleblowing in the wind ... Horrible times ahead ... Polly Peck reports from Canberra 

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Friday
Nov132020

Heads on pikes

Statutory corporations and the Cartier watch princess ... PM yelling directions at the Aus Post CEO ... Board stacked with party hacks ... Trump and the impact of narcissism on the executive branch ... The Fifth Risk ... Procrustes unloads 
Thursday
Nov122020

Gun cabinet joker

No harm from emotional domestic flare-up ... Life in the suburbs ... Too much pineapple juice ... Queensland Madge hauled over the coals ... Miscarriage of justice ... Apprehended bias ... (No. It's not Sal Vasta) ... Threats to solicitor ... New trial ... Start again ... Michael Baker reports 

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Monday
Nov092020

Post-election prospects

Still an enormous number of hypnotised chooks in America ... What's on the cooker till January 20 ... The prospects of plunder during the interregnum ... The presidency as a private financial asset ... Republican judicial mischief ahead ... Corporate prosecutions on easy terms before the Democrats take over ... Roger Fitch in Washington rakes over the ruins 

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Saturday
Nov072020

Corruption Concealment Commission

As pressure mounts out of the hat jumps draft legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission ... Peculiar structure based on flawed reasons ... Porter's politician protection racket ... Drinking News Corp's Kool-Aid ... Janek Drevikovsky reports

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Friday
Nov062020

Steward's taxing ways

Taxation and the latest addition to the High & Mighty ... Trials and tribulations of tax minimisers ... Foreigners in Paris ... Mistreatment of multinationals and the "rule of law" ... Janek Drevikovsky reports on what Simon says 

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