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The End Of The Affair ... Lord Moloch’s bid for more Fox News fans … The Wall Street Journal rallies the MAGA base …Will the old rogue abandon his journalists? … Is “bawdy” the right word here? … The Deep State plumbs the depths … John and Stanley Roth’s generosity to loving causes ... Read on >> 

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From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >> 

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London Calling ... Sizzling in the Old Dart ... Story of the complaining law graduate ... Tattle Life brought to book ... Beckham family feud over royal gong ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt's postcard ... Read more >> 

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Attorney General Michelle Rowland's reply when asked whether she had confidence in Paul Brereton, commissioner of the National Corruption Concealment Commission ... In 2024 Brereton was found to have engaged in misconduct following a conflicted decision to reject further robo-debt investigations ... Australian Financial Review, July 24, 2025  Read more flatulence ... 


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Tootsies with Planet Janet ... Water Softener and the Planet ... Further details of the width and depth of their relationship ... Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian's application for access to more documents ... A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation ... Collated reporting ... Read more >> 


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Being chased by a dog called Rhetoric ... Justice Virginia Bell on rhetorical devices and barristering ... It seems to be a male thing ... Distractions from the truth ... Tulkinghorn asks, where would the bar be without bad rhetoric? ... September 14, 2012 ... Read more >> 


 

 

Tuesday
Jan192021

Darwinian legacy

Survival of the fittest ...Alistair Wyvill cleared ... Eight year toxic Top End drama draws to a close ... Disciplinary Tribunal squelches NT Supreme Court judge and Stella Maris commissioner ... Pro Bono termination ... Procedural unfairness ... No finding of ulterior strategy ... Buffalo Bruce reports 

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Thursday
Jan142021

Murder at sea

Underwater slaughter of a journalist ... The struggle to get a murder conviction ... Danish police methodically unravel the case ... Dogs sniffing the waves ... Miss Lumière reviews The Investigation 

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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports 

Sunday
Jan102021

Madcap election litigation spree

Republican lawyers wreaking damage on the legal profession and rule of law ... President Trump and the violation of federal laws on electoral interference and extortion ... Late impeachment in the wind ... Rioters seeking martyrdom ... Whither the republic? ... Roger Fitch reports from a wounded Washington  

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Tuesday
Jan052021

Slip, slop, slap

Tasmanian brief and the "ethnically" charged threat to international students ... Threat withdrawn ... Multiple texts at strange hours demanding payment of $650 ... You can't take Ipswich out of the man ... 5G conspiracies ... The former MP's "distinguished" political career saved his bacon ... Unprofessional conduct ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Dec242020

Law actually

COVID fallout ... Step-by-step ... State-by-state ... Anna Kretowicz takes us through a year of gyrations, fashions and fear of missing out ... Pork pies from the pizza shop ... Scotty's moment in the sun ... Lockdowns ... Goodbye section 92 ... 'Straya, we love you 

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Wednesday
Dec232020

Close to you

Border commissar Mark McGowan ... The politics of WA's secessionist fantasies ... Section 92 in play ... Waiting for Palmer ... Conservative ideas to tame the ABC ... In the car with the Carpenters ... Procrustes tunes into dead white males

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Not him too ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape in New York's Sofitel ... Victim monstered by lawyers ... Elaborate conspiracy theories ... The same old story ... Director General of the IMF blows-up a beautiful political future ... Miss Lumière on a peculiar French penchant 

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Tuesday
Dec152020

Tale of two cities

Nicola Gobbo and the wreckage in her wake ... Corruption of the criminal justice system not confined to Victoria ... Tom Kelly traces the recent history of graft and corruption that flowered in New South Wales ... Police, lawyers and crims in cahoots ... Evolutionary differences - Sydney and Melbourne ... Different categories of criminal defence lawyers ... The role of public lawyers in NSW 

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