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    "... by statutory declaration you can now change your sex. So ... if you like to go into women's lavatories and rape women you can now say I'm a woman." 

    "Professor" David Flint describing the "slippery slope" should same sex marriage be legalised. 2GB, August 9, 2017 ... Read more ... 

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    From Alan Moir moir.com.au

    Monday
    Jul032017

    Nuttall is lost

    • DateMonday, July 3, 2017

    Bribery of Queensland mines minister ... Solicitor not fit and proper to practice, but sufficiently fit and proper to stay on the jam roll ... The case of a high flying lawyer and banana bending businessman whose wax wings melted ... Lawyer who said he never wanted to practice again can now reapply after five years ... Sohini Mehta reports 

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    Saturday
    Jul012017

    Stories from Dizzo World

    • DateSaturday, July 1, 2017

    Recent intriguing judgments from the NSW District Court ... Copper in sexual relationship with a vulnerable witness ... Lismore copper behaving badly ... Teenagers and tabloid rag ... Peta Leigh is courtside 

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    Thursday
    Jun292017

    Blawging stateside

    • DateThursday, June 29, 2017

    Hannah Ryan in New York assembles the best and the brightest of the online legal commentariat ... Intellectuals, pundits, provocateurs, investigative journalists ... A fascinating hive of activity in the law space 

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    Wednesday
    Jun282017

    Native title and Adani

    • DateWednesday, June 28, 2017

    Gautam Adani's problems cleared by rushed legislation ... McGlade decision reversed by parliament ... Registration of Indigenous Land Use Agreements without agreement of all native title claimants ... Elif Sekercioglu traces the development 

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    Tuesday
    Jun272017

    Crimes against humanity

    • DateTuesday, June 27, 2017

    The Manus Island class action should not be the end of the matter ... Criminal possibilities arise under the Work Health and Safety Act ... Max Costello takes us through the Act and its possibilities to deliver justice to Manus Island and Nauru detainees 

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    Friday
    Jun232017

    School for scandal

    • DateFriday, June 23, 2017

    Trust in the legal system ... Trust in politicians ... Grovel from MPs removes charge of scandalising the Yarraside Court of Appeals ... desperate politics ... Keeping alive the "blaze of glory" ... Own goal by Gorgeous George Brandis 

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    Thursday
    Jun222017

    Tribunal tribulations

    , • DateThursday, June 22, 2017

    Dutton and News hacks take on the AAT, assisted by AG Brandis in the wings ... Political attack on the integrity of the tribunal ... Conflating terrorism with migration and refugee visa decisions ... Misinformation abounds ... Woeful times 

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    Sunday
    Jun182017

    What comes next?

    • DateSunday, June 18, 2017

    Letter from Cambridge ... Hannah Ryan's Commencement edition ... Rousing calls to arms from Mark Zuckerberg and Sally Yates ... The rain ... Anxious parents ... Stocking crisis ... Farewell Harvard 

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    Friday
    Jun162017

    Fitch lets fly

    • DateFriday, June 16, 2017

    Our Man in Washington ... Republican anarchy ... The petulant presidency ... Wrecking ball through democratic institutions ... The conflicted cabinet ... Reinforcement from Fox News ... Foxes in the chook house ... Hanging Judge Gorsuch 

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