Class action against pro-Palestine academics at the University of Sydney ... Toltz v Riemer; Toltz v Keane ... Federal Court file >>
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 >>
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 >>
Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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 >>
On The Couch • Monday, October 6, 2025 On the couch with the journalist who successfully defended her investigative story about the rogue surgeon Dr Mudjed Al Muderis ... Gruelling defamation trial ... Massive expense ... Six days of cross-examination ... Breakthrough for the public interest defence ... Jumping through hoops ... Family-in-law
Court in the Act • Monday, September 29, 2025 The slow lane ... Melbourne-based Circus judge late ... Repeat performance ... Dog day at the office ... Litigants left in misery ... Judicial oversight light with the birch ... Also, Sandy Groper's report from Perth ... Bush Fire case derailed due to magistrate's intervention and excessive questioning
Bar Talk • Friday, September 26, 2025 Expanded real estate for bar bureaucrats in Sydney and Brisvegas ... Fewer convivial services ... Collegiality evaporates ... Looming AGM - resolutions banned ... Banana Benders Bar ... Flu shot insights from the Needle Room ... Tattered links with Counsels Chambers Ltd ... Elizabeth Street reports
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 Procrustes makes a State visit to Perth ... Columnist incandescent about white veterans from the Southern Rhodesian army parading in Kings Park ... Celebration for an outlawed colonial outpost ... Multiculturalism in the rear ... Adelaide taxis .. And other complaints ... Nazism next .. Grump, grump
Silvana Olivetti • Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Fresh developments ... Berlusconi's "heavenly victory" ... Prosecuting magistrates in peril as politicians invade the patch ... Uproar in parliament as vote passes on its way to the Senate ... Referendum looms ... Silvana Olivetti with the latest