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Tuesday
Oct172017

Fresh miseries from Dutton

• DateTuesday, October 17, 2017

New Migration Act amendments ... Strip searching detainees in immigration detention ... Prohibited "things" to be determined by the minister ... Use of dogs to search detainees ... More humiliations ... Peach Melba files 

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Monday
Oct162017

Food diary

• DateMonday, October 16, 2017

Barely Legal's constant hunt for free nourishment ... Sustenance on a student's miserable stipend ... Exam time and destitution ... Failing to live off the fat of the law 

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Friday
Oct132017

Speaking up, and down, for equality

• DateFriday, October 13, 2017

Same-sex marriage ... "Equality" and "discrimination" are the themes adopted by most of the professional law bodies around the country ... It's difficult for lawyers to argue against equality ... Instead, timid lawyers stay schtum ... Portraits in nervousness ... Here's our survey of how the bars and law societies have got to grips with a proposed change to the Marriage Act 

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Tuesday
Oct102017

McNabbed

• DateTuesday, October 10, 2017

Lapses, failings and breaches see Melbourne solicitor put off the track for nine months ... A lack of insight ... Bankruptcy ... Madeline White follows the chaotic trail 

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Monday
Oct092017

Solicitor's swindle faces head-on collision

• DateMonday, October 9, 2017

How to rob a bank with a ball-point pen ... A long and expensive fraud results in the inevitable - an order for striking off ... Bogus loan applications … Ponzi scheme … Victoria's most expensive case of fraud and deception … Luan Whitworth on the case 

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Sunday
Oct082017

Hypocrite alert

• DateSunday, October 8, 2017

Young Christian sacked by employer because she was a NO voter ... SSM ... Andrew Bolt, never the sharpest tool in the shed, makes a mess of his free speech credentials ... Subeta Vimalarajah on inconsistent anti-discrimination laws 

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Saturday
Oct072017

Saudi women drivers and the HR plague

• DateSaturday, October 7, 2017

One small step for women in  Saudi Arabia ... A step back for Channel 7's Amy Taeuber ... Sex discrimination legislation and the human resources bubble ... Same sex marriage and the failure of advocacy ... Remembering Alfred Dreyfus ... Procrustes opens a vein 

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Wednesday
Oct042017

Slaters sliced

• DateWednesday, October 4, 2017

Pulling up the anchor at Slater & Gordon ... Where are the silken crime briefs? ... Bulletin from The Map ... Language of the law ... Human right to use the court's bathroom ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Oct042017

Eating the court's lunch

• DateWednesday, October 4, 2017

Staff at federal courts work-to-rule ... Leaflets to litigants ... Unhappiness mounts ... No pay rise for four years ... Registry merger ... Sackings ... Difficulty crossing a picket line  

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