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Postcard from London ... Summertime - And the living' is easy ... Votes for 16-year olds ... Paralegal's theft by pen ... Spy helping British intelligence from his job at Border Force ... Super-injunction comes out of the shadows ... Feed them strawberries and cream ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >> 

"Where are the glossy magazine spreads traversing what Reynolds and Brown went through? Where is the march for justice in support of these two brave women? Where is the apology from Gallagher and Wong? Where is the inquiry into the $2.4m of taxpayer money we now know was paid by the Department of Finance on the basis of false statements?"

Linda Reynolds is the victim here, not Brittany Higgins who was raped on Reynold's ministerial couch ... From Janet Albrechtsen, leader of the Reynolds' cheer squad ... The Australian, August 29, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 

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News from the Defamatorium ... End of the golden era ... Reputational warriors rack up huge bills ... Unhappy outcomes ... Costs eat the damages ... Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann ... Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue ... Finding holes in the media exemption dyke ... O.F. Wilde reports ... Read more >> 

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The Tamil Times ... The corruption wars ... Blitzkrieg from The Australian's legal affairs man ... Campaigns to sink ICAC and 18C ... Battles lost in the trenches ... Where are they now? ... Extravagant fulminations ... From Justinian's Archive, April 8, 2017 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Thursday
Aug252022

Murdoch v Crikey

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Starting gun fired ... Ticklish media baron sues independent news publisher ... "Unindicted co-conspirator" in Trump's crimes ... No-one likes to be pushed around by a billionaire bully with an overblown sense of entitlement ... News from The Defamatorium 

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Thursday
Aug252022

The judge in an unstable world

• DateThursday, August 25, 2022

Max Shanahan interviews José Matos, President of the International Association of Judges ... Judges hanging on under autocratic regimes ... Role of the IAJ ... Defence of the judiciary ... Fleeing the Taliban 

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Wednesday
Aug242022

Dreyfus' affairs

• DateWednesday, August 24, 2022

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and his agenda ... Massive reform agenda after years of neglect and paralysis ... Overtones of Lionel Murphy's busy era as AG ... National security ...Whistleblowers ... Human rights ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Aug182022

Bigots' Corner

• DateThursday, August 18, 2022

Peach Melba with the latest from Yarraside ... Crude notice crisis ... Lift poster sent to the Bureau ... Christian judge from the Saloon comes to the Athenaeun Club ... Learn how not to sexually harasses anyone and win CPD points 

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Tuesday
Aug162022

The wilder shores of contempt

• DateTuesday, August 16, 2022

Senior bar figures and solicitors in the dock for contempt ... Alleged breach of suppression order ... Shoe on the attorney general's other foot ... Skirmishes with a long history ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Aug162022

It's fixed

• DateTuesday, August 16, 2022

UPDATED ... Appointment of new ICAC commissioners in NSW ... Widely regarded Supreme Court nominee overlooked as chief commissioner in favour of an undistinguished District Court judge ... Interviewed after the decision about the successful candidate had already been made ... Appointment process riddled with oddities 

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Monday
Aug152022

Primary colours

• DateMonday, August 15, 2022

Democracy US-style ... November elections where Big Lie candidates abound ... Key states in the grip of Trump-nominated electoral officials ... Hundreds of new state laws to reshape the vote ... GOP plan for permanent minority government, with assistance from the Supreme Court ... Trouble in wait for Republicans' Pravda ... Roger Fitch's reports from our Washington bureau 

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Sunday
Aug142022

Prima Facie

• DateSunday, August 14, 2022

Sexual assault and the law ... Rape (alleged) by a member of chambers ... Suzie Miller's play brought to the screen ... Jodie Comer is chilling - and thrilling ... Scorching indictment of the law .... Miss Lumière at the National Theatre (Live) 

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Friday
Aug122022

Sisyphean tasks

• DateFriday, August 12, 2022

Judges and their impartiality ... The long neglected territory of complaints about federal judges ... Teaching humility ... Gingering up appointments ... Data collection to pin point judicial outliers ... Max Shanahan gets to grips with the bold work of the ALRC 

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