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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Pastoral care ... Election free content … Cardinal sins … The Pope leaves behind the wreckage of his predatory priests … The law keeps victims in check … Litigation loopholes … Latest cases … Catholic Church’s battle to keep the money ... Read on >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... And departs ... Another struck-off Cardinal re-emerges ... Blowflies in the Conclave ointment ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... Too much "reform" ... Berlusconi legacy ... Referendum on the way ... Constitutional court inflames the Meloni regime with decision on boat people ... Insults galore ... Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Friday
Nov192021

Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama

NSW Supreme Court says prosecutor engaged in "vile" behaviour ... Persecution of step-mother ... False accusation of murder ... Unreliable evidence ... Discreditable conduct by a lawyer ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

Winning ways

Rockhampton solicitor goes down ... Drunken offering of a "lazy quid" to the constables ... Corruption ... Adornment to the legal caper ... Offer of cash not seen as a joke ... A real charmer ... Foul mouthed bikie lawyer sentenced to the clink ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Thursday
Nov182021

An excess of venality

Guns everywhere for everyone - Supreme Court to decide ... Judiciary stuffed with Trumpists ... Bannon mired in Congressional contempt ... Insurrection of January 6 ... Ex-president consumed by litigation ... From Roger Fitch, Our Man in Washington 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

Naughty Nathan

Rabid lawyers fired-up by public health orders ... Freedom ... Sovereignty ... Court ruling claimed to invite anarchy ... Warfare among litigation crowdfunders ... Excitable foot soldiers ... Jeremy Bentham on rights and public peace ... Alan Zheng reports 

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Tuesday
Nov162021

I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen

The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975 

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Friday
Nov122021

Vital snippets

No mug for Cash ... Simon bucks High Court tradition ... Defrocked barrister goes into the consulting business ... Deselecting Black jurors ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Nov102021

Forward to the '50s

Update ... New-Old guard sweeps back at Vic Bar's election ... Conservative candidates with the big how-to-vote brochures ... More of the same ... Elites swiping other elites ... Fury at pandemic management legislation ... Stasi in charge ... Career crippling mojitos at Tory silk's gaff  ... Shadow AG's crashes his career ... Phew 

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Tuesday
Nov092021

Cough ... Cough

Fresh letter from the Spires ... Cacophony of coughing at students' matriculation ceremony ... Viral spray covers everything in Covid ravaged landscape ... Shift work for the vice-chancellor ... Barely Legal reports 

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Friday
Nov052021

That's Life

It's Double Bay, darling ... Woolworths ... Harris Farm ... Fighting for prime retail patch ... Law firm's negligence ... Maddocks in the frame for $13 million ... Record damages 

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