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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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Letter from London ... Voting at Australia House ... Polling at the Vatican ... Holding down three public service jobs at once ... LibDems want to tone down the noise ... How to foul-up a cover-up ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt on the case in Blighty ... Read more >>
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 >>
Barely Legal • Tuesday, November 9, 2021 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
City Desk • Monday, November 1, 2021 Spin campaign runs out of puff ... Demonstration of the compelling need for ICAC ... Cornered by the evidence ... Terror of the tapes ... Daryl's key to the front door ... Fresh interpretation of the ministerial code ... The need for secrecy ... Artemus Jones has been following the ICAC hearings
I Once Met ... • Monday, November 1, 2021 Discussion on mental health during Greek law conference ... Cruising the Aegean in dress shoes ... Wig and gown for tribunal hearings ... Dull, boring presentation from the judge ... Question from the rear of the room ... Tom Kelly remembers
Barely Legal • Saturday, October 30, 2021 Barely Legal has moved to one of the great colleges in the green and pleasant land ... His first encounter with the college toffs ... Important to get the language right
Goings On ..., Theodora • Monday, October 25, 2021 The Banksia retirement home ... Bar Prez's warning about excessive fees ... VCAT's building list in disarray ... Cases sent to the never-never ... Tasmanian government's High Court strategy - two is better than one ... Ron Brierley knows nothing ... Anthony Mason's mid-nonagenarian celebrations get jammed ... Theodora reports on the latest Goings On
I Once Met ... • Sunday, October 24, 2021 Journalist and champion swimmer Alex Mitchell in the pool with the President of Uganda ... The lap that Field Marshal Amin won ... Lord of All The Beasts of the Earth ... Lured into an interview by flattery ... Rifling the presidential desk ... Bodies in the lake ... Scary time in Kampala
On The Couch • Friday, October 22, 2021 Jo Dyer was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when she became an advocate for her deceased friend Kate - after Kate's accusations of rape against then attorney general Christian Porter were posthumously made public ... The theatre, film, television and festival producer is On The Couch