Legislative Council teams up with DPP Dowling … Breakthrough for apprehended bias claim against judge … Multiple parties in the fray before the NSWCA … Article 9 and institutional integrity of the court … Unnecessary use of Latin … Mae Milne sorts it out
Reputational tatters
City Desk Thursday, February 26, 2026Planet Janet disgraced in Press Council findings … Victory parade for her arch enemy … Umpire blamed and attacked … Dishing it out … Thin-skins try to rescue the day … Dishonest journalism … From Justinian’s City Desk
Welcome to Country
City Desk Wednesday, February 4, 2026The tangled dispute between District Court judges and the NSW DPP … Recusal application … Parliamentary privilege … Media leak … External investigation … Provocative submissions … Denial of procedural fairness … Mae Milne ties the threads together
Administrative review quicksand
City Desk Wednesday, December 10, 2025Musicologist whistleblower complains about the ANU management … Deloitte reports … Ombudsman examines Deloitte … Procedural fairness … University uncooperative … The silent treatment … Non-compliance … Ombudsman wimps … Mae Milne reporting
My Role in Gough’s Downfall
City Desk Wednesday, November 5, 2025Scoops 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 … From Richard Ackland – Reporter-at-Large
Crocodile tears
City Desk Saturday, October 25, 2025Death for Top End pedestrians … Differential charges for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal driving offenders … NT Chief Justice enters the fray in the case of a manifestly inadequate sentence for a non-Aboriginal hoon … Fresh emails surface … Buffalo Bruce in Darwin has the story
Top End CJ hits back in hit-and-run fiasco
City Desk Wednesday, October 15, 2025NT Justice Department meddles with the CJ’s independence … Media statements from the court have to be vetted and approved by the AG’s Department … Michael Grant CJ livid … Mandarin birched in feisty correspondence … Buffalo Bruce reports from Darwin
Nice work, if you can get it
City Desk Wednesday, September 17, 2025Cleaning up the Robodebt corruption mess … High Court retiree Geoffrey Nettle given more time and more money to come up with a result … Lavish top-up … Fallout from Corruption Concealment Commission’s mishandling of the reference … Mountainous workload … Tender is the night