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Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs … Inquiry into racism, hate and violence … Private submission from NT barrister John Lawrence SC
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Long tail of the law … Silencing Silenced … Where’s Linda’s loot? … Faruqi v Hanson … MacInnes v Wilson … Dirty bathwater … The High Court beckons … Angus Taylor snared in Catholic mafia’s web … ICAC gets close to the flame
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Jonathan Sumption … On judges keeping their noses out of government policy
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How bad is Trump, really? … Crimes at the heart of presidential power … Shakedowns, extortions, insider trading, cash for pardons, revenge … And here comes Trump’s enabler, Todd Blanche … Breaking into the backdoor of the Treasury in broad daylight … Roger Fitch with his Letter from Washington
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Alan Jones Trial … Backgrounder from The Saturday Paper … The all-important opening session … Not to be missed
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To catch a thief … Self-defence in Italy … Outcry over jail term for man defending his property … Death on the footpath … Right-wing politicians vie for the cause … Pardon not appropriate … Politicisation of criminal justice … Our Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports
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“The No.1 priority is to beat the communist Labor government. We’ve got to be honest. If there’s an opportunity to form a government [with One Nation] to beat the communists, then we’ll do it. That shouldn’t be controversial.”
Liberal Party frontbencher Senator Andrew Bragg, July 27, 2026
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Patrick Mullins … Justinian’s interview with biographer Patrick Mullins … Political profiles … Crime and scandal in rackety nineteenth-century Sydney … His latest book The Stained Man is a triumph … The story of the lawyer-hero, the fall from grace, and the campaign for restoration… On The Couch
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Snouts in government trough … Everyone likes a good story about lawyers’ fees … We’ve reached back to March 1994, to the days of hard copy, and found the money shelled out by the AGS to lawyers in the 1993 financial year … Many went on to fame and bigger fortune … Justinian’s Archive, March 1994
... Read more >>Judicial schmoozing at private airport parlours … A murky form of transparency … Backlash to Law Society revamp in Canberra … More litigation offshore for decamped orthopod … Another strike out for prominent ART member … Reports from Courtney Docket, Gang Gang, and Theodora
Aziz zizzing at the tribunal … Top Hobart mover and shaker birched upstairs … Dreyfus lets fly on conduct of election by Liberals in neighbouring seat … Freedom Boy scrapes home by 175 votes … Judges from the Land Down Under serving on courts in dictatorial satrapies … Plenty of coin … Theodora with distressing news
Bar groper spanked … Christmas comes but once a year … Grovel and fine … Alan Blow saddles up in Darwin … Big croc wrangler case … Egg collection scrambled … Strange suppression order … From our Local Field Agents
Geoffrey Nettle and Gary Hevey back to do the Robobedt corruption inquiry … Whopping fees for nine months in the saddle … Cleaning up after Major Gen. Brereton’s messy conflicts … The Lehrmann litigation factory in full production as key players rush for reputation repair … Enough is enough … Overlooked silken applicant David Smallbone wants to snitch Albo’s seat
Party allies selected for judicial elevation in Qld … Justice Jenni Hill’s brother … More entries for the Golden Tortoise award … Federal Court muddles the maths, again … Theodora reports
Waltzing with Walter … Federal Court leakage … Barrister tells bar council she’s guilty … Theodora reports
Federal Courts’ electronic case management scheme bleeding time and money … Legal advice from a chatbot … Lee goes into the Lions’ Den … Live-streaming may be too “accessible” … Tassie silks wonder what happened to their royal plumage … Theodora with the latest
Multiple references from their Highnesses didn’t cut the mustard for silk applicant … Behind the scenes with the selectors … AAT visa decision scuttled because delegate’s reasons were scissor and pasted … Looking for a new ICAC CEO … Basement rendezvous at the Lubyanka … Theodora reports