Albania ahoy … Save the flamingoes from Jared and Ivanka … Legislation rescues developers from litigation … Prime examples from WA and SA … Next step, legislation by press release … Procrustes files
Notorious RBJ
PROCRUSTES Friday, June 5, 2026Procrustes abroad catches the news about Justice Beech-Jones and associated pile on … Griffith debating society captured by antediluvians … Endless attacks on Mabo show the real motivations … Piddington and executive screening … Call out the bench stacking brigade
Yindjibarndi v Forrest
PROCRUSTES Thursday, May 14, 2026Poor Twiggy … $150 million payable to native title holders after reaping $17 billion from Solomon iron ore … It pays to flout the protocols … The West’s tradition of doing the Blackfella down … Procrustes vents
Pity the children
PROCRUSTES Tuesday, February 24, 2026Robert Frost, Mary Gaudron, and Milan Kundera help Procrustes construct a better policy for dealing with the ISIS children … Bus turnaround 50 miles from base camp … International law and Canberra law … Scrubbing brush applied to the history of family law reform
In Bed With Bunnings
PROCRUSTES Friday, February 6, 2026Clear felling the law … Biodiversity and Conservation … Precautionary approval … Kamikaze litigation … Ministerial exemptions … Killing endangered eagles and butterflies courtesy of Murray Watt … Procrustes fumes
Graveyard of the vanities
PROCRUSTES Thursday, January 22, 2026Rusty Crowe as Herman Goering … The stars at Nuremberg … Justice Robert Jackson … David Maxwell-Fife … Herman cheats the gallows … Emptiness at Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden … Florence on the Torrens … Regrettable cancellations in the name of unanimity … Procrustes files
Fingers crossed
PROCRUSTES Friday, January 2, 2026Glacial action on Islamic hate “lectures” … Plenty of warnings … Amendments to the Commonwealth Criminal Code left unutilised … Procrustes asks, Where’s Mark Dreyfus when you need him?
From the Golden West
PROCRUSTES Wednesday, September 24, 2025Procrustes makes a State visit to Perth … Columnist incandescent about white veterans from the Southern Rhodesian army of parading in Kings Park … Celebration for an outlawed colonial outpost … Multiculturalism in the rear … Adelaide taxis .. And other complaints … Nazism next .. Grump, grump