Silvana Olivetti

NEWS

Spilled Ink newsletter … A first-hand examination of ICAC’s inquisition of Catholics, as more and more believers are burnt at the stake … Over at Commissioner Bell’s truth-finding inquiry, worthy citizens are demanding that it roll on indeterminably, with government figures dragged before it for a good flogging … Where will it end?

POLITICS MEDIA LAW SOCIETY

Divine Retribution … Epiphany … Catholic sinners at ICAC … Agitation for the Bell Commission never to end … The fraught business of defining antisemitism … Conflation of Jews with Israel … Richard Flanagan takes the stand … Cathy Wilcox challenges the tropes brigade … Old Rupe gets the hagiography he pays for

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EDITOR’S CHOICE

Articles, Opinions, Notions & Cases

The Australian

Well fed Queensland silk ignored countless letters from the ATO and only coughed up $770,000 after the tax man started proceedings against him
Financial Review

Salon de Refuses ... NSW barristers who unsuccessfully apply for silk each year ... And which Sydney chambers are the most infused with silks? ... Data assembled by AFR and Justinian
Financial Review

Linda Reynolds upset that her mediation with the Commonwealth has been postponed ... "I will continue my fight for transparency, the truth and justice. I will never give up"
The Australian

Parliamentary review of NSW Law Society's monopoly control of solicitors indemnity insurance ... LawCover in the frame
The Saturday Paper

Alan Jones goes to Mark Foys

Festival of Dangerous Ideas … Richard Flanagan on Israel, Gaza, and war crimes

JUSTINIAN COLUMNISTS

Tree hugging … Procrustes brings news from the forests … Old growth logger spills ink on the Financial Review’s dead trees … It’s good for the trees to cut down native forests … Arguments in search of logic … Leadbeater’s Possum and great wildlife litigation … The importance of woodland hollows … Sugar Gliders strike back

NEWS SNIP

Justinian is taking a spring break … The editorial team is collecting some interesting material and will be back from September 20 … Please hold tight

JUSTINIAN’S BLOGGERS

Feet of clay … New venture for the Dice Man … Another book under wraps … Who will publish? … No redemption through charitable works … The judgment delays crusade … Theodora reports

FLATULENCE

“Good thing about Angus Taylor was, he didn’t pretend he hadn’t fallen off the bike. He accepted that he did fall off the bike but he got straight back on it and that’s what you want in a potential prime minister, someone who just gets on with things.”

Former PM Tony Abbott’s comment about Opposition Leader Angus Taylor falling off his bike on day one of the Polly Peddle charity ride. August 25, 2026

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JUSTINIAN FEATURETTES

The Whistling Wind … Whistleblowing … Opaque explanations to PID complaints on FCA National Judicial Registrar appointments … Skewed process … Favouritism … The lingering sore … Public Service Commission and Ombudsman drop the bundle … Senator’s detailed questions on notice … NACC flubs it … Courtney Docket reports

JUSTINIAN’S ARCHIVE

Reverse Olfactory Reference Disorder … Clients can’t be smelt, even when they pong … The GFC brought on with the valuable assistance of commercial lawyers … They may not understand the documents … But they understand how to bill … Tulkinghorn on involuntary inertia disorder … From Justinian’s Archive, August 20, 2010

Berlusconi’s dream world

Silvana Olivetti Thursday, September 11, 2025

Revenge politics in Italy … Independence of prosecutors under attack … Constitutional assault … The years of lead … Investigations reopened into old murders … High drama at Milan’s Leoncavallo … Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports

Postcard from Rome

Silvana Olivetti Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Judges on strike over constitutional changes … Independence of prosecutors at stake … 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

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