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• Unmasting Chester Porter.
• Sofronoff-Albrechtsen .. The tryst that ended in tears.
• Gina Rinohart’s labyrinthine litigation.
• Dicey Hayden covers his tracks in redacted job application speech.
• Factional follies clear the path for ministerial non-entities.
• Disasters at the Defamatorium.
• Behind the scenes at The Dismissal.
• The nasty underbelly of “Freedom Boy” Wilson.
• Secret correspondence … Mortimer CJ to a complaining litigant.
• Murdoch hacks do the typing for the perpetually miserable Linda Reynolds.
Daddy Dearest
Books Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Life at home with Chester Porter … Great silk in Gutsy Girls revelation … An unpredictable family story … Love, poetry and sisterhood … Behind the monkey mask … Book review by Worm
Sofronoff stripped bare
Corruption Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Deceit … Betrayal … Drumgold hung out to dry as a result of Sofronoff-Albrechtsen information “tryst” … Latest derailment of conspiracies about the prosecution of manosphere darling, Bruce Lehrmann … Derangement syndrome … Sofronoff’s “serious corruption” … Devastation among devoted Banana Benders
Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart’s Bleak House
Bar Talk Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs … Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation … Allegations of fraud against the family trust …Manoeuvring … Tax “advice” … Shifting vesting date … Money, the root of unhappiness … Anthony-James Kanaan reports
From the cutting-room floor
City Desk Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Handsy Heydon goes to Perth … Celebrity tour … Conferenceville … Dicey’s job application speech from 2002 … Other High Court judges mocked as “vegetables” … Mason CJ ridiculed … Speech bowdlerised for public consumption … Courage of conviction MIA … From our National Affairs Correspondent
Home duties
Polly Peck Tuesday, July 15, 2025
The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus … Behind the scenes … Bastardry among the brothers … Unfinished business … Family law, privacy … Considerable policy and legislative results … Here’s Michelle Rowland as AG … What are her priors? … Polly Peck reports from the Gallery
News from the defamatorium
City Desk Wednesday, September 3, 2025
End of the golden era … Reputational warriors rack up huge bills … Unhappy outcomes … Costs eat the damages … Al Muderis, Reynolds, Lehrmann, Roberts-Smith … Statutory tort of privacy to the rescue … Finding holes in the media exemption dyke … O.F. Wilde reports
It’s all too much
Goings On …, Theodora Saturday, October 18, 2025
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
My Role in Gough’s Downfall
City Desk Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Scoops 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
Grin and bear it
Sandy Groper Saturday, November 8, 2025
Champing at the bit … Plodding through the individual steps in the litigation process … No evident inefficiency or delay … Anxieties aplenty … Mortimer CJ replies to complaint … Lengthy correspondence … Peril for judges posting on social media … No recusal, only refusal … Sandy Groper reports
When too much is never enough
Polly Peck Sunday, November 23, 2025
Losing the plot … Fearless Murdoch hacks have the egg beaters on full speed … Three-pronged salvo … Campaign Linda … Feeding the reptiles … Where’s the NoDoze? … Higgins settlement … Reynolds v The Commonwealth… Polly Peck reports