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"I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's going to be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it'll get done very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much." 

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The plague of amnesia ... Memory and its failures ... Remembering to forget things ... Failure to take account of remissions in sentencing ... Relevant memories of experienced and inexperience judges ... An experienced judge writes ... Justinian's Archive, November 12, 2004 ... Read more >> 

 

 

 

Saturday
Feb122022

Great stinks

• DateSaturday, February 12, 2022

No planning, please, we're neoliberals ... Puerile advice from the AFR ... Forbidden ideas that have to be shot down by wizened press oligarch's dancing bears ... Morrison's leaden routine versus the spritz of Boris Johnson ... Procrustes files 

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Wednesday
Feb092022

A brief history of abortion reform in NSW

• DateWednesday, February 9, 2022

Campaigning barrister and politician ... The Heatherbrae case with Aaron Levine ... Meaning of unlawfully in the Crimes Act ... Arrangement between police and abortion campaigners ... In 2019 NSW became the last state to decriminalise abortion ... Tom Kelly writes 

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Tuesday
Feb082022

Glorious Accession Day

• DateTuesday, February 8, 2022

A nation rejoices ... Young Tories at the Dreaming Spires are beside themselves ... Theresa May sets the gala dinner ablaze ... Tories in a pickle ... Sunak v Truss ... What would Nanny say? ... Patriotism awakes ... Barely Legal reports from the Dart 

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Friday
Feb042022

Fresh hell

, • DateFriday, February 4, 2022

Silk gets unreserved by Map eatery ... Brain drain at Syd's Bar 'n' Grill ... The ACT's reserve bin ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Facts and figments

• DateWednesday, February 2, 2022

Sorry Sandy ... Judicial friends take divergent paths ... "Plainly wrong" ... "High esteem" ... Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan ... Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate ... Comity and "principle" ... FCFC judges at sixes and sevens ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Wednesday
Feb022022

Year in the rear

• DateWednesday, February 2, 2022

2021 down the gurgler ... Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we're entirely drowning in 2022 ... Glimpses of Justinian's restless news reports ... A year of lawyers and the law 

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Tuesday
Jan182022

Rules are Rules

• DateTuesday, January 18, 2022

A nation without a public memory ... Coalition distractions ... Discretions for au pairs and refugees ... Open and shut ... Labor's great silence ... Border Farce ... Indefinite detention ... Hiding under the skirts of a shambolic federal system ... Procrustes opines 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Stealing the presidency

• DateSunday, January 16, 2022

Murdoch discovered America's weak point ... The roots of electoral disfigurement ... Rigging the vote long into the future ... Supreme Court's role in political corruption ... Military prosecutions for civilian crimes ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington 

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Sunday
Jan162022

Bureau de Spank's last hurrah for 2021

• DateSunday, January 16, 2022

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone ... From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne ... Public birching ... Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose ... Eamonn Murphy reports 

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