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Berlusconi's dream world ... 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 ... Read more >> 

"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." 

President Trump, asked by a reporter at the White House how he was holding up personally after the loss of his friend Charlie Kirk ... September 11, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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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 >> 


 

 

 

Friday
Jul102020

Noisy statues

The purges of Savonarola ... The Lubyanka ... Lt James Cook ... Fremantle Park ... Magdalene College ... Procrustes takes us on an historical magic carpet ride ... Statues and their threat to peace, order and good government ... How to manage dissension caused by images in bronze and stone 

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Thursday
Jul092020

Canberra taxi drivers are dangerous men

The ashes of Dyson Heydon's standing scattered far and wide ... We're ashamed ... Tally of the catastrophe ... Retreat to the club ... No more blind eyes ... Fresh inquiries and investigations rattle some nerves ... Character, law, and judging ... Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports 

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Friday
Jul032020

Lawn Order

Bulletin from the Bear-Pit ... Recasting the top job at LECC ... Blowfly Bruce produces questionable reasons ... Crime and insanity ... Tendency evidence gets tweaked ... Stand by for the Personal Injury Commission ... Answers on notice ... Janek Drevikovsky reports from Macquarie Street 

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Friday
Jun262020

Dicey - updates

LATE EXTRA ... A family take-home guide to fresh fallouts from the Dyson Heydon revelations ... Heydon's harassments ... Civil and criminal possibilities ... Who knew what, when ... Gleeson keeps schtum ... Previous cover-ups at the top ... Sex harassment policies getting a hasty work-over ... Strange wrinkles ... Ginger Snatch updates the drama 

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Wednesday
Jun242020

"You don't know what kind of creeps are out there"

Dicey Heydon ... Time and tide in the affairs of men ... Industrial scale sexual harassment from the High & Mighty ... "Inadvertent and unintended" ... Who knew what and when ... More to come ... The masked man ... From Ginger Snatch, who associates with judges 

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Tuesday
Jun232020

The man who couldn't see

Dyson's demise ... Fresh developments ... Civil and criminal cases in the wind ... AG says it's up to the High Court to handle any demand for compensation ... Field day for trade unions ... What was he thinking? ... Seismic social changes passed unnoticed ... Dangers lie in wait for Heydon's intellectual legacy ... Artemus Jones comments  

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Wednesday
Jun172020

Judge of the moment

Perram J in top form ... Cooking on the Central Coast ... Employment law ... Missing wages ... Exemplary amateur conduct called into question ... Assistance from a non-practitioner ... Unhelpful ... Beastly threats ... Small case, big fry ... Remarks sent to the Law Society ... Janek Drevikovsky reports 

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Tuesday
Jun162020

The republic in flames

Trump has found his Roy Cohn ... The Pussy Grabber waves a bible ... Sacking inspectors general en masse ... Grifters united ... Attempts to politicise the armed services ... Roger Fitch files from Washington 

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Tuesday
Jun162020

Read all about it

Law shop disquiet over pay and leave during the plague ... Other shops pressing galley slaves for an early return to work ... Homework not up to scratch ... On tap for pressing matters ... Street assemblies in court ... Revisiting 1970s student radicalism ... The Chestnut reappears ... Theodora reports 

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