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Holding onto Hope: Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ... Manouvering ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >> 

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Party time for Dicey ... Heydon's book - a pathway to rehabilitation ... The predatory man and the clever intellect - all wrapped up in the one person ... Academic tome and cancel agenda ... Despite the plaudits the record of abuse doesn't vanish ... Book launch with young associates at a safe distance ... Procrustes thinks out loud ... Read more >> 

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Conclave Part 2: Return of the Prodigal ... Vatican fraudster returns ... Fly in the Conclave ointment ... Claims to have been forgiven by Pope Francis ... Doubts about his entitlement to vote ... What can go wrong? ... Silvana Olivetti reports from Rome ... Read more >> 

"We're in unchartered territory here. A Pope hasn't died before during an Australian election campaign."  

Jane Norman, National Affairs Correspondent, ABC News ... April 21, 2025 ... Read more flatulence ... 


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Letter from Rome ... Judges on strike ... 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 ... Read more >> 


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Tea is for Tippy ... Life of a tiffstaff ... Bright, ambitious and, when it comes to the crucial things, hopeless ... Milking the glory of the gig ...  Introducing Tippy, our new blogger filing from within the concrete cage at Queens Square ... From Justinian's Archive, March 15, 2010 ...  Read more >> 


 

 

Saturday
Oct192019

I am woman - hear me roar

At the Feminist Legal Clinic, Gudrun Willcocks meets Anna Kerr, a different kind of lawyer ... Matriarchy takes on the patriarchy ... Wages for wives would see a reduction in domestic violence ... The outsider working on the inside ... Discrimination and motherhood ... A bandaid service at the Family Court 

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Sunday
Oct132019

Hale Spiderwoman

11 out of 11 ... UK Supremes on a null and void prorogation ... Dissolution and prorogation: compare and contrast ... Judicial review of the prerogative power of the crown ... Principle of parliamentary sovereignty ... Her Maj the cypher ... Welcome back Sir Edward Coke ... Procrustes explains 

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Saturday
Oct122019

Correspondence from lofty, and other, sources

Waterstreet Down ... Slippery Pete on giving Tasmanian silks an option ... Morrison's gush at the Australian embassy in Washington ... Our investigations department riffles through the rubbish bins 

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Friday
Oct112019

An afterlife for political flops

The poor old Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam and jetsam of the Liberal Party ... Cronyism ... Peter Dutton's "Australian values" ... The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth ... Investigative reporting by Inq laid bare the extent of the political rort 

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Monday
Oct072019

Order of the Silken Quoll

Rebranding The Map's briefs ... Scrabbling for the royal garter gets underway in Tasmania ... Clutching at illusory glitter ... Peddling the same old malarkey ... Status and money raise their unattractive heads 

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Friday
Oct042019

Drugs, money and death

The brutality of the drug business in Columbia ... From the directors who brought us Embrace of the Serpent comes Birds of Passage ... America, the greedy satan ... Complex codes of honour ... Sumptuous and gripping ... Peace and war ... Miss Lumière reviews the spectacle

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Tuesday
Oct012019

Counting heads

Determining the number of real District Court judges ... Numbers that never vary, depending on who is included or excluded ... Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking ... Online application policy - one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests ... Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG's administration 

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Friday
Sep272019

Tell tale tapes

Queensland bar ... Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership ... Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact ... Inexperience ... Promises not to practice family law again ... Penny dropped late in the process ... Out comes the damp lettuce leaf ... Ghost of Rose Mary Wood 

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Thursday
Sep262019

Too much rubber chicken

Rekindling the culture wars on museums ... Remembering the Howardistas' attack on Dawn Casey ... Political donations - a problem too far ... Corporates snapping up democracy at bargain basement prices ... Political intervention driven by ideology and money ... Procrustes explains it all 

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