Budget pains

Uncategorized    Tuesday, August 8, 2017

From where is the extra $6 million for NSW CLCs coming? … South Australian bar accounts in limbo … Eight months late the new ICAC is born

 

Not so settled

Uncategorized    Thursday, August 3, 2017

Traditional Aboriginal owners want a nuclear waste dump on their NT land, plus quite a bit of money … Move to unstitch Commonwealth settlement with neighbouring community, which is opposed to the nuclear dump … Back to court … Top End reporter Subeta Vimalarajah follows the action 

 

Much ado

Uncategorized    Monday, July 31, 2017

Injunction against Law Society dropped … Feast of St Ignatius proceeds uninterrupted … Taxpayers subsidising VicBar’s portrait collection … Opinions on High attracts tetchy comments … Top End is hyper-normalised … Down with Darwin … Goings On with Theodora 

 

Euthanasia’s slippery slopes

Uncategorized    Friday, July 28, 2017

Victorian legislation on voluntary assisted dying … Bundle of safeguards to appease opponents … How the religious right holds back the popular will … Tight conscience vote expected … Earning “Action Points” from Father Lyle and the ACL … Madeline White reports from the front line 

 

RIP Rofe

Uncategorized    Thursday, July 27, 2017

David Rofe QC … A complex life … Mother in sharkskin … Cases and right wing causes … Bar room insults … Lofty correspondence … Decay and despair 

 

The taxonomy of professional misconduct

Uncategorized    Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Those wretched BASs … A barrister drowning in tax, tax and more tax … Drinking … Health issues … General disorganisation … The full nine yards … Peta Leigh reports 

 

No Paris hat for these Harris pats

Uncategorized    Friday, July 21, 2017

(Apologies to Cole Porter) … Leverhulme assembles the data to try and make sense of Rolf Harris’s criminal trials … Three trials … Guilty of 12 indecent assaults … 5 years, 9 months in pokey … Lengthy jury deliberations … London Calling 

 

Falling foul of the junta

Uncategorized    Thursday, July 20, 2017

Top appeals judge in Thailand fails anticipated elevation to the country’s number one judicial position … Drug cases and anti-corruption decisions thwarted his career path …  From Alex Mitchell in Bangkok