Perusing the Lawsons website, my better half asks me if I need a walnut pedestal shaving stand. No thanks, I reply, I do not shave my walnut pedestals . . . www.lawsons.com.au/auction-lot/...

It appears that the #auslaw firm previously known as Thomson Geer has decided that it is time to get off the Geer: www.thomsons.com.au

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There is a lot to be said for the proposition that any guidance to lawyers about AI should not start with a default position of trust: natlawreview.com/article/amer... #auslaw

If you know anything about the theft of all these bees, police would no doubt appreciate it if you would pick up the phone and give them a buzz: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Alright then, ICSID arbitration fans, it looks like the contretemps about the Port of Darwin lease is off to a Tribunal: theconversation.com/chinese-comp... #auslaw

Yes, it certainly is white men who are the most in need of anti-discrimination protection . . . www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Whoops - if you are a director trying to get leave to appear on behalf of a corporation on the basis of your legal qualification, probs best not to include hallucinated cases in your submissions seeking leave: classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sino... #auslaw

Well, it’s not like I am going to buying the gross red capsicums, am I?

This does make sense if you judge it in terms of rank political expediency - Coalition parties probably have a better chance of winning Farrer back from One Nation at the next election than they do of winning it back from an incumbent Indy: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Waiter, there seems to have been some mistake - I ordered the smoked salmon, not the coked salmon: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Excellent article on AI and the future of lawyers from the Dean (and Associate Dean (Education)) of Sydney Law School: www.smh.com.au/education/ai... #auslaw

If I was the NSW Premier and I had just been handed a shellacking by the Court of Appeal, I would probably cool my jets on new anti-protest laws, but that's why I am not Chris Minns: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auslaw

Or any vinyl habit at all, really - better to take up a cheaper habit, like heroin

As the old saying goes, risk is hard to price, but gets easier to price the closer you get to 100%. Invading Iran pushed the chance of the Straits closing much closer to 100% - good work, Peter Navarro and team . . .

Website T&C says "This ticket is sold by Bluesfest Enterprises PTY LTD (ABN 40 674 992 440) on behalf of Bluesfest Byron Bay Pty Ltd (ABN 51 650 115 709) who is responsible for the event." Only the first company appears to have had a liquidator appointed, hmmmm #auslaw

This is fascinating - what amounts to a non-party costs order (plus $10miliion in punitives) sought against ChatGPT for enabling meritless claims of litigant in person: www.reuters.com/legal/legali... #auslaw

Yet another Australian lawyer rumbled for handing up submissions with hallucinated cases (7) and non-existent quotes (12) (this time in the Vic Ct of App): www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view... #auslaw

Great work. Well done Angus: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

I am never a fan of using "terminated" to describe the end of employment (yes, you may be terminating the contract, but you can try to make it sound like you are not putting the employee to death), but at least it is better than "offboarding" - see [8]: #auslaw www.fwc.gov.au/documents/de...

As a junior lawyer, I was given the sage advice that "if you write a letter of longer than 3 pages to your opponent, you have already lost". I have just been instructed in an appeal where my client lost this in this manner, although the other side should also have lost in the same way . . . #auslaw

Wednesday's cartoon in The Mercury Newspaper: Jon Kudelka helped me get my first cartooning job at The Mercury. He also showed me how to be quick-witted and fearless. I was in a constant state of joke-envy over his cartoons. I'm gonna miss that feeling, but more than that, I'm gonna miss my friend.

Agreed. Devastating news. Vale Kudelka

As they say in the classics, this is a frood who really knows where her towel is: www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/weather...

NSW Bill "abolishing" good character as a sentencing factor (although it looks as though references may still be admissible for non-character purposes, like evidence of contrition): www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/... #auslaw

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins notes that the average American can save 50% on their food budget by eating every other day.

If you sit on the report claiming that wind farms are a "threat to national security" for a month before taking any action, you shouldn't be too surprised if a judge doesn't think that the threat doesn't amount to much

'But, let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion” ' this does not miss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What might be described as a mildly truncated timetable given that the Bill runs to 144 pages #auslaw

And, it appears, less major economies such as Australia

This is such awful news - we had grey-headed flying foxes in our palm tree over Christmas and they are fascinating creatures (even if their table manners could use some work)

This piece I wrote for the Conversation four years ago is still relevant today. Stay cool Aotearoa! theconversation.com/new-zealand-...

I don't recall victim-survivors, or indeed institutions, trying to argue for a veto right over commissioners to the Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission, but I suppose there just wasn't that much self-entitlement around back then to do so

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

"The timing, conduct and terms of ref of any RC should be structured so as not to interfere with ongoing criminal proceedings"- but no practical suggestion as to how that can be done in a timely way. Awful word salad from the Law Council and an awful position: lawcouncil.au/media/media-... #auslaw

Trav should be thinking that he only needs another 395 runs in this Test to overtake DG Bradman for the record in a 5-test Ashes series . . .

It seems to keep working for them. It is just a coincidence there are so many News alum at decision making level of those other outlets

Very disappointing to see the ABC taking dictation from plaintiff lawyers (especially when that dictation is wrong - the Royal Commission expressly recommended against making vicarious liability retrospective): www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12... #auslaw

While in Opposition, Albanese backed the Jewish community against the LNP govt who tried to undermine them by weakening hate speech laws. In govt he’s given them the strongest protections a PM has ever implemented. Anyone booing clearly listens to too much of Sky News or the AJA

Professor Gerber makes a very good point here - we have 18C of the RDA (which Frydenfraud campaigned to remove) so if conduct doesn't offend 18C, why should make that conduct unlawful by adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auslaw

John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.

Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.

Re-sharing my article for the Alternative Law Journal on Australia's social media minimum age legislation given today is commencement day ... #auslaw

Hoddle St killer Julian Knight (who I thought had been declared a vexatious litigant everywhere) pops into the Fed Court in an attempt to gain access to the Redress Scheme - no dice: classic.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth... #auslaw

At the park yesterday, there was a man with a dog who was shouting "Flash! Flash! FLASH!" and my immediate thought was "I hope he is calling the dog's name, and not trying to give it an instruction" . . .

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Gageler CJ describes #auslaw judges as "human filters" of AI generated legal argument, a description which could also be attached to legal (and other) academics: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov... ping @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social

Nice oil-rich country you have here - be a pity if something bad happened to it . .

I am not sure plaintiff lawyers are going to like the Victorian "anti Bird v DP" legislation - if it applied, the one High Court judge who would have extended vicarious liability would still have found against DP: www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/justic... #auslaw