Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees a Full Federal Court judgment in NSW MLC Mark Latham’s appeal against an award of damages for defaming independent MP Alex Greenwich in a vulgar tweet - and a cross appeal from Greenwich #auslaw #defo

The new NSW District Court defamation list judge Penelope Wass SC is channelling her inner Hamill J in her case catchwords #auslaw #defo www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19e...

Let’s see what A.I. has to say on the MacInnes v Wilson contretemps … #auslaw #defo

Somebody needs to introduce the Canberra Times news bot to the ABC News bot for a tutorial on how not to intrude on the timeline

Judgment of the NSW Court of Appeal declaring that anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW Government in the wake of the Bondi Massacre impermissibly burden the implied freedom of political communication #auslaw #nswpol www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d...

While far from being an academic, I feel seen …

I need a cribbed version

The machine may be more eloquent, it may generate far more dazzling images than we could ever draw, but it will never experience human truths. And so in art, literature and all other creative processes it is a cuckoo, pushing out the human to consume resources and generate hoarded wealth

It’s not sparkling populism but instead a regional Bernardi

It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise. Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.

The UK High Court judgment ruling that the UK government’s proscription of the Palestine Action Group was unlawful www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

“‘How do you build a project around someone who doesn’t have any politics and hates the very idea of a larger project?’ asks [one defining] Starmerism.” A 3500 word epitaph for Starmerism, and a salutary lesson for those whose capacity exceeds their ambitions app.spectator.com.au/2026/02/11/a...

As a recent subscriber to Meanjin, I hope it prospers under QUT’s aegis, but I wonder how it will fare pitted against the distinct identity already secured by Griffith Review - how to balance a hometown sensibility with the needs of a broader audience

Like lightning in a bottle, here @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social honours @kudelka.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Was going to bristle at $13 for a sausage in a bun (ok, onion and red cabbage too) at an Ed Sheeran adjacent Olympic Park hostelry But then I remembered last night’s estimate of £19 postage for a book of lectures on Marx from Verso (I’m here for muscle to navigate a way through to the train home)

[Redacted] It's that kind of day eh.

Where’s @colvinius when we need him? 😞

There were so many Jon Kudelkas one could enjoy and appreciate: the sheer wheeze of him and First Dog on that crowd sourced whisky tour; the whimsy of his penguins in the Southerly; his insistence that you not trouble Tasmania with your presence …

An essay on Yeats, Auden and Eliot from Colm Toibin in the @lrb.co.uk had me dwelling on Yeats penning: Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

For weeks since Christmas, I’ve been devoted to my two year old niece who’s fighting a rare form of childhood leukaemia - and her not much older brother who’s doing his best to navigate this unsettling world. They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews

Any yarns?

I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?

Objections to former High Court judge Virginia Bell seemingly raise her judgment in Brown v Tasmania concerning the right to protest but neglect to mention her upholding the constitutional validity of the criminal laws used against Lindt siege gunman Man Haron Monis www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Happy Release of the Commonwealth Government Cabinet Papers Under the Twenty Year Rule to all those who celebrate www.naa.gov.au/explore-coll... #archives #cabinet #HowardGovernment

Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it …

On the passing of Sir Tom Stoppard, an occasion to revisit Kenneth Tynan's 1977 New Yorker profile which did as much as anything to create the image of Stoppard we have to this day, but came well before many of the works that made his reputation www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German

Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta...

High profile surgeon Munjed Al Muderis has lost a Federal Court defamation action against the Nine Network and newspapers after the respondents made out defences of contextual truth and public interest journalism #auslaw

Member for Kiama and convicted rapist Gareth Ward loses his bid to prevent the NSW Legsilative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament after the Court of Appeal ruled against him #nswpol

The SMH and The Age, and senior editors, lawyers and journalists have avoided referral to the Federal Court Registrar for contempt over its reporting of the Antoinette Lattouf case against the ABC #auslaw

I can read this, even though my primary school learning was largely Cuisenaire rods, Behind the News, Roald Dahl and penmanship But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ahead of a NSW Supreme Court trial which had significant implications for media use of images posted on social media, the family of Westfields Bondi Junction victim, Dawn Singleton, agree to judgment in favour of Nine, reports @mwhitbourn.bsky.social #auslaw www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Lions at play

Lions at rest

I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences

Come on!

Rachael Patterson Collins pens a reckoning with former High Court justice Dyson Heydon and his defenders over claims of sexual harassment - and has the receipts #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...

Bill Moyers, press secretary for LBJ who fell out with him, and subsequently a stalwart of public television, dies aged 91. Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

Breaking: Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah finds ABC unfairly dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her expression of political opinions and awards her $70,000 in damages

It’s really funny to say that cameras aren’t allowed in courtrooms but that someone can paint a little picture of what happened

Between Damir Dokic, Frederick Forsyth and Sly Stone, now’s the time to approach Births, Deaths and Marriages about a name change if yours alliterates

Shared the news of the passing of Frederick Forsyth to a colleague, who was quite taken aback. Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel

There’s a frisson to knowing someone recognised with an Order of Australia. Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!

“IT’S THE VIBE OF IT. IT’S THE CONSTITUTION. IT’S MABO. IT’S JUSTICE. IT’S LAW. IT’S THE VIBE AND AH, NO THAT’S IT. IT’S THE VIBE. I REST MY CASE.”

Fifteen days and nights of warm liquids in sippy cups, Minecraft on tablets, steady acquisition of stuffed toys, and vocal performances of farm animals in various acts of congress

Big enthusiast for the endorphin rush of shouting “Morning!” to another dog walker who is up way too early over here

Just priming my alerts for Anne Twomey and #politas and #taspol #kermitarms

"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose." tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...

Seriously, BlueSky autocorrects to give you “Abetz”