“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”

Quoting Enoch Powell, I await my job offer from Eric Abetz #politas

Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation; “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” #politas

Reposted for the #politas audience

Oh Graun!

I decided to stay off social media. Here’s why i went on a 30 skeet bender tonight by me

On the rare occasion I end a tweet/skeet with #taspol I have to avoid typing #tassalmon

Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation; “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” #taspol

"Dhoombak Goobgoowana is the most important history of higher education in Australia to date." @hannahforsyth.bsky.social reviews the new book by Ross Jones, James Waghorne & Marcia Langton on Indigenous Australia and Melbourne University for @jich.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I decided to stay off social media. Here’s why i went on a 30 skeet bender last week. by me

Seriously, is there not an endorphin rush from the most basic of human interactions in thanking your driver - bus, taxi, Uber?

The Graun: Thank the bus driver? Whatever next - re-nationalisation of public transport?

A reminder that I am always looking for more to add to this list of online and open access collections of radical historical documents. Over 900 collections now listed (and more on the way). hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

Has anyone done Slow Horses on Hard Quiz? That’s my back up if I can’t get Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister up. Hello SBS! Mastermind you say?

Can I what? Hello, Hard Quiz?

Monster!

Monster!

Today’s Wordle? Oh my!

Tim Wilson’s spirit animal

I used to be accused of a supercilious tone when employing this alone as a response

Where’s the Liberal’s Gareth Evan’s telling the leader “the dog’s pissing on your swag”? #4corners

Hastie is hoping to sweep to office on that Moral Rearmament, West Australian centred focus of power that swept Kim Beazley (Snr and Jnr) to power #4corners

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

This #4corners truly needs a Wilson Tuckey …

France in Dickson; Boele in Bradfield; and - dare I say it- both Wilson and Daniel in Goldstein: they ran as the shadow candidate to their opponent for years They’re a study in how they sustained their respective campaigns for years - one, two or three electoral cycles

Here’s the thing: even if this fails, I’m not going back

Now and again, I tune into my alt account on the bad site: there’s two over sized bearded blokes with an amazing capacity to create narratives - but to be honest, not all of the narratives are chemical free …