Kind of random that Australian political parties have pretty high follow counts in cf. other anglophone countries, on a raw and per head basis

Random how Hanson manage to (finally) find 2 people in NSW and WA who are happy to be just normal backbenchers and not constantly going on the news getting mad at her, and then stuffed it up in Farrer like genuinely, you politically obsessed, do you know their names?

Ahh, not true?

Worth Reading (maybe because i agree with it's interpretation of For Women Scotland) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...

Randomly remembered that time a Hobart City Council Member got so mad when people pointed out that her decision to block a WOMEN'S SHELTER was morally wrong and legally dubious that she tried to pass a motion next council meeting to start public education campaigns on planning laws

This is a bit Tassie specific but also I think we do have an issue where local government members are 1) often small business professionals (eg accountants) and 2) have extreme job insecurity for their council role Leading to the situation where these individuals often unwilling to cut back...

(From Channel 4 News)

we are witnessing the worst football game of all time

you'll never guess which Justice this was

@TEQSA Board i am available if you want to make me chancellor of ANU

Who would be the funniest person for the ANU to appoint chancellor

Oh no what if they leak all my essays submitted to Canvas and i am revealed to be a genius 🥰

It's quite cool that some parts of England looked at the model of Tasmania where, prior to 2012, 1/2 of council was elected every 2 years and went (imo) 'we can do a even dumber model though!' (in Tasmania Councils are elected at large)

Unironicaly think Robert Beech-Jones should be appointed Governor of Tasmania after his retirement from the High Court. Guy obviously still loves Tasmania (see, eg, the many speeches he's given to societies in Tasmania, and R v Zerafa [2013] NSWCCA 222, 138)

Timeline where PHON somehow forms government after the next election and Gageler didnt retire early so they get to appoint the new chief justice

Edelman J is (probably) my favourite current HCA justice (do enjoy Jagot J as well) but this is a very Edelman-core sentence

Bridget McKenzie suggested on RN Breakfast that the government could fund island rail by … not letting the ISIS brides come back and… cancelling the suburban rail loop

How did One Nation not manage to properly vet their possibly most important candidate ever

Do like how in the voting episodes of Judgement they extensively interview the solicitor general who was involved in Roach but don’t interview (in that capacity) the solicitor general from Rowe, and they don’t explain why (the then solicitor general is now the chief justice of the HCA)

If i was a member of a party and that leader pretended like he was a spokesperson from the red cross i'd simply say 'that's bad' instead of getting mad abt it 🤷‍♂️

From Justice Robert Beech-Jones (rather fascinating) address to the Law Society of Tasmania on the 50th anniversary of the Tasmanian Dams Case

From Chief Justice Peter Underwood's Farewell address to the Supreme Cort of Tasmania

I dont really get why people are getting mad at this? It's just some recepies, chill

Today i learnt that if there is a visit of the Head of Government, the Chief Justice might be in the procession welcoming them

'Takaichi Sane dressed like Thatcher!' is imo very silly. She is simply wearing pretty ordinary business wear for women that is stylish with people born in a certain period. plenty of other women politicians dress like that, and plenty of non-politicians like eg my mum!

Pretty poor from the AAP imo 1. It's debatable but i think calling Takaichi Sanae 'the iron lady' is 1) tired and a bit silly & 2) to say she 'models herself off of her' is, i would argue, misleading at best aapnews.aap.com.au/news/japan-s...

No-One asked but Japanese Constitution Take - The Constitution of Japan is i think a really interesting document because how the Supreme Court of Japan has chosen to interpret it makes it a pretty 'weak' document, ie. its pretty rare that a government law gets overturned (counts slightly differ...

The Full Bench of the High Court of Australia - boring name, and only 7 people that's not really an impressive bench! The Grand Bench of the Supreme Court of Japan - cool sounding, awe inspiring, and there's 15 of them, a very impressive bench

Constitution Day is making me wonder why im doing my research project this sem on Labour in Taisho Democracy and not the process of constitutional interpretation in early postwar japan 😔

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan held a press conference to mark 'Constitution Day' (the date of the promulgation of the constitution in '47) When asked about use of AI in judgements or reasoning he commented that it was like a 'wild beast'... www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...

It does really suck that Gauldron J retired when she did (she could've served for another decade) and got replaced by Heydon. 18 Months later the court would hear Al-Kateb and im somewhat skeptical that she would've sided with the 'indefinite detention is actually not punishment' group

We may never lose again exc

Just learnt that Ishida Takato, the newly elected governor of Fukui, has started to post captions in English as well as Japanese, seemingly in response to the massive number of English followers he's attracted seemingly to do with his attractiveness

My favourite type of textbook is one where you can tell the co-authors were arguing with each other throughout about what terms to use/how to explain things. As it feels the need to re-explain concepts and randomly switches terms halfway through a chapter (Looking at you Principles of Admin Law)

I really wished Hobartians had succeeded in weaponing fast food NIMBYism about opening a KFC across the road from a school to build an apartment on what is an incredibly centrally located piece of land (land tax, govt buy land to build public housing apartments, exc exc)

cannot stress enough how hard i laughed when i read this passage in the Narrow Road to the Deep North what do you mean there's Hutchins slander in a booker prize winner It's actually crazy that a deeply Tasmanian book (at least in parts) won a Booker prize

Vaguely Interesting - don't think i've heard the idea to ban youths (which was not defined by Kineau) from accessing chatbots before? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

So true

I was quite annoyed by the lack of monday football until i remembered that ANZAC day isnt a public holiday in Victoria if it falls on the weekend truly a pathetic pathetic state

I don't think that's true ABC!

Anyone have thoughts on the women's prize shortlist?

I had a dream that one of my very good friends signed up for this site, saw my posts and asked me if i was okay

I love local government

I think there a geniune compelling arguments against aspects of the NDIS reforms (which tbh go to the heart of the program) but instead everyone's going 'but AUKUS' when AUKUS across the 2030s will cost what the NDIS costs in a year If you want to defend the program defend the program!

Im like 99% sure someone i know is breaching their tenancy agreement in a major way that almost certainly gives grounds for eviction and this person does not seem to recognise this fact...

What's going on in the timeline where Starmer overrules McSweeney and does actually appoint George Osborne as the ambassador to the US

Why is this the CBC's top story

I think its kinda dumb that the Australian Institute has made a pseudo newsoutlet in The Point. So far it doesnt really seem to be doing anything interesting like The Interpreter, and doesnt seem like it going to trick people like The Strategist into thinking its a proper news site because its

Um that is very very wrong?