Wednesday
Dec242014
Hey, it's Christmas
Goings On ... • Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Swearing out ... Knock About looked like a sad sack at Muir's farewell ... Appointments with echoes of Bjelke era ... Witness coaching
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Goings On ... • Wednesday, December 24, 2014 Thursday
Dec042014
Stinging Nettle among the thistles
Judges • Thursday, December 4, 2014 Geoffrey Nettle, hero of Yarraside, goes to the High Court ... Government turns tame ... Soapy's soft spot ... Big chance for Marty Pakula ... Rustling through the archives ... Judges' associate Ginger Snatch reports
tagged Geoffrey Nettle, George Brandis, High Court
Geoffrey Nettle, George Brandis, High Court Monday
Jun092014
When NO means YES
Polly Peck • Monday, June 9, 2014 Senate estimates hearings ... The pedantic mind of Soapy Brandis ... Freedom Boy has the floor ... Drafty exposure ... Polly Peck reports ring side at senate estimates
Friday
May232014
Hocking the budget
Goings On ... • Friday, May 23, 2014 Essential programs slashed and burnt in Hockey budget - including Bret Walker's job ... Here comes Mega-Trib ... Fancy bookshelves ruled out-of-order for Chinese judges ... How to get a remedy against an indigent blogger
tagged Defamation, Federal budget, George Brandis, Judges, Legal aid
Defamation, Federal budget, George Brandis, Judges, Legal aid Monday
Mar312014
Bigot Watch
Polly Peck • Monday, March 31, 2014 Soapy on the free speech balustrades ... 100 flowers to bloom ... No Coalition unity ticket on amendments to Racial Discrimination Act ... AG's unique understanding of "public discussion" ... Anti-Muslin groups rally in support ... Is this a bad dream?
Tuesday
Feb182014
Fresh horrors
Goings On ... • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 NSW QCs - attorney general Smith speaks ... Big law shop getting into the law news and reporting business ... Soapy making mischief at the Human Rights Commission
Tuesday
Feb182014
Dear Editor
City Desk • Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Letters to the papers from David Flint, Senator Soapy Brandis and Bob (Plain Nut) Carr ... What are they on about? ... Strange missives
Monday
Dec092013
Brandis' secret scheme to stop the presses
Polly Peck • Monday, December 9, 2013 Brandis watch ... Uncomfortable straddle on free speech ... Where was Soapy when the "F*** Tony Abbott" T-shirts were being marched off campus ... The attorney general's forgotten "back door" scheme to injunct the media
tagged Free speech, George Brandis
Free speech, George Brandis Monday
Oct142013
Soapy Watch
Polly Peck • Monday, October 14, 2013 New AG to protect judges from free speech attacks ... Silence on announcements should not detract from exciting policy initiatives ... Polly Peck reports
Wednesday
Oct022013
By George
Goings On ... • Wednesday, October 2, 2013 A rorters catalogue ... RIP "Sir" Arthur George ... Soapy George Brandis and his slippery expense claims ... Wedding business and a sense of entitlement ... New attorney general crippled at the start
Tuesday
Sep032013
George cares
Procrustes • Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Election that takes us nowhere ... Legal aid only encourages the poor to be "extremely litigious" ... Removing government funded advice for "queue jumpers" ... Coalition seeking to shaft the Constitution ... Procrustes issues a pent-up moan
tagged ASIO, Asylum seekers, George Brandis, Legal aid
ASIO, Asylum seekers, George Brandis, Legal aid Tuesday
Aug272013
Polly wolly doodle all the day
Polly Peck • Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Lib-Lab ... Your nutshell guide to law and justice policies ... Dreyfus and Brandis hammer and tongs at the "great legal debate" ... Snoresville with flourishes
Monday
Jun172013
High Court shuffle
Goings On ... • Monday, June 17, 2013 Not only will the treasury benches be rejigged after September 14, so too will the High Court ... Soapy Brandis' vanity bauble ... Legal outsourcing in Van Diemen's Land ... Homework for litigants ... Love at the Lubyanka ... Stand-off between Wayne's World and the WA AG ... Oz legal affairs section wilting ... Meritorious appointment caught-up in Pearce attack ... Courts discuss social media policy, but keep the twitterers at bay
Friday
Jun292012
Two dangling plums
Procrustes • Friday, June 29, 2012 How far ahead can the government lock-in High Court appointments? ... Why is Soapy Brandis so unbearably smug? ... How do we solve the problem of refugee boats? ... Procrustes asks ... And answers
tagged Dyson Heydon, George Brandis, Refugees
Dyson Heydon, George Brandis, Refugees Friday
May202011
Carr and Brandis talk constitutional talk
City Desk • Friday, May 20, 2011 New constitutional reform unit at Uni of Sydney ... Indigenous recognition, the role of state governments, and local government all on the agenda ... Constitutional trogs Bob Carr and George Brandis part of the launch line-up ... Our man with a notebook was there for the ribbon-cutting
Wednesday
Mar162011
Brandis blows hard on proceeds of crime
Polly Peck • Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Soapy Brandis still nagging about David Hicks ... The shadow AG's big policy gesture: confiscate the proceeds of Hicks' book ... It is far from clear that this is possible
tagged David Hicks, George Brandis, Proceeds of Crime
David Hicks, George Brandis, Proceeds of Crime Thursday
Aug122010
When Soapy came to town
Deja Vu • Thursday, August 12, 2010 From Justinian's archive ... It's August 12, 2010, nine days before the federal election ... Soapy Brandis is being hosted at Beppis by a bevvy of Sydney silks ... Law 'n' Justice policies thin on the ground ... Strange issues emerge in the campaign for Wentworth ... Here we go again ... Insight into the barrenness of the upcoming 2013 poll
tagged George Brandis, Law and justice, Politics, Wentworth
George Brandis, Law and justice, Politics, Wentworth