Sia in the counting house ... Damn statistics ... Federal Court mandarins inability to count ... Revising figures for money spent on internal legal services ... Answers squeezed out by questions at Senate Estimates ... Transparency ... From our FCA roundsman Phil Cake ... Read more >>
The rotten fruit issue ... Corruption busters busted for bias, concealment, and conflicts … Mistress of the office couch more damaged than the rape victim … Next round for Linda Reynolds … Reputation damaged by former attorney general … Miranda Devine smooches Trump ... Read on >>
From the cutting room floor...Handsy Heydon goes to Perth ... Celebrity tour ... Conferenceville ... Dicey's job application speech from 2002 ... Other High Court judges mocked as "vegetables" ... Mason CJ ridiculed ... Speech bowdlerised for public consumption ... Courage of conviction MIA ... From our National Affairs Correspondent ... Read more >>
Drowning Centre floods ... Courts crisis ... Update from the government on what's happening ... More >>
Letter from London ... Weather report ... Starmer sinking ... Farage rising ... Fake law firm ... Fake cases ... NHS employee cleans up with woke case for hurt feelings ... Floyd Alexander-Hunt files from Blighty ... Read more >>
Holding onto Hope ... Gina Rinehart's Bleak House ... Seeking chunks of the huge iron ore pit, Hope Downs ... Tracing the tangled Wright, Hancock, Rinehart litigation ... Allegations of fraud against the family trust ...Manoeuvring ... Tax "advice" ... Shifting vesting date ... Money, the root of unhappiness ... Anthony-James Kanaan reports ... Read more >>
The High Court of Queensland ... Where to now for Bookshelves Brandis? ... Banana Benders in charge ... Eleven names scratched by CJ from Sunshine silks list ... Prosecutors dominate NSW Dizzo appointments ... Farewell to Equity Queen ... What life looked like nine years ago ... From Justinian's Archive, December 2, 2016 ... Read more >>
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I Once Met ... Prominent and unusual people encourtered by our readers and contributors.
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On the Couch: where notable notables bear their souls.
Wendler on Wine: spectacular wine reviews, gargling and spitting from barrister Gabriel Wendler.
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On the Couch • Friday, October 22, 2021 Jo Dyer was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when she became an advocate for her deceased friend Kate - after Kate's accusations of rape against then attorney general Christian Porter were posthumously made public ... The theatre, film, television and festival producer is On The Couch
Critics' Corner, Miss Lumière • Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Miss Lumière is back in the cinema ... The alienated life of Martin Bryant ... A strange inheritance ...Guns and cash ... The story leading up to the Port Arthur massacre
Film review I Once Met ... • Thursday, October 14, 2021 As a law student Tom Kelly met Tom Denning ... Visiting lecture in Sydney ... Problem of the missing teeth ... No recollection of what was said ... Later realisation that the Master of the Rolls may not have been such a wonderful chap ... Confusion about the Dennings
Sydney Law School I Once Met ... • Wednesday, October 6, 2021 Communications and branding guru and former ABC producer Julian Canny met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1970s ... The briefest interview that ever made it to air ... Arnie at "optimum extension" ... Aunty's scratched footage
ABC, Arnold Schwarzenegger I Once Met ... • Sunday, September 26, 2021 David Bennett QC had an encounter at the House of Lords ... Former PM Margaret Thatcher on the supremacy of parliament ... Frosty view on Australian constitutional checks and balances
David Bennett QC I Once Met ... • Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Prime Minister Keating arrives at a Labor Party fundraiser in Darwin where he meets a star-struck Buffalo Bruce ... 1994, a time of harsh CLP criminal justice laws ... Native Title Act and the reconciliation movement also at work ... Synchronistic forces at play
Paul Keating I Once Met ... • Thursday, September 16, 2021 The editor meets Lionel Murphy for the first time ... But not the only time ... Unfolding the Whitlam government's agenda in the senate leader's office ... New wallpaper ... An unexpected interruption ... Interview with cub reporter
Lionel Murphy Wendler on Wine • Saturday, September 4, 2021 Spanish Flu and Covid-19 ... War and contagion ... Consequences for wine grape harvests ... European and Australian vintages in 1919-1920 compared to 2020-2021 ... Australia's bounteous 2021 wine grape crush ... Excellent fruit all around ... First world issues ... Wine correspondent Gabriel Wendler writes
I Once Met ... • Wednesday, September 1, 2021 A glimpse of the simpatico Hawke ... Boating up north ... A photo opportunity ... Lister Harrison invited to snap the former PM with his arm around a local man
I Once Met ... • Friday, August 27, 2021 Introducing I Once Met ... Readers' recollections about their encounters with the great, the good and the not-so-good ... First in a series ... Leverhulme has a brusque introduction to Bob Hawke in 1989
Bob Hawke, Leverhulme