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Friday
Jun052020

Smith's Strongroom

• DateFriday, June 5, 2020

Historian Jenny Hocking bursts into Kerr's secret locker ... High Court gives her the key ... The Archives Act and Commonwealth records ... David Szmitkowski's arrangement with the Archives ... Side agreement with the Palace ... Failed attempt to make agreements outside the terms of the legislation ... Office holders as trustees of the public ... Procrustes explains the latest big decision from the High & Mighty 

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Monday
Apr202020

The Case of Annika's Drawers

• DateMonday, April 20, 2020

Police riffling through a journalist's drawers ... Illegal warrant, but not illegal enough to stop the Keystone Cops keeping the material on the USB stick and using it ... Seizure of property and judicial discretion ... Forget the journalism, the common law all at sea on unlawfully acquired evidence ... Where's Entick v Carrington when you need it? ... Procrustes gets to grips with the High Court's twisted knickers  

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Friday
Apr102020

Washing of hands

• DateFriday, April 10, 2020

The Rabid Princess and the passing of bucks ... Virus laden cruise ships and the Australian response ... Earlier lessons from the Diamond Princess ignored by Border Force and NSW Health ... A forest of laws ... Remembering the plague ship Surry ... The Black Death's legal legacy ... Procrustes at large 

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Friday
Mar062020

Lovin' Spoonful

• DateFriday, March 6, 2020

Misguided furore from the Murdocracy over the High Court's decision in the Aboriginal "aliens" case ... The court had been down the "birth" track before - in 1908 ... "Belonging" that is so strong that it can't be removed ... Special legislation to ring-fence Indigenous intrusion into mining and other "developments" ... Sprorts and discretionary handouts ... Plus ça change ... Paws stuck in the honey jar ... Procrustes at large 

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Friday
Jan312020

Dubious developments on the Torrens

• DateFriday, January 31, 2020

Court of Appeal for Crow Eaters ... Flummery from a vacuous attorney general ... Judge shortage ... Secret report on botched Keogh trial ... Payouts piling up ... Justice becomes the plaything of politicians ... Procrustes writes from the nation's murder capital 

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Friday
Jan102020

Myrmidons and dancing bears

• DateFriday, January 10, 2020

What is it about the Murdoch media and climate? ... Riding the tiger of denialism ... Margaret Thatcher, with her Oxford science degree, saw the problem ... Ruination of our rivers, air, crops, stock and reef ... The political power of coal and zero tax ... Doc Evatt showed how political courage worked ... Procrustes explains 

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Friday
Nov012019

The subjunctive mood

• DateFriday, November 1, 2019

Wishing and hoping and praying ... Procrustes looks at the great subjunctive issue of the day - water, and the lack of it ... Morrison's mantras ... "I love a sunburnt country ..." ... On the road from Nyngan to Bourke ... The game is up for much of the rural sector ... Who came up with the idea of buying and selling water?  

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Sunday
Oct132019

Hale Spiderwoman

• DateSunday, October 13, 2019

11 out of 11 ... UK Supremes on a null and void prorogation ... Dissolution and prorogation: compare and contrast ... Judicial review of the prerogative power of the crown ... Principle of parliamentary sovereignty ... Her Maj the cypher ... Welcome back Sir Edward Coke ... Procrustes explains 

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Thursday
Sep262019

Too much rubber chicken

• DateThursday, September 26, 2019

Rekindling the culture wars on museums ... Remembering the Howardistas' attack on Dawn Casey ... Political donations - a problem too far ... Corporates snapping up democracy at bargain basement prices ... Political intervention driven by ideology and money ... Procrustes explains it all 

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