Acknowledgment of Country. Voice, Treaty and Truth. Cool stuff happening in Coffs Harbour (Gumbaynggirr Country). To access the Guardian’s podcast with Professor Megan Davis, click here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2023/jan/20/the-details-on-the-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-with-megan-davis To see the website for the Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School, click here: https://www.giinganaschool.org.au
Jan 25, 2023
5 min
Acknowledgement of Country. A short, sharp explainer of an interesting High Court decision about defamation. Google LLC v Defteros [2022] HCA 27. Credit to Parisa Hart for her article in Ethos, Summer 2022
Jan 11, 2023
8 min
Acknowledgment of Country. What is the AAT? What’s all the fuss?
Jan 4, 2023
7 min
Acknowledgement of Country. I share the most important thing I have learned this year. On a tangentially-related note, I encourage you to donate life via organ and tissue donation here: https://www.donatelife.gov.au
Dec 14, 2022
21 min
Acknowledgement of Country. Jury can’t make up its mind? Has all the facts and all the law but still needs more? Shazam! They need a Black direction, courtesy of the High Court of Australia (Black v The Queen [1993] HCA 71; 179 CLR 44). Bonus movie review: Joh’s Jury. Enjoy, or get frustrated trying!
Oct 29, 2022
9 min
Acknowledgement of Country. The sexual assault trial DPP v Lehrmann has been aborted, because a juror disobeyed the Chief Judge’s direction. Find out more here: https://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/judgments/director-of-public-prosecutions-v-lehrmann-no-5
Oct 28, 2022
11 min
Acknowledgement of Country. What is a King’s Counsel? And a refresher on the cab rank rule.
Sep 21, 2022
5 min
Acknowledgement of Country. Very short update on spit hoods and QLD.
Sep 20, 2022
4 min
Acknowledgement of Country and NAIDOC week. Update and breaking news: Commonwealth Attorney-General decides to stop prosecution of Bernard Collaery. Issues include open justice & rule of law. See previous episodes Season 2, 22 & Season 2, 44 for important background. Australian Financial Review article available here: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/dreyfus-orders-bernard-collaery-case-dropped-20220707-p5azvx
Jul 7, 2022
5 min
Acknowledgment of Country this NAIDOC Week. Update on the “no rights without remedy” petition. Spoiler: there will be remedies! Except, maybe, if the ACT police are allegedly involved. Here’s the report: https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2023764/JCS-Report-7-Report-into-the-Inquiry-into-Petition-32-21-No-Rights-Without-Remedy.pdf#page13
Jul 6, 2022
14 min
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