ALP Conference dices human rights agenda … Policy setting body not keen on a Charter of Rights … New South Wales Labor goes all squishy … Accommodation for barrow pushers and wide boys … Free rein for the taser gang … The Reynolds-Higgins entanglement … A reply to Little Winston
Archive
Porkies
Glad wrap … Love Circle Number 9 … Political pork … Delay and due process … Guns and music … Sky News goes soft … Packer backs Newsmax model for Oz … Mixed metaphor of the week
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Word of the Week … The Lehrmann saga, sinking under its own ineptitude … Enter Lidia, stage right … Plus – A nation scared stiff … The NO Voice draws strength from the inflammatory crusade against Mabo and Native Title more than 30 years ago … Bring back Terra Nullius
Reputation roulette
Roberts-Smith special commemorative issue … Exploding defamation cases … Why sue when the odds are so stacked? … Ego and arrogance … Oscar Wilde’s fatal mistake … Craig McLachlan’s deceit … Kerry Stokes’ folly … Plus, PwC and young lawyers
Critical mess
Stan Grant and what it all means … Crossing the double line between advocacy and news … “Taxpayer funded” news explained … Coronation health alert for Tasmanian kiddies … Monsignor Kelly’s Voice lecture to the Law of Rulers Institute … Roll up, roll up (please)
Root damage
Molochs’ root system strangling all in its path … Recalling James Murdoch’s ineptitude … Waning influence of angry News Corp fishwraps … Lehrmann fallout – “culture” war battleground … Boo to #MeToo … Assange face-off