As a result of discussions on Twitter with Kat Gallow (who blogs at Curl) I have been thinking about why I love Property Law (yes, #propertylawnerd alert). As Kat noted, property law has a bad reputation amongst law students as dry and boring. However, I believe that nothing is further from the truth. I’m going [...]
For those of you who read either the Age or Andrew Bolt, you will be aware of this article, which points out the following: More than a third of the winners of Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, are now out of print. Of the 53 books that have been awarded the [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Australia, Books, Bring Laws and Gods, England, Literature, science fiction
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Tagged Andrew Bolt, Antony Harwood, Michael Heyward, Miles Franklin Award, Text Publishing, The Hand that Signed the Paper, The Kindly Ones
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You know you have too many books when this starts to happen. I have been there. Judging by the literate comments from our readership, so have you. By the way, this is the weekend chit-chat thread, so feel free to natter, engage in linkitude and so on and so forth. Murdoch at Leveson, Rangers [...]
A London Underground train has hit an obstruction on the Bakerloo line, causing severe delays. The line was suspended between Elephant & Castle and Piccadilly Circus, while the rest of the line was severely disrupted. Transport for London (TfL) said the tunnel had not collapsed and that no-one was injured. It comes as maintenance workers [...]
Sounds like a Daily Mail reader, nicht wahr? The obsession with property values, the casual racism, the little-Englander mentality. Except the ethnic group is wrong. These days, people would likely love the thought of Jews moving in next door. They’ll look after the property, mow the lawn, always make sure the car is put away and [...]
I find Steve Horwitz, along with George Selgin (prominent advocate of free banking and supporter of a productivity norm [pdf] for monetary policy), the most accessible of contemporary Austrian school economists as they are both clear writers who seek to engage with those who are not of their school and are refreshingly free of the nastiness [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, History, Philosophy
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Tagged Austrian business cycle, Austrian school, capital, David Glasner, deflation, Friedrich Hayek, George Selgin, Inflation, John Maynard Keynes, labour markets, monetary policy, Scott Sumner, Steve Horwitz, Tyler Cowen
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April 22, 2012 – 10:11 pm
The Kony 2012 Cover the Night campaign woke up to awkward questions on Saturday after activists failed to blanket cities with posters of the wanted Ugandan warlord, Joseph Kony. The movement’s phenomenal success in mobilising young people online, following last month’s launch of a 29-minute documentary which went viral, flopped in trying to turn [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Media, Politics, Religion
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Tagged africa, america, ayinet, cover the night, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, lord's resistance army, LRA, Uganda, USA, victor ochen
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As readers may have noticed, once again we’ve been nominated for the Sydney Writers’ Centre ‘Best Blogs’ Award. I have no idea how we will go this year, as we were shortlisted last year and they may decide they’ve had enough of us. However, it was nice to be shortlisted and there was an informative [...]
I was really sad to read about the recent death of Greg Ham, the flautist from Australian band Men At Work. The cause of death has still not been determined. The worst of it is that right up until his death, Ham appears to have been very distressed about a copyright case, Larrikin Music Publishing [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Australia, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Music, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged Colin Hay, copyright, copyright law, Down Under, Greg Ham, I come from a Land Down Under, Intellectual property, Kookaburra sits in the Old Gum Tree, Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Ltd, Men at Work, music, rent-seeking, spicks and specks
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A description of what confronted a Commonwealth officer in the Northern Territory during the Pacific War (1941-5), when thousands of service personnel passed through the Northern Territory: … once you introduced a European or Asian father any child of that liaison had any rights as an Aboriginal extinguished at birth. They were not classed as [...]
By Lorenzo
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Posted in Australia, Children, Economics, History, Society, Welfare
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Tagged Australian Aborigines, crime, culture, hunter-gatherer, indigenous issues, noel pearson, policy, Stolen generations
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