September 4, 2010 – 7:53 am
Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves. [...]
Posted in Environment, Politics, Skeptics, Society, Technology, The Left
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Tagged class, climate change, climate change policy, clive hamilton, Environment, environmental concern, financial modeling, George Monbiot, holocaust denial, Insight, Jenny Brockie, left wing, noel pearson, public policy, right wing, risk analysis, Science, scientific method, Simon Niemeyer, skepticism, Skeptics, Stephen Schneider
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September 2, 2010 – 1:51 pm
When I was learning how to drive, my father asked me what kind of car my instructor had. “A white one?” I hazarded. He was just horrified that I had no idea of the make or how many cylinders it had. I’m not a petrol head — cars are simply a tool for getting around [...]
Posted in Academia, Law, Popular culture, Restitution
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Tagged breach of confidentiality, breach of contract, confidentiality, contract, disgorgement, disgorgement damages, Popular culture, television, The Stig, Top Gear
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September 1, 2010 – 11:07 am
For the moment anyway. Yes. I’ve handed in my PhD thesis. I can’t quite believe it: my hands and knees are shaking. Now I’ve just got to hope that the examiners have mercy on it. I put a special part in my acknowledgements for my two co-bloggers and for the regular commenters on this blog [...]
August 29, 2010 – 11:25 am
…you just feel disappointed in your countrymen. Like today. I happened to click on this awful little story in The Australian (reported in more detail at Perth Now): Aboriginal Liberal candidate Ken Wyatt has got [sic] hate mail from people who say they wouldn’t have voted for him if they had known he was indigenous. [...]
August 22, 2010 – 5:27 pm
The outcome of the 2010 Federal Election is fascinating. The Liberal National Party have 71 seats, Labor has 70 seats, the Greens have 1 seat (their first ever won in a General Election), and other independents have 3. It looks like Labor is better placed to form a minority government, but we’ll wait and see. [...]
Posted in Politics, Society
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Tagged Australian Greens, Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, Federal Election 2010, General, Hung Parliament, independents, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, Tony Abbott, voting
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August 18, 2010 – 7:57 pm
In some ways, Facebook is very good for friendship. Via Facebook, I’ve managed to get back in contact with various childhood and school friends, which has been lovely. I am the kind of person who takes friendships seriously. I’m still friends with three people from Primary School, for goodness sakes, let alone numerous people from [...]
Posted in Depression, Internet, Media, Personal, Technology
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Tagged computers, death, Facebook, friends, friendship, Politics, Religion, social media, social networking, Technology
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Personal recollections A long time ago, in the process of applying for Articles, I was sexually harassed by a male partner at a law firm. I think I was, anyway. I hadn’t received a place in the first round of offers, and I’d come to seek feedback on my interview technique. “What would you do [...]
Posted in Feminism, Law, Society
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Tagged compensation, compensatory damages, damages, David Jones, deterrence, Feminism, Kirsty Fraser-Kirk, Law, Mark McInnes, Miranda Devine, punishment, punitive damages, Sex, sexual harassment
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One of the reasons I really liked working at the Supreme Court was that it was a bastion of intelligent eccentricity. Many of the judges were unusual people, but they were also intelligent, compassionate people. I know that at least some judges were aware of their eccentricity. One judge (now retired) came in to my [...]
Posted in Law, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged Department of Justice, depression, eccentricity, eccentrics, fairness, Frank Vincent, health, human resources, job interviews, judges, judiciary, magistrates, mental health, petty tyrants, Rob Hulls, role plays, Supreme Court of Victoria, temperamentally unsuited, Victoria
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No, I’m not talking about that kind of solicitor, I’m talking about the other kind of solicitor. The one who tells you what the law is. You may think you can shake us off, but the evidence shows we’ve been around for a lo-o-o-ong time, at least 3700 years. Researchers from the Hebrew University of [...]
Posted in History, Law, Middle east, Religion
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Tagged Akkadian, archaeology, Bava Kamma, Bible, Code of Hammurabi, cuneiform, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, History, Judaism, lawyers, lex talionis, Rabbis, restitution for wrongs, Talmud, Torah, tort, weregild
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