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Publication with prejudice

February 16, 2009 – 3:50 pm

A man has been arrested and charged with arson causing death of at least 11 people in connection with the Churchill bushfire. Initially, the identity of the accused was subject to a suppression order, but despite this, vigilante groups on Facebook published the accused’s name, address and photograph. A magistrate has lifted the suppression order, [...]

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Welcome to our dinner party

February 16, 2009 – 12:29 pm

Our “About Us” section says, “Pull up a pew, grab a beer (or three) and join in the conversation.” Helen wrote that, and I’ve always found it very evocative. I see our blog as reminiscent of the discussions I used to have with friends at uni, frequently over a cup of coffee or a bottle [...]

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Bloggers and journalists

January 18, 2009 – 2:29 pm

In his guest post on this blog earlier this week, Ken Nielsen wrote on the changes to media which may result from the growth of the internet. I want to focus more specifically on the role of the blogosphere. Are we quasi-journalists? Or are we something different which overlaps with journalism?
Of course, the answer to [...]

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Black Dog, the internet, Phillip Adams and My Father — Guest Post by Ken Nielsen

January 13, 2009 – 8:39 pm

[SL: After qualifying as a lawyer, Ken Nielsen switched to management and spent most of his career in the food business in Australia and Asia. In 2002 he and his wife Liz accidentally set up an opera company: www.pinchgutopera.com.au]
You can, for a small price, download me from iTunes. I don’t sing, play an instrument or even hum in tune. [...]

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Facebook forces debtors to face facts

December 17, 2008 – 9:40 am

As I have mentioned previously, I used to work as a banking litigator. This frequently involved chasing up reluctant debtors and trying to serve them with court documents. People came up with amazing ploys to avoid service – assuming other identities, pretending to be terminally ill, hiding. On one occasion, my only contact for a [...]

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Gender Analyzer

November 23, 2008 – 8:26 pm

According to the site genderanalyzer.com, this site has an 82% likelihood of being written by a man. Whereas Tim Blair’s site has a 72% chance of being written by a female. Hmm. I’m thinking the text classifier needs a little work.
I’m wondering what aspect of our writing makes it more “male”?!?

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Play with spider…

October 5, 2008 – 7:46 pm

I thought I was a bit of an arachnophobe, but clearly I’m not as bad as I thought, because I found this virtual spider quite endearing. You can pull it around by the leg or feed it.
I don’t know if my fear of spiders is getting better, or whether pregnancy hormones have just dulled my [...]

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Obscenity and the web

October 4, 2008 – 7:22 pm

A landmark case is being brought against a UK man in relation to a blog post allegedly authored by him which details his fantasy of the kidnap, rape, torture and murder of an all-girl band called Girls Aloud. I must say that I’d never heard of the band before (indeed, Wikipedia says their efforts to [...]

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Passwords: I hates them

September 18, 2008 – 11:21 pm

Over at Club Troppo, Jacques (our redoubtable admin) informs us that a bunch of not very nice internet types have hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. This seems to be part of an ongoing attempt to prove that she improperly conducted government business using her private account, although it appears that there was nothing to [...]

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Restitution Blog Posts

August 25, 2008 – 4:35 pm

Anyone who loves restitution law will have been aware for some time of the Restitution Legal Resource page, maintained by Steve Hedley. It’s a fantastic resource for restitution scholars.
Now Steve has added a page of restitution-related blog posts. How awesome is that? I’m proud to say that a few of them have been penned by [...]

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