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Jacob’s Ladder

March 5, 2010 – 6:52 am

It was all polite smiles and meticulous protocol as Jacob Zuma met the Queen yesterday afternoon. But just hours before he left for his state visit to Britain, South Africa’s flamboyant President revealed what he really thought of his hosts.
In an astonishing interview given shortly before he boarded his flight to London, Mr Zuma launched [...]

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A Welcome to Lawyers’ Weekly readers

March 4, 2010 – 5:03 am

Some of the people who write this blog are actually organised. I, alas, am not one of them.
Unbeknown to me, this blog was prominently featured in this week’s issue of leading trade magazine Lawyers’ Weekly. The article discusses several sites across Ozblawgistan, including Stephen Warne’s professional negligence blog (you’ll notice he’s featured on LE’s blogroll) [...]

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Sharing is not always a good thing

February 19, 2010 – 2:16 pm

[Warning, if you are eating, do not continue reading this post.]
I just had occasion to shiver all over with horror. You know, when something is so awful that you feel like your skin is crawling off your back? What could be so awful…?
The cause of my horror was the article where Tony Abbott was moaning [...]

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Instrumentum Vocale

February 14, 2010 – 3:14 am

Sir John Houghton, who played a critical role in establishing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), was roundly condemned after it emerged that he was an apparent advocate of scary propaganda to frighten the public into believing the dangers of global warming.
“Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen,” Sir John was supposed to [...]

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Investment Wankers

February 4, 2010 – 2:18 am

An Australian banker is in hot water after being filmed looking at semi-nude photos of a model while a colleague was doing a television interview nearby.
He could be seen clicking on photos of Miranda Kerr in the background of the Channel 7 interview on Tuesday with an analyst for Macquarie Private Wealth.
The footage soon made [...]

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Bloggers, journalists and the law

January 15, 2010 – 6:08 pm

Richard Ackland has an interesting piece in the SMH on the laws protecting journalists versus the laws protecting bloggers, with some thoughts about the blurred line between journalism and blogging as well. He says:
Justice William Gummow of the High Court asked the question last year during an appeal in Ray Chesterton’s defamation action against 2UE: [...]

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Wowsers are Winning

December 15, 2009 – 8:40 pm

Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports:
The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.
But [...]

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Confidence and privacy

December 7, 2009 – 9:46 am

I went to an interesting seminar the other day on breach of confidence law. The seminar included a number of speakers and spanned Australian, UK and US law on the subject, as well as a historical consideration of the piecemeal manner in which breach of confidence law developed.
Apparently breach of confidence was a relative latecomer [...]

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Moral panic? What moral panic?

November 3, 2009 – 6:39 pm

Being of a libertarian cast of mind, I’ve often been of the view that all the campaigns about smoking, drugs and obesity are more than a little overdone. It’s not that I think these things are unhealthy — they plainly are. It’s more that I suspect the moral panic is made worse not because we [...]

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Blood Elves and Blogwars

October 1, 2009 – 10:44 pm

I hadn’t come across conservative US shock jock Glenn Beck until an anonymous prankster started up a site called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com. Beck is now suing the originator of the site, so of course I’m interested now.
Some background first. Beck doesn’t sound like he’d be my cup of tea. An article in Time magazine in July this [...]

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