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. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Environment, Politics, Skeptics, 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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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. [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Politics
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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 14, 2010 – 9:24 pm
David Cameron claimed on Tuesday that he and his wife Samantha are members of ‘the sharp-elbowed middle classes’. This statement was at the same time an attempt to proclaim his ordinariness and a dig at middle-class values. The Prime Minister was in effect saying that he is much like everyone else while deprecating those whom [...]
August 11, 2010 – 5:03 pm
Those of you who are my facebook friends will know that last night, I was the victim of a serious assault. That piece of legalese doesn’t, however, quite do justice to the experience of having a bottle smashed over one’s head. If it’s a ned, then it must be Buckfast. In short, two persons — [...]
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 [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Feminism, Law
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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 [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Law, Public Policy
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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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Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling is conducting an urgent review into a new medical test for incapacity benefit after fresh figures showed only 6% of those tested were deemed to be totally incapable of working. The figures, covering all new claims from October 2008 to the end of November 2009, show 39% are being [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Personal, Politics, Popular culture
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Tagged ATOS, Chris Grayling, computer says no, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, employment support allowance, LiMA, UK coalition government, UK politics, welfare, welfare reform, work capability assessment
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FRIENDS of an acclaimed Scottish writer have accused the new government’s crackdown on welfare benefits of being a factor in his suicide. Paul Reekie, who, along with Irvine Welsh, was part of a wave of young Scottish authors who rose to international prominence in the 1990s, killed himself in his Edinburgh home last month. The [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Depression, Economics, Funnies, Politics, scotland
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Tagged George Osborne, housing benefit, incapacity benefit, Paul Reekie, suicide, welfare, welfare reform
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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. (William Blake, The Sick Rose, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 1794) plate here There is a canker eating at the heart [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in General, Politics
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian Liberal Party, Australian politics, belief, fear, Julia Gillard, kevin rudd, opinion polls, politics of fear, reason, the worm, Tony Abbott
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