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It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review
It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise.
Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants.
The UK High Court judgment ruling that the UK government’s proscription of the Palestine Action Group was unlawful www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
Shipman has been one of the best long form chroniclers of British politics since Brexit - and this is just searing.
Not since the Paul Kelly of old or Pamela Williams, could we say we’ve had such sustained reporting of our politics
“‘How do you build a project around someone who doesn’t have any politics and hates the very idea of a larger project?’ asks [one defining] Starmerism.”
A 3500 word epitaph for Starmerism, and a salutary lesson for those whose capacity exceeds their ambitions app.spectator.com.au/2026/02/11/a...
As a recent subscriber to Meanjin, I hope it prospers under QUT’s aegis, but I wonder how it will fare pitted against the distinct identity already secured by Griffith Review - how to balance a hometown sensibility with the needs of a broader audience
Learnt another favourite haunt from long ago in Pyrmont is now in the Laundy empire - great taste in hostelries
It’s a Laundy Hotel! (I learn from the bowels of the building) - guess I’m keeping Ben Fordham in clover this ratings diary
Like lightning in a bottle, here @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social honours @kudelka.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Was going to bristle at $13 for a sausage in a bun (ok, onion and red cabbage too) at an Ed Sheeran adjacent Olympic Park hostelry
But then I remembered last night’s estimate of £19 postage for a book of lectures on Marx from Verso
(I’m here for muscle to navigate a way through to the train home)
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It's that kind of day eh.
Where’s @colvinius when we need him? 😞
Then there was his love for Margaret, Kay and Oskar - who each were vividly drawn to life by him in words and deeds - to them my thoughts and prayers.
To Jon - tonight, a salute from a top shelf Tasmanian malt. Vale.
The late Jon Kudelka’s tea towel asking Labor rusted ons to better make their case
And there have been so many images shared the past few days, but I like to think I was among the first online to encourage him to produce the “Rusted On” tea towel - because behind so much of his work - across Tasmania, Australia and the globe - , was an imperative to “do better”
There were so many Jon Kudelkas one could enjoy and appreciate: the sheer wheeze of him and First Dog on that crowd sourced whisky tour; the whimsy of his penguins in the Southerly; his insistence that you not trouble Tasmania with your presence …
An essay on Yeats, Auden and Eliot from Colm Toibin in the @lrb.co.uk had me dwelling on Yeats penning:
Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
For weeks since Christmas, I’ve been devoted to my two year old niece who’s fighting a rare form of childhood leukaemia - and her not much older brother who’s doing his best to navigate this unsettling world.
They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews
My query was knitting focused - but thank you for conserving fruit!
Any yarns?
I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?
The judgment in Monis v The Queen - the court split 3-3 (on gender lines) so the NSWCA judgment prevailed - ruling agains Monis’ challenge to his conviction on implied freedom of political communication grounds www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Objections to former High Court judge Virginia Bell seemingly raise her judgment in Brown v Tasmania concerning the right to protest but neglect to mention her upholding the constitutional validity of the criminal laws used against Lindt siege gunman Man Haron Monis www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Happy Release of the Commonwealth Government Cabinet Papers Under the Twenty Year Rule to all those who celebrate www.naa.gov.au/explore-coll... #archives #cabinet #HowardGovernment
Matthew Rhys is in talks with Netflix regarding a production of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker”
Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it …
On the passing of Sir Tom Stoppard, an occasion to revisit Kenneth Tynan's 1977 New Yorker profile which did as much as anything to create the image of Stoppard we have to this day, but came well before many of the works that made his reputation www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Pull quote from SMH profile of Ryan Papenhuyzen: “It’s nice to be wanted,” Papenhuyzen said. “Gus was very impressive. We had a lot of great chats, not even about footy, but about golf, about books.”
“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German
Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta...
Last submissions were in June 2024, after 15 weeks of evidence over 9 months from late 2023
High profile surgeon Munjed Al Muderis has lost a Federal Court defamation action against the Nine Network and newspapers after the respondents made out defences of contextual truth and public interest journalism #auslaw
