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Donald Trump made headlines last week when a New York jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. In a statement issued by the former U.S. President following the verdict,…

Victorian upper house MP Georgie Purcell last week slammed Nine News for using an image of her that had been edited to make her breasts look bigger and expose her midriff. Nine News…

On 16 June 2023, I appeared before the ACT Supreme Court (instructed by my colleague Phoebe Logan) in relation to an application to determine whether a Plaintiff had suffered serious harm in defamation…

The first week of public hearings in the Inquiry into the Criminal Justice System in the Australian Capital Territory (the Inquiry) have made one thing very clear: the cracks in the criminal justice…

Text message exchanges between Constable Zachary Rolfe and other Northern Territory police officers, which have been described as “shocking”, “surprising” and “blatantly racist”[1], have been the subject of media attention in the last…

On 25 June 2022, I woke up briefly thinking I had time-travelled back 50 years. Turns out I hadn’t – the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) had just handed down a…

“Let us re-direct the discomfort to where it belongs.” Those are some of the words Grace Tame used in her acceptance speech when she won Australian of the Year in 2021. Grace was,…

As the ACT enters its sixth week in lockdown, many small business owners are feeling the impacts of lockdown hard. Important changes to the obligations of commercial landlords and tenants have recently come…

Like so many others this week, I have felt heartbroken by the story of three-year old Tharunicaa Nadesalingam, who was medically evacuated from the Christmas Island Detention Centre with a blood infection, after…

Last week, we wrote about the allegations of election fraud being claimed by Donald Trump and whether fraud was a genuine concern in the United States election (you can find that blog here:…