David Parker
dcparker.bsky.social
David Parker
@dcparker.bsky.social
Farmer, investment manager, father & grandfather. Based in Fremantle & Margaret River in Western Australia and in Normandy in France.
Major improvements for both Higgins and Wilkinson in the appellate court finding on Lehrmann’s appeal.
I've just finished reading the judgment in the Lehrmann appeal to the Federal Court and a few points really stuck out - apart from the fact that the appeal judges agreed that Lehrmann's story was an absolute fabrication.

Lisa Wilkinson was found to have been poorly done by in the original judgment
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Does that mean she can get the TV station to pay a higher percentage of her costs?
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The size and richness of the Simandou iron-ore deposit in Guinea could shift the industry’s power dynamics and help transform the nation’s economy.

Read more: bloom.bg/4oL3DZl

📷️: Ricci Shryock/Bloomberg
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The people of Little Village showed the nation what courage looks like: standing unarmed, united, & unafraid in the face of ICE’s tear gas & violence. They protected their neighbors, not with weapons, but with peaceful & fierce solidarity.
November 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Shrinking casts, diminished reach, less ambition: the arts in Australia needs more than just tax reform | Eamon Flack
September 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Appalling. You are right. Netanyahu & his cabal cannot be allowed to get away with it and most importantly it has to be stopped.
September 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This is a great, moving & chilling series and should be read by all Australians. Something that no-one in either my or my children’s generation were ever taught in school
August 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Why we should run the arts like our sporting industry
August 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I agree. I’m the US it is the system that is wrong. In Australia, we have an independent commission that both supervises the districting based only on population and demographic changes and also runs the election for the whole country. Rarely any complaints and then only minor.
August 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I think the 75% figure specifically applies to Victoria in the 15 years post its colonization. Not diminish the horror of it, and there was no doubt as bad or worse in other areas, but just to get it right.
July 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
Opinion | The Achingly Simple Lesson That Democrats Seem Determined Not to Learn (Gift Article)
Trying to find a lefty Joe Rogan entirely misses the point.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fantastqic true story
And resolent of post-Mao China
www.gingerriver.com/p/becoming-m...
Becoming Ma Jingfen
At 93, a Chinese entrepreneur’s daring new chapter
www.gingerriver.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy suspends UK-Israel trade negotiations and summons the Israeli ambassador over IDF actions in Gaza, which he says are "incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relations" and an "affront to the values of the British people."
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
theconversation.com/5-huge-clima...
5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver
In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.
theconversation.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Great contribution on how to achieve realistic but ambitious gals on climate action without suggesting major disruption to industry/jobs (such as the NW Shelf)
theconversation.com/5-huge-clima...
5 huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver
In its previous term, Labor laid the groundwork for stronger climate action. Now, in an expanded majority government, it has the chance to capitalise.
theconversation.com
May 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Right. SOS I see. The original appended article was from 2018 and she didn’t win that time and as explained earlier, I am far from convinced the will this time even though the libs have often won the 3rd spot.
April 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
..2
Did them a lot of harm at the recent state election.

Having said which, I doubt that the position #3 she has will get her elected in the current mood over here
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Thanks. The article you appended to your earlier post was from 2018 and about the 2019 election. The latest one does say she will be the in the 3rd candidate spot for this upcoming election which I agree is alarming and shows how much the Libs in WA are still controlled by the Clan (which, btw …
April 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I could have it wrong but clicking through from the article you posted revealed that she stood for them at the 2019 election (& lost) but not at the 2022 one, nor does it seem she is standing this time. I agree with your general point but she seems to have disappeared into the woodwork (I hope)
April 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off.
That's what blackmail looks like.
That's what the world is up against.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM