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S P Murray
@smurray38.bsky.social
· Dec 8
A dilettante in the fields of law, politics, media, electoral administration, books, theatre, galleries, libraries, archives and museums
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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.
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.
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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.
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...
www.judiciary.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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...
“‘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...
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...
‘Authority is like virginity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone’: Inside Keir Starmer’s downfall
Years ago, Peter Mandelson shared a key lesson with his protégé Morgan McSweeney. Reminiscing about his involvement in Labour’s 1987 general election campaign, he called it the ‘spray-paint election’....
app.spectator.com.au
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
“‘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...
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
February 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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
Like lightning in a bottle, here @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social honours @kudelka.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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February 13, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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)
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)
February 13, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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)
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.
It's that kind of day eh.
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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It's that kind of day eh.
It's that kind of day eh.
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Where’s @colvinius when we need him? 😞
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Where’s @colvinius when we need him? 😞
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 …
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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.
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.
January 28, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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.
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
They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews
January 22, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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
They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews
I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?
January 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?
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...
Virginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commission
Judgments handed down by former high court judge Virginia Bell and another contender, former Federal Court of Australia chief justice James Allsop, are under scrutiny as the government decides on a ro...
www.smh.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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
December 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it …
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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...
November 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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...
“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“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...
August 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta...
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
August 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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
Member for Kiama and convicted rapist Gareth Ward loses his bid to prevent the NSW Legsilative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament after the Court of Appeal ruled against him #nswpol
August 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Member for Kiama and convicted rapist Gareth Ward loses his bid to prevent the NSW Legsilative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament after the Court of Appeal ruled against him #nswpol
The SMH and The Age, and senior editors, lawyers and journalists have avoided referral to the Federal Court Registrar for contempt over its reporting of the Antoinette Lattouf case against the ABC #auslaw
July 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The SMH and The Age, and senior editors, lawyers and journalists have avoided referral to the Federal Court Registrar for contempt over its reporting of the Antoinette Lattouf case against the ABC #auslaw
I can read this, even though my primary school learning was largely Cuisenaire rods, Behind the News, Roald Dahl and penmanship
But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
July 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I can read this, even though my primary school learning was largely Cuisenaire rods, Behind the News, Roald Dahl and penmanship
But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ahead of a NSW Supreme Court trial which had significant implications for media use of images posted on social media, the family of Westfields Bondi Junction victim, Dawn Singleton, agree to judgment in favour of Nine, reports @mwhitbourn.bsky.social #auslaw www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Singleton family agree to judgment in favour of Nine in landmark court battle
The NSW Supreme Court made the orders on the eve of a two-day trial.
www.smh.com.au
July 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ahead of a NSW Supreme Court trial which had significant implications for media use of images posted on social media, the family of Westfields Bondi Junction victim, Dawn Singleton, agree to judgment in favour of Nine, reports @mwhitbourn.bsky.social #auslaw www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
