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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
“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...
I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences
June 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences
Rachael Patterson Collins pens a reckoning with former High Court justice Dyson Heydon and his defenders over claims of sexual harassment - and has the receipts #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...
I was among this disgraced judge’s victims. Attempts to honour him are an insult
The former High Court judge Dyson Heydon is being rehabilitated in some parts of the legal profession. It’s galling.
www.smh.com.au
June 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Rachael Patterson Collins pens a reckoning with former High Court justice Dyson Heydon and his defenders over claims of sexual harassment - and has the receipts #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...
Bill Moyers, press secretary for LBJ who fell out with him, and subsequently a stalwart of public television, dies aged 91.
Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
Bill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Bill Moyers, press secretary for LBJ who fell out with him, and subsequently a stalwart of public television, dies aged 91.
Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
Breaking: Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah finds ABC unfairly dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her expression of political opinions and awards her $70,000 in damages
June 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Breaking: Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah finds ABC unfairly dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her expression of political opinions and awards her $70,000 in damages
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It’s really funny to say that cameras aren’t allowed in courtrooms but that someone can paint a little picture of what happened
June 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It’s really funny to say that cameras aren’t allowed in courtrooms but that someone can paint a little picture of what happened
Between Damir Dokic, Frederick Forsyth and Sly Stone, now’s the time to approach Births, Deaths and Marriages about a name change if yours alliterates
June 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Between Damir Dokic, Frederick Forsyth and Sly Stone, now’s the time to approach Births, Deaths and Marriages about a name change if yours alliterates
Shared the news of the passing of Frederick Forsyth to a colleague, who was quite taken aback.
Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel
Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel
June 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Shared the news of the passing of Frederick Forsyth to a colleague, who was quite taken aback.
Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel
Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel
There’s a frisson to knowing someone recognised with an Order of Australia.
Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!
Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!
June 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There’s a frisson to knowing someone recognised with an Order of Australia.
Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!
Congratulations to @katgallow.bsky.social on a richly deserved honour for her contributions to the law and education!
“IT’S THE VIBE OF IT. IT’S THE CONSTITUTION. IT’S MABO. IT’S JUSTICE. IT’S LAW. IT’S THE VIBE AND AH, NO THAT’S IT. IT’S THE VIBE. I REST MY CASE.”
KENNEDY: Harvard is in many respects violating federal law
SCARBOROUGH: What federal law is Harvard violating?
KENNEDY: Harvard practices ideological capture
SCARBOROUGH: What federal law is Harvard violating?
KENNEDY: Harvard practices ideological capture
June 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“IT’S THE VIBE OF IT. IT’S THE CONSTITUTION. IT’S MABO. IT’S JUSTICE. IT’S LAW. IT’S THE VIBE AND AH, NO THAT’S IT. IT’S THE VIBE. I REST MY CASE.”
Fifteen days and nights of warm liquids in sippy cups, Minecraft on tablets, steady acquisition of stuffed toys, and vocal performances of farm animals in various acts of congress
June 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Fifteen days and nights of warm liquids in sippy cups, Minecraft on tablets, steady acquisition of stuffed toys, and vocal performances of farm animals in various acts of congress
Reposted by S P Murray
Big enthusiast for the endorphin rush of shouting “Morning!” to another dog walker who is up way too early over here
Seriously, is there not an endorphin rush from the most basic of human interactions in thanking your driver - bus, taxi, Uber?
June 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Big enthusiast for the endorphin rush of shouting “Morning!” to another dog walker who is up way too early over here
June 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reposted by S P Murray
"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose."
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
Starmerism Down Under
Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party is competing with Starmer’s for blandness and capitulation — and in doing so, proving the importance of rebuilding international working-class power.
tribunemag.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"If New Labour learned how to win from Hawke and Keating, Albanese taught Starmer how not to lose."
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/star...
Seriously, BlueSky autocorrects to give you “Abetz”
Quoting Enoch Powell, I await my job offer from Eric Abetz #politas
Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation;
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
#politas
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
#politas
June 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Seriously, BlueSky autocorrects to give you “Abetz”
Quoting Enoch Powell, I await my job offer from Eric Abetz #politas
Jeremy Rockliff’s predicament has me reaching for Enoch Powell’s observation;
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
#politas
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”
#politas
June 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Quoting Enoch Powell, I await my job offer from Eric Abetz #politas