The genre of campaign journalism evident throughout the Higgins mess led to good and decent people being damaged. When curiosity went out the door, the biggest loser was the search for the truth.
The Brittany Higgins saga has never been able to shake its original flawed arrival. It started in the media and was destined to stay there. The only thing that has changed is the cast of characters, the scalps, and the rising costs to us.
The admission by Taylor Auerbach that the masseuse service ‘had nothing to do with work’ appears to be at odds with his sworn affidavit that it was procured for Bruce Lehrmann’s benefit.
If I was offered the role of governor-general, I’d say shoot me now. Shoot me again if it was because I’m a woman.
DEI demands candidates for employment in or admission to university be judged not on their individual merits but by their membership of collectives, notably sex, gender and race.
According to an old proverb, the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine. A few Sydney silks must be wishing they could cajole Justice Michael Lee to rise a little earlier next Thursday.
A three-year delay by the ACT government has led to a perception that some judicial appointees in the ACT lack the legal skills or experience for the job, a senior barrister says.
It is the supreme irony that we may have been looking in the wrong place for possible political interference in how the ACT prosecutes sexual assault cases.
The ACT A-G told Anthony Williamson he was ‘concerned’ he had terminated some sexual assault prosecutions, two months before the respected acting DPP was rejected for the job.
Increasingly disillusioned millennials and Gen Zers are turning right, and Holly Valance’s headline-making comments take me back to when the Spice Girls came out as Thatcherites.
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