I turned my back on a legal career with a big law firm because I wanted to be home with my kids. If someone had offered me a heap of money to return to work when they were babies, I would have said ‘no thanks’.
Like central planners from previous eras, the gender pay gap ideologues are the latest bunch of we-know-better-than-you emoters who sideline facts, fairness and individual choices.
In the midst of an already bitter legal battle, Brittany Higgins’ personal lawyer, Leon Zwier, lobbed a grenade at Lisa Wilkinson – the woman fighting to prove his client was a rape victim.
The legal watchdog has been urged to stand down a Sydney barrister who praised Hamas and says ‘Zionists … are a stain on humanity which needs to be wiped out.’
Having followed politics for a long time, I can safely say the world is more complicated than saying that conservative equals bad and progressive equals good.
Bruce Lehrmann has lodged a complaint of professional misconduct against Network Ten lawyer Tasha Smithies over her contentious Logies advice to Lisa Wilkinson.
Shane Drumgold has taken aim at our reporting and analysis of his conduct during the Higgins debacle. He no doubt imagined his allegations would go untested by me. He was wrong.
Lisa Wilkinson has set out for the first time her claims of betrayal by Ten and her ‘devastation and humiliation’ at being removed from The Project, in previously secret documents.
At least Malcolm Turnbull, when interviewed for Nemesis, didn’t try to hide his dreadful side. And Tony Abbott had the grace, decency and wisdom to not appear on the ABC series.
Channel 10’s legal advice to Lisa Wilkinson was never revealed in the defamation trial but is now set to be made public – along with claims of back-stabbing by some lawyers involved.
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