by Chris Merritt | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Late on Friday evening, Sydney University academic Wojciech Sadurski will log on to his computer and open a link to a local court in Warsaw where he risks being jailed for criticising a television station controlled by the Polish government. Sadurski, who is the...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
This week’s public humiliation of Gladys Berejiklian marks a turning point. The Independent Commission Against Corruption has disgraced itself. It has behaved like a peeping Tom that gets its jollies by prying into a woman’s relationship with her boyfriend, quizzing...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dan Andrews might not have heard of Gretchen Whitmer, but the Victorian premier has much in common with the authoritarian governor of the US state of Michigan. In their zeal to defeat the pandemic, they both seem to have made the same mistake. They overlooked the fact...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last November, when the Victorian government introduced contingency fees for class actions, few would have guessed that within a year Premier Dan Andrews and his government would be at risk of being eaten alive by their own creation. Thanks to the ineptitude that has...
by Chris Merritt | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
One of Melbourne’s top silks believes the validity of the curfew imposed on the city’s residents is in doubt because it appears to have been imposed for a purpose that was never authorised under state law. Michael Wyles QC identified a possible flaw in the legal basis...
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