HCA special leave sought in Emma Lovell matter

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• Queensland's attorney-general applies to High Court in bid to appeal reduction of sentence for Emma Lovell's killer - ABC News
   

• Gina Rinehart helps fund Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s defamation defence - ABC News

  Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has helped fund Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s crowd-funded defence to a defamation action brought by the head of a Northern Territory land council.
   

  • Lesley Turner v Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: Online file - Federal Court of Australia
     

• ANZ faces record $240m penalty for ripping off customers and government - ABC News
   

• Former ATO employee sentenced for misuse of taxpayer information, fraud | National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC)
   

  • ATO employee jailed for claiming $60,000 in COVID payments, tax refunds [SMH paywall]

    Kasey Harries has been sentenced to five months in prison after using four people’s sensitive information to claim the payments.
     

• Bankruptcy law reform push after paedophile protects assets in superannuation - ABC News
   

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• Cindy’s Law closes legal loophole after 37 years of effort - Law Society Journal
   

• Today’s FCA livestream - QUD126/2017 & QUD91/2022 & QUD92/2022 Quandamooka Coast Combined Proceeding - YouTube
   

• Politicians hoping AI can fix Australia’s housing crisis are risking another Robodebt | Ehsan Nabavi | The Guardian
   

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