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• David McBride lodges High Court application to challenge conviction - ABC News
   

• Judge criticises bid to thwart Victorian Liberal party’s John Pesutto bailout as ‘half baked’ waste of court time | Victorian politics | The Guardian
   

• Jury deliberations in Erin Patterson murder trial will not begin until next week — judge tells court - ABC News
   

• ‘Shameful bigot’: Premier’s spray after Mark Latham stunt [SMH paywall]

  “This week Latham used [parliamentary privilege] to share the confidential medical information of Independent MP Alex Greenwich, which was presented to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal during a homosexual vilification and workplace sexual harassment claim brought by Greenwich against Latham.”
   

• Antoinette Lattouf: Taxpayers face $2 million bill for ABC's unfair firing
   

  • What the Antoinette Lattouf decision means for employers and employees [SMH paywall]

    The presenter’s Federal Court win against the ABC over the expression of her political views is expected to encourage other employees to test the limits of the law.
     

• Wildlife group takes Victorian government to court over mass helicopter koala cull - ABC News
   

• Australian consumer watchdog takes gas company to court alleging it misled consumers over renewables claim | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) | The Guardian
   

• NSW MP Gareth Ward likened to ‘vampire running a blood bank’ by alleged sexual assault victim, court hears | New South Wales | The Guardian
   

• Victoria found a camera in her bathroom. Then she discovered the images online [SMH paywall]

  Australians now have a new weapon in the fight against the non-consensual sharing of intimate images and deepfakes.
   

• Tasmanian MP Craig Garland pleads guilty to a drug-driving charge - ABC News

    

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• Livestream - R v Kristian White - 27.06.2025 - YouTube
   

• Paper, Scissors - Rock or Island? - Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks - Apple Podcasts

  Paper, Scissors - Rock or Island? Do you want a rock, DJ - or an island? This week the panel discusses the difference between rocks and islands in international law and why it matters, with special reference to the South China Sea case and subsequent legal arguments about archipelagoes. Tamsin Phillipa Paige chairs a discussion featuring co-hosts Douglas Guilfoyle and Imogen Saunders and special guest Tim Stephens.
   

• Ian Denham takes over as Moray & Agnew’s new national and NSW managing partner | Australasian Lawyer
   

• Mr Shaun Turner v Darebin City Council | Fair Work Commission

  [90] In the absence of a single witness to his actions attesting to having felt disrespect, Mr Turner was dismissed because he did not embrace the delivery of an Acknowledgement of Country at a toolbox meeting and instead employed sarcasm when expressing his opinion that Acknowledgements of Countryare at risk of being overused.
   

• R (Cth) v Nguyen [2025] NSWDC 164 (7 February 2025)

  [14] One of the offences here has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. That alone should indicate how serious this matter is. An estimate of two hours for a sentence of that type, particularly given the complexities of this sentence, is completely wrong and should never have been given by either or both of the parties to this court for this sentence. This sentence should have been listed for at least three to four hours and probably a day. This is an ongoing problem in this Court and practitioners constantly give inaccurate estimates of sentences. It has a serious knock-on effect to others waiting for their sentences to be reached or to be given a sentence date, for which the time is being extended on a daily basis. It also has a serious impact on the workload of judges in this Court because, as it would also be well known to practitioners in this Court, any judge with a part-heard sentence will also be required to preside over trials whilst waiting for that sentence to be finalised.

  [15] It also has an impact on offenders, like the one before me, and his family who come to Court with an expectation, albeit unrealistic, that they will know what the result of their sentence will be on the day the matters is listed. This must stop. I have been making these observations now frequently for at least 10 of the last 29 years I have been sitting as a District Court Judge. Parties must stop giving unrealistic estimates for sentences in particular and in particular in complicated sentences like the matter before me.
   

• Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors | Meta | The Guardian
   

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