Zachary Rolfe in the witness box today

Daily wrap  

• 'Absolutely ridiculous': NT Police sergeant questioned over Zachary Rolfe texts, in police shooting inquest
  

  • 'No excuse': NT Police sergeant responds to 'racist' text message sent to Zachary Rolfe
     

  • Inquest into Kumanjayi Walker's death examining last evidence
     

  • A live stream for today’s hearing in which Zachary Rolfe will give evidence can be found here.
     

• New South Wales news: Ex-NSW ministers to face trial for alleged corruption
   

• Defence department facing $500,000 WorkCover lawsuit over injury from testing Hawkei vehicle | Australian military | The Guardian
   

• NSW police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon faces court over murder charges of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird - ABC News
   

• Farmer avoids conviction over deaths of 70 koalas due to land clearing in Victoria
   

• Magistrate to decide if SA police officer acted within powers by shoving, hitting woman
   

• Snowtown accomplice Mark Haydon poses 'appreciable risk', court document alleges
   

• WA landowner accused of breaching Aboriginal heritage laws says he was unaware of the act’s existence
   

• Criminal sentences imposed on Bingo, Aussie Skips and their former CEOs Daniel Tartak and Emmanuel Roussakis for skip bin and waste processing cartel | ACCC
   

  • Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions v Aussie Skips Bin Services Pty Ltd; Aussie Skips Recycling Pty Ltd; Roussakis [2024] FCA 122
     

  • Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions v Bingo Industries Pty Ltd; Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions v Tartak [2024] FCA 121
     

Editor’s picks

• Google’s new Gemini AI could be massive for lawyers. Here’s why… Sam Burrett (Linkedin)
   

• High Court Bulletin 2024 February
   

• Lobbyists and their access to politicians - how should we regulate it? - Anne Twomey - YouTube
   

• Why Jarryd Hayne’s spitting mate proves that defamation law is an ass - Geoffrey Watson SC [SMH paywall]
   

• The legal battle for freedom of information | The Saturday Paper
   

• In Conversation - Contemporary Issues in Civil and Criminal Contempt | 6 March 2024 Humanitix
   

  • “Level 22 Chambers invites you to attend an in conversation discussion on contemporary issues in civil and criminal contempt. Professor David Rolph and Matthew Lewis will discuss recent Australian cases within the wider context of contempt actions as outlined in Professor Rolph's book Contempt.”
     

• Law and Disorder: Demystifying law school: Andrew Henderson on abandoning the myth of the perfect law student on Apple Podcasts
   

  • “Andrew Henderson (ANU PhD 2022) shares his journey from being a “bad” law student, to developing a passion for education, to completing a PhD on how law school affects students’ motivation and identity.”
     

• The Wigs: Extra Wigs: The Law Is A Meme on Apple Podcasts
   

• Communique - standing Council of Attorneys-General - 23 February 2024
   

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