Former barrister Charles Waterstreet has been found to have committed professional misconduct, arising from a string of incidents of sexual harassment of young women working for him.
caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/18ecc…

If you're looking for consistency in Dutton's pronouncements, it's actually very black and white.

Not that he doesn't deserve this, but we're getting close to going through the bins territory now smh.com.au/national/bruce…

We have a new partner! Emma Johnsen, IP legend, has been promoted, bringing our partnership into equilibrium (majority female).

You read this and think 'Tony was always so good at predicting the future incorrectly' but then you realise he said this today, putting him squarely in the crazy uncle corner

Peter Dutton is worried about racism.

Roll that sentence around in your brain a few times.

Literally nobody genuinely thinks this

Of course Australians are almost as terrified of squatters as we are of refugees, it would be silly to think our national fear of being invaded and dispossessed is unrelated to our legacy of unacknowledged invasion and dispossession.

His speech was definitely written by AI, it’s a random assortment of off-cuts from low-grade populists

Media rules of engagement, lesson for today: just like you can't unilaterally impose confidentiality on another person, saying 'off the record' to a journalist doesn't make the communication off the record unless they agree.

The Bruce Lehrmann defamation circus is preparing to take down its tent ahead of Justice Lee's verdict. But what are the possible outcomes? crikey.com.au/2024/04/10/bru…

The jackals are circling now, Seven is a wounded animal and the leaks will come thick and fast smh.com.au/national/new-s…

Someone committed a criminal contempt by leaking material from Lehrmann's rape trial to Seven. If that is skipped over as an unimportant detail, it will happen more often, undermining the justice system altogether.

“... in the pursuit of an exclusive story with a man who was still facing rape charges when the schmoozing began in October 2022, Seven’s flagship current affairs show is accused of serious breaches of media ethics and not complying with the law and then lying to cover it up.'

You're being a little bit communist there, Vikki

Also - but not importantly - a homeless man is dead.

Tony scratching his head why women don’t want to be in his party, what could it be

This week we learned that Spotlight is the journalistic equivalent of a crack house.

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Seven's chequebook journalism is a disgrace for which it should be held accountable via Crikey crikey.com.au/2024/04/04/sev…