Thursday’s Royal Commission into Trade Union … hearing (12th June) ended as it began with legal argument over the exclusion of a number of paragraphs contained in Bruce Wilson’s sworn statement. The paragraphs concerned dealt primarily with Wilson’s allegation that he was offered $200,000 by Harry Nowicki to alter his testimony thereby implicating Julia Gillard […]
Storify by @Boeufblogginon reporting on the Royal Commission into Unions on the 11th June #TURC
June 13, 2014
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Tinkler at #ICAC: The art of of good and bad cops by @boeufblogginon
May 20, 2014
#icac Watson is on the point of corralling Tinkler in the questioning of Tinkler. Very clever. — Joan Evatt (@Boeufblogginon) May 16, 2014 Law students should have been at the ICAC hearing on Friday afternoon when Nathan Tinkler was being questioned. They would have seen a fine example of corralling a witness and one […]
Farmers unite behind the environment on the #leardblockade: @_stephwilliam_ reports
April 12, 2014
[clear] Activists from the Lock the Gate campaign, including ecologists, fear mining companies such as Whitehaven Coal will exploit the Leard State Forest and overlook local concerns about the safety of endangered flora and fauna in the area. “In the Leard State Forest, there are 396 species of native flora and fauna: 34 are […]
Reza’s death demands a judicial inquiry, but where is the pressure? @GregDyett reports
February 27, 2014
[clear] By Margo Kingston @margokingston1 27th February 2014 Here is the transcript and audio of this evening’s SBS World Radio item by Greg Dyett @GregDyett on the Manus Island detention centre review and whether it will do the job. I’m thrilled there are a few journalists who understand how important this matter is for the […]
Nancy Cato’s hopes for the Royal Commission into Institutional sexual abuse of children
April 29, 2013
By Nancy Cato April 29, 2013 This is my final attempt to face my demons, or at least some of them. It’s only taken 37 years. In 1976 as a young mother with a newborn babe – my third child – I read a story of a shocking case of Child Abuse; it told of […]
Community Cabinet: Policy sounding without the press gallery fury, froth and bubble
April 20, 2013
By Kevin Rennie April 20, 2013 Source: Labor View from Bayside There were quite a few surprises at Julia Gillard’s Community Cabinet on 17 April 2013, hosted by Norwood Secondary College in Melbourne’s eastern suburb of Ringwood. Cabinet members held one-on-one interviews before a public forum that lasted over an hour. The government school is in […]
