Friday, 12th March 2010
The Federal Opposition and unions are calling for an inquiry into the Federal Government's rebate on home insulation, following the deaths of three workers. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says two men have been electrocuted and another has died from heat stress while installing ceiling batts over the last six weeks.
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Source: ABC News
THE One.Tel special purpose liquidator Paul Weston says he is close to securing funding to start legal action in relation to the withdrawal of a $132 million rights issue in the telco's dying days.
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Source: Sky News
THE NATIONAL Consumer Credit Protection and Financial Services Modernisation reforms have passed through the Senate.
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Source: brokernews.com.au
LOAN PRACTICES of a Townsville bank for Storm Financial customers were questioned as early as 2006, two years before it collapsed, a court has heard.
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Source: AAP
A LANDMARK $9.6 million compensation deal has finally been brokered for a boy who suffered horrific injuries after he was sucked down a school drain.
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Source: News.com.au
SA DIRECTOR OF Public Prosecutions Stephen Pallaras QC has renewed calls for the introduction of an independent corruption commission in South Australia.
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Source: The Advertiser
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THIS WEEK ON THE LAW REPORT:
GANDHI & THE MARCH TO DANDI
EXACTLY 80 years ago - Mahatma Gandhi set off on the March to Dandi – a 390km walk that shook the British empire to its core and ignited a flame in the hearts of millions of Indians.
How did Gandhi - a retiring commercial lawyer morph into a feisty human rights advocate and then morph again into a brilliant political strategist?
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THE AUSTRALIAN Institute of Criminology has released the following publication:
Confidence in the criminal justice system
by David Indermaur and Lynne Roberts
[http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current series/tandi/381-400/tandi387.aspx]
Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice paper no. 387
Using results of the latest Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this paper examines how confidence in the criminal justice system needs to be understood as a construct with distinct differences in levels of confidence between the three major components of the system—police, courts and corrections.
Source: AIC
UNIONS cannot apply to take industrial action to try to restrict the use of contract labour, according to an Australian ruling that a legal expert said highlighted an "absurd" aspect of Labor's workplace laws.
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Source: The Australian
Some legals have been fortunate enough to snag a tough-to-come-by invitation to Google Wave. As only a precious few invitations have come from the Wave HQ, the contact for many has been limited. Being a new beta-platform nobody fully knows what the Wave will be, nor the uses that will ultimately shape it. We only know that Google has put a lot of time into the project, and thrown a considerable amount of developer power behind it. Thanks to Twitter and the generous folk at the University of Queensland @foolkitlegal received a Wave invite, so we will be also road-testing this amazing next-generation communications tool from Google over the coming months.
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Laws have been introduced to modernise the Australian national personal insolvency scheme.
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Source: The ARC Review
19 February - 14 March
THE ADELAIDE FRINGE Festival is back and set to take over the city and continues from February 19 to March 14.
It's the largest arts event in Australia so whether its cabaret, comedy, dance, film, music or theatre there is something for everyone. Visit adelaidefringe.com.au for more details and to book.
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THE GUARDIAN newspaper has claimed victory in a recent legal battle about reporting UK Parliamentary proceedings. It said it had been stopped from reporting an MP's question to a minister by London lawyers Carter Ruck. The paper's website said the question from Paul Farrelly MP "was related to Trafigura toxic waste scandal". The newspaper said it had been made subject to "Kafka-esque" restrictions and stopped from mentioning a question to be answered by a minister last week. Before claiming victory the Guardian had said it could not report which MP asked the question, who the minister was, and why the gagging order was imposed.
The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger had said media laws were "doubly menacing" when applied to reporting of proceedings of Parliament - usually covered by qualified privilege, which gives some legal protection when reporting statements which might otherwise be considered defamatory.
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Source: BBC
A tribute to Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace
Edited by Ralph Shlomowitz
HB 272 PP 230 x 165 ISBN 9781862547872 $60.00 Economics / History - Wakefield Press
An abstract from Wakefield Press:
THIS BOOK consists of papers prepared for a mini-conference on 30 September 2005, held to honour the careers of the three founders of the Economics discipline at Flinders University: Keith Jackson Hancock, Metodey Polasek and Robert Henry Wallace. The contributors include their ex-colleagues and friends, and the papers cover diverse topics in the discipline of Economics and Economic History which have been closely linked at Flinders University.
CLICK HERE for more details about The Flinders Essays and the keynote economic addresses delivered at this 2005 conference at Flinders University.
A BLUE BUCKET logo is at the centre of a row between two Canberra organisations over which had the idea first. Not-for-profit water awareness group Riversmart registered the blue bucket concept as its primary awareness tool in January, along with the slogan "save a bucket a day". Riversmart CEO Bill Phillips then briefed community leaders, politicians and business groups - including Canberra's water authority ACTEW - about the campaign which is shortly due to launch. ACTEW then launched its "Save 10" campaign featuring blue buckets in television commercials and press advertisements. Mr Phillips says ACTEW has clearly breached Riversmart's trademark. "This was our unique concept, it was our point of difference, it was the way that we were going to get out there and get noticed."
ACTEW denies it has infringed Riversmart's intellectual property.
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Source: ABC News
THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL government has opened the door for regulation of local content on the internet according to an address to delegates at the recent SPAA media conference by senator Conroy.
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Source: AustralianIT.com.au
