Defamation is a wild beast. It’s hard to understand and even more difficult to explain how it works. It is the Khloe Kardashian of the legal world. Here is the black and white: for something to be defamatory a person must be able to prove that someone has published a matter, as defined in the […]
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12 Dec 2017 /
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I guess we’re all a bit bruised by the Turnbull government’s announcement of a postal survey regarding same sex marriage. I know this will be examined in detail in this issue by people who are more knowledgeable than I. So, when I was preparing to write I looked at what I felt I can offer […]
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21 Sep 2017 |
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In 2002 former State Attorney General Jim McGinty introduced legislation that (among other things) expanded the term ‘de facto’ to include gay and lesbian couples. This was some of the most progressive legislation in our country at the time. Just two years later, John Howard amended the Marriage Act to make it mandatory that all […]
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2 Aug 2017 |
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