S P Murray

An essay on Yeats, Auden and Eliot from Colm Toibin in the @lrb.co.uk had me dwelling on Yeats penning:

Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.

For weeks since Christmas, I’ve been devoted to my two year old niece who’s fighting a rare form of childhood leukaemia - and her not much older brother who’s doing his best to navigate this unsettling world.

They’ve given me a sense of perspective I’ve never had to now, calling on all my sinews

My query was knitting focused - but thank you for conserving fruit!

Any yarns?

I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way?

The judgment in Monis v The Queen - the court split 3-3 (on gender lines) so the NSWCA judgment prevailed - ruling agains Monis’ challenge to his conviction on implied freedom of political communication grounds www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

Virginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commission Judgments handed down by former high court judge Virginia Bell and another contender, former Federal Court of Australia chief justice James Allsop, are under scrutiny as the government decides on a ro...

Objections to former High Court judge Virginia Bell seemingly raise her judgment in Brown v Tasmania concerning the right to protest but neglect to mention her upholding the constitutional validity of the criminal laws used against Lindt siege gunman Man Haron Monis www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Happy Release of the Commonwealth Government Cabinet Papers Under the Twenty Year Rule to all those who celebrate www.naa.gov.au/explore-coll... #archives #cabinet #HowardGovernment

Matthew Rhys is in talks with Netflix regarding a production of Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker”

Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it …

On the passing of Sir Tom Stoppard, an occasion to revisit Kenneth Tynan's 1977 New Yorker profile which did as much as anything to create the image of Stoppard we have to this day, but came well before many of the works that made his reputation www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...

Pull quote from SMH profile of Ryan Papenhuyzen: “It’s nice to be wanted,” Papenhuyzen said. “Gus was very impressive. We had a lot of great chats, not even about footy, but about golf, about books.”

“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German

Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta...

Last submissions were in June 2024, after 15 weeks of evidence over 9 months from late 2023

High profile surgeon Munjed Al Muderis has lost a Federal Court defamation action against the Nine Network and newspapers after the respondents made out defences of contextual truth and public interest journalism #auslaw

The published reasons of the NSW Court of Appeal rejecting Gareth Ward MP's bid to prevent the NSW Legislative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament #nswpol #nswlaw www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/198...

Member for Kiama and convicted rapist Gareth Ward loses his bid to prevent the NSW Legsilative Assembly from moving to expel him from Parliament after the Court of Appeal ruled against him #nswpol

However, Justice Darryl Rangiah says it is open to the intervening parties who were covered by a suppression and non-publication order made by him at the commencement of proceedings in February to take their own contempt action. as they are "most naturally placed" to conduct the case #auslaw

The SMH and The Age, and senior editors, lawyers and journalists have avoided referral to the Federal Court Registrar for contempt over its reporting of the Antoinette Lattouf case against the ABC #auslaw

ITA text for “Little Boy Blue”

I can read this, even though my primary school learning was largely Cuisenaire rods, Behind the News, Roald Dahl and penmanship

But then again, I can hold my own on the 1% Club

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Singleton family agree to judgment in favour of Nine in landmark court battle The NSW Supreme Court made the orders on the eve of a two-day trial.

Ahead of a NSW Supreme Court trial which had significant implications for media use of images posted on social media, the family of Westfields Bondi Junction victim, Dawn Singleton, agree to judgment in favour of Nine, reports @mwhitbourn.bsky.social #auslaw www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

British Lions make a move on the NSW Waratahs at Allianz Stadium

Lions at play

British Lions warm up at Allianz Stadium ahead of clash with NSW Waratahs

Lions at rest

My votes for the top 100 films of the 21st Century

I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences

The letters in the NYT Spelling Bee have been used to spell: “OnlineBeef”

Come on!

I was among this disgraced judge’s victims. Attempts to honour him are an insult The former High Court judge Dyson Heydon is being rehabilitated in some parts of the legal profession. It’s galling.

Rachael Patterson Collins pens a reckoning with former High Court justice Dyson Heydon and his defenders over claims of sexual harassment - and has the receipts #auslaw #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...

Richard Roxburgh models an Aran knit cardigan while portraying corrupt NSW detective Roger Rogerson in “Blue Murder”

And Roger Rogerson in a sensible Aran knit cardigan (modelled by Richard Roxburgh)

I read it for a reference to Kingsmillism - I was not disappointed

Bill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91

Bill Moyers, press secretary for LBJ who fell out with him, and subsequently a stalwart of public television, dies aged 91.

Famously declined to be interviewed by LBJ biographer Robert Caro, holding out to the end www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

To clarify, the award is $70,000 in compensation for non-economic loss.

The Court will hold a hearing to determine if the ABC should be subject to a pecuniary penalty at a future date

Breaking: Federal Court Justice Darryl Rangiah finds ABC unfairly dismissed journalist Antoinette Lattouf for her expression of political opinions and awards her $70,000 in damages