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S P Murray

@smurray38.bsky.social

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Dec 8

A dilettante in the fields of law, politics, media, electoral administration, books, theatre, galleries, libraries, archives and museums

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 15d

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

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

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.

www.smh.com.au

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lions at play

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

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lions at rest

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

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 28

Come on!

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

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

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.

www.smh.com.au

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 28

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

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

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 27

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...

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Jun 10

It’s really funny to say that cameras aren’t allowed in courtrooms but that someone can paint a little picture of what happened

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 10

Must dig out Chris Masters’ “Jonestown” to see definitively if it was Media Watch or HG Nelson who first exploited this incident to give Jones the “Parrot” moniker

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 10

Between Damir Dokic, Frederick Forsyth and Sly Stone, now’s the time to approach Births, Deaths and Marriages about a name change if yours alliterates

S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 10

Shared the news of the passing of Frederick Forsyth to a colleague, who was quite taken aback.

Then we shared memories of the time when Alan Jones wrote a column in the Sun-Herald on the future of petro-politics in the Middle East based on insights passed on lifted from a Forsyth novel

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S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · Jun 9

What wonderful recognition for your selfless contributions to Newcastle!