The model litigant: government as a 'moral exemplar' in public service employment disputes

John Wilson
Published: December 1, 2015 - 12:15AM

It has long been accepted that the government must hold itself to high standards when conducting litigation. There was, as High Court chief justice Samuel Griffith observed in 1912, an "old-fashioned ( Read more... )

It's Saturday night here and it's been raining on and off all day with more storms expected.  Given the rumbling of thunder and the heavy rain I can hear now, it doesn't bode well for tomorrow's Dog School - sorry Jerry!  I've taken the week off work and so will spend the rest of this week chillaxing - catching up on reading, some Hong Kong and ( Read more... )

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Today's songs were originally going to form part of a post for audiography's theme World Smoothie, but I got lazy and gave up.

The first song is Hong Kong chanteuse Sandy Lam singing a version of Robbie Williams' song Better Man in Mandarin. The second is Treaty by Australian aboriginal band Yothu Yindi. It's got didgeridoo, a message about reconciliation ( Read more... )

Two unrelated articles that I read recently that were really interesting.

• About the difference between Sadness and Depression - and the danger of confusing the two ( Read more... )