Matt Dennien
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🔮 Disaster Recovery Minister Ann Leahy said she had sent an open letter to the Albanese government last week signed by every mayor in the state, and other stakeholders.
🔮 “[This is] something that I have been working as attorney with the New South Wales Attorney-General Michael Daley on for several months, and the reason why I was so determined to support that application was because victims deserve … their time in court, and that’s what they will now get in New South Wales for that person.
🔮 On Monday’s agenda was a bill floated by the Crisafulli government last sitting week, which would make prisoners on life sentences jump through extra hoops to get parole.
🔮 A Victorian CFMEU insider and former industrial lawyer has made a rare public intervention to question whether Queensland’s powerful probe into the union and construction sector, and its looming Victorian counterpart, will deliver on their promised actions.
🔮 The public probe has returned for a second day of evidence this week surrounding the May 2023 incident, which resulted in what Commissioner Stuart Wood described as a “riot” at the Dutton Park Cross River Rail station site.
🔮 The inquiry released images of 15 of the men – some of them masked – back in April, seeking to speak with them to ensure “all relevant perspectives are heard” about the “confrontational protest” of May 1, 2024, which culminated in a police escort.
🔮 The latter, according to the Legal Profession Act which sets up the process, are only eligible if they have never been a lawyer and have “high level experience and knowledge” in fields including consumer protection, business, and public administration.
And wouldn’t you know, two of the five tapped for that gig – revealed only with an update to a sprawling government appointment register – just happen to be former federal LNP MPs!
🔮 Queensland’s human rights watchdog has taken its first major swing at the Crisafulli government, offering a scathing assessment of a proposed bail crackdown that is feared will ultimately lift crime in the state.
🔮 By everyone, of course, we mean those with thoughts about their public sector employment they would maybe only dare lay out in the free-text general feedback box of the anonymised questionnaire.
🔮 We were initially knocked back entirely by legal services manager Peter Cardiff because the 46 pages and one video found were deemed “not in the public interest” and would reveal personal information about candidates.
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