S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Federal Court racial vilification action brought against former SBS newsreader Mary Kostakidis by Zionist Federation of Australia CEO Alon Cassuto over tweets featuring a former Hezbollah leader has been discontinued, with no order as to costs 155
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 12/08/2026X Corp has a win against the eSafety Commissioner in the Federal Court, arguing it was not required to lodge an electronic services industry code as it was required to comply with another category as a social media service www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...judgments.fedcourt.gov.auX Corp v eSafety Commissioner [2026] FCA 1123 013
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 04/08/2026All it needs is Gretel Killeen putting eye masks on the participants and asking them who are the “traitors” 010
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A fascinating and compelling interview with writer and critic Merve Emre by @suzygracias.bsky.social at Kill Your Darlings. It seriously has you reconsidering how you approach reading, writing and thinkingkillyourdarlings.com.auThe New Yorker Critic with Her Eye on AustraliaAn interview with Merve Emre 254
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My defo/unconscionable termination streams are getting crossed 180
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Text of Opening Address by counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption in Operation Rosny, examining the links between Liberal Party operatives, a developer and a hotelier and whether they procured/made prohibited donations #nswpol www.icac.nsw.gov.au/ArticleDocum...icac.nsw.gov.au 021
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Judgment of the Full Federal Court dismissing One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson’s appeal, seeking to overturn finding she racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi in a tweet telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan” #auspol #auslaw www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...judgments.fedcourt.gov.auHanson v Faruqi [2026] FCAFC 96 083
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has lost an appeal against a Federal Court judgment that she racially vilified Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, in a tweet telling her to "piss off back to Pakistan", with the Full Federal Court rejecting the appeal #auslaw #auspol 14819
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Federal Court judgment in MacInnes v Wilson: Charlotte MacInnes has lost a defamation action against the director of her movie debut, Rebel Wilson, over claims MacInnes walked back allegations of sexual harassment by a producer #auslaw #defamation #defo www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju... 011
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Actor Charlotte MacInnes has lost her defamation action and breach of confidence claim against actor and director Rebel Wilson after Justice Elizabeth Raper found only one imputation conveyed but was not defamatory #auslaw #defamation 101
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees a Full Federal Court judgment in NSW MLC Mark Latham’s appeal against an award of damages for defaming independent MP Alex Greenwich in a vulgar tweet - and a cross appeal from Greenwich #auslaw #defo 040
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The new NSW District Court defamation list judge Penelope Wass SC is channelling her inner Hamill J in her case catchwords #auslaw #defo www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19e... 000
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Let’s see what A.I. has to say on the MacInnes v Wilson contretemps … #auslaw #defo 152
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Somebody needs to introduce the Canberra Times news bot to the ABC News bot for a tutorial on how not to intrude on the timeline 061
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Judgment of the NSW Court of Appeal declaring that anti-protest laws introduced by the NSW Government in the wake of the Bondi Massacre impermissibly burden the implied freedom of political communication #auslaw #nswpol www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d... 24827
Reposted by S P MurrayAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The machine may be more eloquent, it may generate far more dazzling images than we could ever draw, but it will never experience human truths. And so in art, literature and all other creative processes it is a cuckoo, pushing out the human to consume resources and generate hoarded wealth 56718
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 21/03/2026It’s not sparkling populism but instead a regional Bernardi 15814
Reposted by S P MurrayThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026It is very difficult to defeat the government on any terrorism judicial review It is also very difficult to defeat the government when challenging a statutory instrument, terrorism or otherwise. Legally this is a *huge* achievement for the applicants. 441893
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The UK High Court judgment ruling that the UK government’s proscription of the Palestine Action Group was unlawful www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...judiciary.uk 053
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 13/02/2026“‘How do you build a project around someone who doesn’t have any politics and hates the very idea of a larger project?’ asks [one defining] Starmerism.” A 3500 word epitaph for Starmerism, and a salutary lesson for those whose capacity exceeds their ambitions app.spectator.com.au/2026/02/11/a...app.spectator.com.au‘Authority is like virginity. Once it’s gone, it’s gone’: Inside Keir Starmer’s downfallYears ago, Peter Mandelson shared a key lesson with his protégé Morgan McSweeney. Reminiscing about his involvement in Labour’s 1987 general election campaign, he called it the ‘spray-paint election’.... 100
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 13/02/2026As a recent subscriber to Meanjin, I hope it prospers under QUT’s aegis, but I wonder how it will fare pitted against the distinct identity already secured by Griffith Review - how to balance a hometown sensibility with the needs of a broader audience 032
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Like lightning in a bottle, here @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social honours @kudelka.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...firstdogonthemoon.bsky.socialmr dog (@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social)This profile requires authentication to view. 020
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Was going to bristle at $13 for a sausage in a bun (ok, onion and red cabbage too) at an Ed Sheeran adjacent Olympic Park hostelry But then I remembered last night’s estimate of £19 postage for a book of lectures on Marx from Verso (I’m here for muscle to navigate a way through to the train home) 210
Reposted by S P MurrayPossum @pollytics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026[Redacted] It's that kind of day eh. 2251
Reposted by S P MurrayCarol Duncan @carolduncan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Where’s @colvinius when we need him? 😞 1141
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 10/02/2026There were so many Jon Kudelkas one could enjoy and appreciate: the sheer wheeze of him and First Dog on that crowd sourced whisky tour; the whimsy of his penguins in the Southerly; his insistence that you not trouble Tasmania with your presence … 171
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 28/01/2026An 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. 020
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 22/01/2026For 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 040
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I’m still in my Hawaiian floral print shirt and defamation season is already under way? 3151
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Objections 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...smh.com.auVirginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commissionJudgments 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... 3247
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Happy 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 074
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Ok, Netflix you already have my money, but if you need more, take it … 010
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 30/11/2025On 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... 012
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 29/09/2025“We bonded over Habermas’ treatment of Kierkegaard and Marx in Volume III of “Also a History of Philosophy” - in the original German 020
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Full text of Western Australian Supreme Court judgment in Reynolds v Higgins #auslaw ecourts.justice.wa.gov.au/eCourtsPorta... 101
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 08/08/2025High 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 210
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Member 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 161
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The 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 110
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I 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... 020
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Ahead 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...smh.com.auSingleton family agree to judgment in favour of Nine in landmark court battleThe NSW Supreme Court made the orders on the eve of a two-day trial. 010
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I don’t always have control of the remote - and in recent weeks, Paddington and Secret Life of Pets might have secured preferences 110
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Rachael 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...smh.com.auI was among this disgraced judge’s victims. Attempts to honour him are an insultThe former High Court judge Dyson Heydon is being rehabilitated in some parts of the legal profession. It’s galling. 13717
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Bill 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...nytimes.comBill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91 010
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Breaking: 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 413422
