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On November 4, 2021, Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) issued its highly anticipated Emergency Temporary Standard (the “ETS” or the “Mandate”) requiring U.S. employers with 100 or more employees to either: (a) implement a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for employees, or (b) adopt a policy allowing employees to choose between vaccination or weekly COVID-19 Read More …

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave: spend a zillion dollars to build Australia’s electric/hydrogen highway.  Naturally, this fuelish policy will be supported and accelerated by the Greens/ALP coalition. They all need to study the history of transport in Australia. Soon after the First Fleet landed, explorers, prospectors, and settlers headed inland seeking Read More …

1. In 2001 the states referred their corporations powers to the Commonwealth by engaging section 51(xxxvii).      (xxxvii)  matters referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Parliament or Parliaments of any State or States, but so that the law shall extend only to States by whose Parliaments the matter is referred, or Read More …

Taxpayers are facing a hefty bill for rare but significant coronavirus vaccine injuries, with at least 10,000 people planning to claim under the federal government’s no-fault indemnity scheme. Services Australia is building an online portal, to be launched next month, for uncapped claims above $5000 from those who suffered injury and loss of income due Read More …

McKenzie Friend Traditionally, a “McKenzie friend” is an adviser who assists a self-represented accused by prompting him or her, taking notes and quietly making suggestions. This person does not need to be legally trained and may not take part in the proceedings as an advocate (McKenzie v McKenzie [1970] 3 All ER 1034; Collier v Read More …

Different legal usages of the word “declare” and “declaration” throw up the need to consider what it is that a court does when it makes a declaration. It is also necessary to consider what it does not do. That raises the question whether a declaration is, strictly speaking, an exercise of power at all. A Read More …

Since the Pandemic Potential (COVID-19) Declaration 2020 from the Governor General of Australia, we have been living in the state of exception, which may be described as a liminal space between law and life where the law no longer applies and where pure force appropriates lawlessness unto itself in order to make itself the law. Read More …

  This review examines quarantine systems and processes in all States and Territories except Victoria, met with relevant agencies and reviewed hotel quarantine arrangements and witnessed passenger arrivals. A model of good practice in an end to end quarantine system, together with the role of coordination of decision making, risk mitigation, community safety and patient Read More …

They see themselves as “very special” people, deserving of admiration and, consequently, have difficulty empathizing with the feelings and needs of others … Not only do dictators commonly show a “pervasive pattern of grandiosity,” they also tend to behave with a vindictiveness often observed in narcissistic personality disorder. Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong (or Tse-tung), Josef Read More …