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<title>Substance, spin and the first year of Labor</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199938735</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Indeed, under the guidance of the industrious Attorney-General Robert McClelland the Government went further and  ...  opposition, the necessary amendment to the Family Law Bill and the Same Sex Relationships (Superannuation)  ...  and concern for justice and equality in Australian life. Robert McClelland deserves 10/10. John Challis  ...
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<title>&#39;Martina will win I&#39;m A Celebrity...&#39; says her controversial ex lover who was on the other end of the tennis star&#39;s savage &#39;divorce&#39;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199934233</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 14:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  other celebs in the middle of the Australian jungle Today, Judy runs a riding school  ...  time the pair were together. In ugly court scenes the former lovers clashed in the  ...  on the tennis court crumbled in the law courts - and the vicious battle marked  ...
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<title>Penguin apologises to lawyer</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199932338</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 14:17 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Shots author, journalist Adam Shand, reached an out-of-court settlement with Mr Defteros earlier this month  ...  an apology over an article in The New Zealand Herald. Mr Defteros told Media there were  ...  against Mr Defteros, who returned to practising law last year and has been steadily building  ...
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<title>&#39;Sophistry&#39; in High Court talks process</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199931997</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 14:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  might not otherwise possess, says the NSW Attorney-General. John Hatzistergos said the view of the  ...  that of the dean of a local law school&quot;. He was pressing for meaningful consultation.  ...  as chief justice before settling on West Australian Robert French. They included heads of courts,  ...
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<title>Shameful secret of our family murder epidemic</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199931336</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  women and dozens of children die in Australia each year at the hands of violent  ...  the way homicide data is collected. Family law changes that force shared custody and mediation  ...  risk of harm, they say. The Victorian Attorney-General, Rob Hull, announced yesterday his state would  ...
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<title>Desperate bids for survival</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199931324</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  mediation with him thanks to the family law amendments brought in under the Howard government.  ...  Fatima was not a permanent resident in Australia and her husband used that as a  ...  we have to wait for the Family Court.&quot; Her husband continually taunted her. He said:  ...
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<title>Paul Kelly: First among equals</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199931233</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 13:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  drain on subsidies to help keep the Australian car industry as inefficient as possible? Squandering  ...  PM who does a few things. To judge Rudd as having achieved nothing neglects the  ...  warming oceans of the world. Sure, the law of unintended consequences bites Rudd in the  ...
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<title>Law firms can expect major infrastructure work for 09</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199930290</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 13:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  be in demand. The government body Infrastructure Australia has a A$20bn pool of funds and  ...  in fast-tracking projects, it is likely that lawyers will need to work more productively. &quot;If  ...
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<title>Collins retains role in New Zealand firm</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199927953</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  directors of Virionyx, which operates from Auckland, New Zealand, and is about to test an HIV  ...  of interest, said Peter Reese, a Buffalo lawyer who served on the Erie County Charter  ...  But he was unaware of any state law that would restrict such activities by a  ...
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<title>Inter-caste wedlock still fights taboos in India</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199925029</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 12:06 GMT</pubDate>
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...  after a Supreme Court ruling in which judges described several high-profile honor killings as acts  ...  fire that killed his pregnant daughter, his son-in-law and his 3-year-old grandson. He told investigators  ...  cases have been reported in England and Australia. Encouraging inter-caste marriages would break down discrimination  ...
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<title>Time is up for WorkChoices, says Gillard</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199920940</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bargaining. It will also establish Fair Work Australia as the new industrial tribunal to replace  ...  for three weeks, feature former federal court judge Rod Madgwick condemning the proposed laws as  ...  all Australian workers are equal before the law. Construction workers are subject to industrial laws  ...
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<title>The search for DGM 2598</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199920904</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 10:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  soon be fought out in a Canadian court. On Oct. 24, Olivia Pratten, the 26-year-old  ...  is a leading national specialist on reproductive law. At a conference this month of the  ...  she said. From Sweden to England to New Zealand, other countries have created independent bodies to  ...
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<title>Get set for Kirby unplugged</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199920014</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 10:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  behind him, Kirby&#39;s creative attempts to make law have become little more than irrelevant footnotes  ...  has lost the judicial plot. And NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos was right to condemn Kirby  ...  that controls judicial appointments. With talk in Australia of reforming the appointment process for judges,  ...
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<title>NZ General Election 2008 - Official Results</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199919129</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 10:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has also been completed as required by law and the master roll for each electorate  ...  Party 157,613 6.72 0 9 9 ACT New Zealand 85,496 3.65 1 4 5 Mori Party  ...  recount must be filed with the District Court no later than Wednesday 26 November 2008.  ...
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<title>WorkChoices to be &#39;swept away&#39; this week</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=199908355</link>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2008 07:55 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bargaining. It will also establish Fair Work Australia as the new industrial tribunal to replace  ...  for three weeks, feature former federal court judge Rod Madgwick condemning the proposed laws as  ...  all Australian workers are equal before the law. Construction workers are subject to industrial laws  ...
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