Originally a LinkedIn post from yesterday. What is special about 28 October ?28 October 1835 was a rare day in the history of the British Crown. It marks the acceptance and recognition of the Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand / He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni. It was …
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Commonwealth Government statistics on conditions being treated with medicinal cannabis as per the Special Access Scheme (B) The story of Bob the Ten Pound Pom is the true tale of a person, that for the rest of their life, may well need to take something medicinal on an almost-daily, if not daily basis. Any person …
Ask yourself the following questions before using any Artificial Intelligence Tool in the course of performing legal work The below one-pager list of questions and prompts is intended to build on the emerging slate of guidances regarding the pervasion of AI Tools in legal practice, best collated here by the Law Society of New South …
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Today is the Bicentenary of the NSW Supreme Court. It’s kind of a big day in the modern colony if you really think it through.It is 200 years to the day since the proclamation of an act of British Parliament that established an independent judiciary in the NSW Colony and Van Diemen’s Land (half the Aus …
Hunters Hill, Sydney’s Lothlorien For Sydneysiders who grew up west of Chatswood, Hunters Hill took on an almost mythical quality. It is the seventh richest suburb in Australia. In the 80s, us (alleged) westie kids saw it as an untouchable land of Disney castles. When school sport afforded you a passport to cross the invisible …
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The New England region of NSW (Kamilaroi/Gomeroi Country) politically, lies somewhere to the right of mainstream Australian Toryism. They keep returning Barnaby Joyce after all. Conservative Australia is notoriously extra conservative in all matters pertaining to drug law reform. Especially cannabis. The drug most regularly blamed by shock jocks as the reason why some people …
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If you are time poor, confused by the media and sick of the ugliness or just want Saturday to be over with (and also wish to feel you’ve done the right thing), run this Yes/No list of questions past yourself If you’re undecided or a soft No voter for any of the above reasons, here’s …
(Guardian-owned image) Pill Testing is essential in upcoming likely festival heatwave conditions: the summer calculus of risk has changed. Another summer littered with the premature and preventable deaths of young people. Another summer where the NSW government, armed with sound coronial findings and decades of expert advice, appears set to stall on implementing some very …
By far and away the most common expression of anguish I hear from workers who are prescribed medicinal cannabis products is a fear that, if workplace and roadside drug testing laws doesn’t hurriedly adapt, they will be back on a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) for life. The thought fills some of them with terror. …
Bob was born in the UK in 1965. He emigrated with his folks as a ‘ten-pound pom’ to Western Australia in 1970. Bob’s old man qualified for the scheme as a welder, perhaps because the Western Australian sons of the Squattocracy were fast at extracting wealth from the land but lacked muscle in building things. English Northerners …
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