Author Archives

• Rarely used laws? Depends who you ask

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-11-07 • ( 6 )

  “Rarely-used” is not synonymous with “rarely-used against me and people like me”.

• Mortgagees vs tenants

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-10-25 • ( 13 )

  Is a mortgagee required to give a tenant a notice to move out of a leased property, or does it have an immediate right to possession?

• Quickhit: Malaria vaccine now a reality

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-10-19 • ( 1 )

  Tests show GSK’s malaria vaccine just might work!

• Do you see what I see?

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-09-28 • ( 2 )

  The SMH is at it again.

• Capital punishment, the USA and Troy Davis

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-09-21 • ( 10 )

  

  A brief history of capital punishment and what it means for the Troy Davis case.

• Quickhit: Second Preference Groups in the NSW State election

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-03-25 • ( 11 )

  NSW State election 2011: why neither my local Liberal candidate for the Legislative Assembly, nor the Liberal and National party candidates for the Legislative Council, will be getting any preference at all from me.

• This is not madness

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-03-09 • ( 19 )

  TRIGGER WARNING (violence against children).

  This is not madness – it’s a sense of entitlement.

• Friday Hoyden: Dr Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English Bar

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-02-11 • ( 1 )

  “She now set her heart on being called to the bar (not, it seems, for her own sake but to offer free legal advice to the poor).”

• How many ways can you get it wrong?

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-02-08 • ( 5 )

  Two main “facts” in the headline. Two main “facts” completely and utterly wrong.

• Quickhit: Seriously, Coorey?

  By Jo Tamar on 2011-01-31 • ( 5 )

  Shorter Coorey: Nobody said anything about Gillard’s style etc until it became clear that she was only the prime minister of a minority government.