The Full Bench of the High Court sitting in Canberra this week is listed to hear the Appeal in M112/19 Pell and The Queen on Wednesday 11th March. (more…)
Rosemary O’Grady
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. Anthropology and Perspective
One of the rare pleasures of working to salvage documentation of a vandalized archive is that, sometimes, a damaged jewel surfaces amidst the rubble. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. It bodes well for the ALP’s future
The successful outcome of Labor Leader Albanese’s nomination for office of a disaffected Queensland National was a deft move. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. The Pell Appeal Judgements: One Perspective.
In the majority judgement disallowing Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against criminal convictions, Chief Justice Ferguson and Appeal Court President Maxwell set-out the task that had faced the three appellate judges. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. For the Record
On the evening of Monday 16 September 2019 at a Melbourne bookshop, Allen & Unwin launched Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell by Lucie Morris-Marr. (more…)
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Hail & Farewell
To Australian Catholics the date 3 December is a holiday. In the Calendar of Saints this date marks the feast of Australia’s ‘patron saint’, sixteenth century Spanish Jesuit and companion of St Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, colloquially Jesuits, Francis Xavier. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. Lost leaders.
The first words addressed by the Hon David Hurley AC as Governor-General were to the Australian First People and their successors, including, specifically, ‘future leaders’. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. Death of a Real-Life Publisher.
In June this year I posted in these pages a piece entitled ‘ Meanings of War’. It reported the publication of new translations and editions of the German-language classic Simplicius Simplicissimus, first-published in its original German edition in 1669. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. Remembering Stars.
Some ninety-odd years ago this week was born in the bush in the rugged far north-west of Western Australia a child given the Christian name of David. (more…)
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ROSEMARY O’GRADY. Meanings of War.
As war memoirs go, the horrors of the conflict concluded by the Treaty of Westphalia, 1648, have long stood in a class of their own. They are also the subject of the autobiographical, first novel of the German language. (more…)