The shadowy figure that used to stand behind a client in court is slowly coming forward, garnering media attention and blurring the line between legal advocate and spin doctor.
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JULIAN BURNSIDE
Left disconnected from reality on asylum seekers
The growing disconnection between progressive and most voters on asylum seekers is driven by the Left’s refusal to accept there are consequences to government policy.
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On Assange, government defiant in face of reality
The government’s insistence on ignoring the Obama administration’s investigation of Julian Assange is becoming increasingly untenable as public evidence mounts of a grand jury and a continuing campaign by the US government against him.
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The deterrent of death
If the good prospect of drowning is not a sufficient deterrent to stop asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by sea I find it hard to think what would be.
READ MOREHicks and the conspiracy theorists hijack the WikiLeaks debate
The longest round of applause at last night’s WikiLeaks forum at Sydney Town Hall was reserved for David Hicks…
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Dear Richmond: Burnside picks Wynne in direct mail salvo
Leading Melbourne QC Julian Burnside has thrown his weight behind endangered ALP housing minister Dick Wynne just weeks after calling the Labor party a “disgrace” and branding Wynne’s factional colleague Bronwyn Pike a hypocrite.
READ MOREBill of rights: good riddance on ‘bogus’ charter v lost chance
Australia’s charter of rights is dead on arrival. Good riddance, a human rights academic tells Crikey intern Patrick Tombola, but others like Julian Burnside lament the lost opportunity to recognise those on the margins of society.
READ MOREWhy Allen & Unwin should have settled Crikey-style
The same group of barristers who once defended Crikey in a legal blitz barristers again came together in the long-running defamation action that saw barrister Dyson Hore-Lacy awarded $630,000 in damages from publisher Allen & Unwin for Phil Cleary’s book Getting Away With Murder.
READ MOREBurnside: Australians are xenophobic
By and large, Australians aren’t racist, says Julian Burnside, but we are xenophobic. And for all our rhetoric on “multiculturalism”, our recent treatment of asylum seekers proves it.
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Can the media be trusted to tell the truth?
Can we trust the press to choose facts over finances? Julian Burnside, John Fairfax, Jonathan Holmes, Simon Longstaff, Catharine Lumby, Stephen Mayne and Mark Scott debate the issue of truth in media.
READ MOREABC Board: the nominations keep rolling in…
Bored with the ABC Board? Well, many Crikey readers don’t seem to be. I am still getting a couple of e-mails a day making fresh suggestions, as well as lobbying for and decrying of those already mentioned, writes Margaret Simons.
READ MOREHow cocaine and controversy launched Julian Burnside
Some people think that Melbourne lawyer Julian Burnside launched himself from obscurity to media stardom on the back of his appearances in the waterfront dispute and Tampa. Wrong. Burnside can thank former solicitor Andrew Fraser for bringing him to the media’s attention, writes Greg Barns.
READ MOREPolitical bite-sized meaty chunks
What do we read into this? … You don’t become a senior judge this way … Independent inquiry compromised?
READ MOREKostakidis not returning to SBS as morale hits rock bottom
The intriguing thing about yesterday’s meeting of SBS staff is that some people in management were entertaining the idea that Mary Kostakidis may actually return to the network.
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