Guilty Pigs, @drkatybarnett's and my new book full of stories about animal law, is available at bookstores and as an ebook ()

@DominicVillaSC In part, because AID stands for Agency for International Development. I guess it should be USAAID?

"if a change in the law like that was to come about, it would most likely only be the result of persistent misuses of power. To paraphrase your closing addresses, this is all entirely a matter for you. Have a great conference."

"EDELMAN J: You do not seek to challenge the conclusion – the constitutional holding – in Burns v Corbett. MR LIM: No, your Honour, I do not.": Why not? The constitutional holding was 4-3, and the 4 included the troika.

@austlii "we refer in particular to... the judgments of Justice McHugh and Justice Kirby in that case, and the judgments of Chief Justice Kiefel and Justice Keane and Justice Gageler in Ruddick, where ‑ ‑ ‑ STEWARD J: The dissenting judgments. MR VILLA: Can I come to that, your Honour"

('not required' strikes me as incorrect. TJ's ought to direct themselves on Liberato in any trial where a jury would have to be directed. Rather, the question on appeal should have been whether the absence caused a miscarriage of justice, which it seemingly didn't.)

"In 2023 the rates of sexual violence reported to police reached a 31-year high. We must do better to change this trajectory.": By... discouraging reporting? Decades of personal safety surveys show adult sexual violence as steady:

Australia nearly meeting its national target on female intimate partner homicide hasn't so far been reported in the Age, the Guardian, the ABC...

"Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin said the institute’s collection of data was important to build the evidence base to inform effective responses to the scourge plaguing Australian society, but acknowledged its “limitations”."