A guest post today from Darren Ferrari, a Melbourne barrister and PhD student, on the way that so many journos have been dismissive of the quality of the government’s legal advice, due to the fact that the High Court ruled against them. Political pundits commenting on legal issues, what could go wrong? In the wake [...]

Rob Corr challenges some of Dr Keven Donnelly’s claims in The Drum, regarding the Gonski review into education funding. Perhaps Dr Donnelly is a bit hasty in his condemnation of the Nous Group report, given that he seems not to have read the whole thing.

On Monday David van Gend, of the Family Council of Queensland was published in The Australian, making his argument against marriage equality. Last night I asked twitter to find an intern for us so that his arguments wouldn’t be left uncontested. What I received were two excellent, very different, contributions from David Byrnes and Heath [...]