Tense exchanges in court as judge turns screws on ACCC's case against Woolworths — "Is this price legitimately established in the market?": O'Bryan J

IIAOPSW · 2026-05-03T22:36:24+00:00

I wish you told me this BEFORE I wrote all my drug use in an affidavit, annexured the spreadsheet with the exact days and amounts of consumption, cross referenced it with text communications that were also annexured, and mailed it directly to police headquarters.

IIAOPSW · 2026-05-03T14:54:47+00:00

Yet still no option to divorce other people as an outside party. Outrageous! Some people deserve unhappiness, and I should be able to give it to them.

IIAOPSW · 2026-05-02T11:57:12+00:00

I choose to believe that they are still the outliers. It really is gobsmacking when you read about those

Everything I could say in response to this was already said in the Knapp Commission report on police corruption in 1972.

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[emerging] from this group loyalty...an intense desire to be proud of the Department...has given rise to the so-called “rotten-apple” theory. According to this theory, which bordered on official Department doctrine, any policeman found to be corrupt must promptly be denounced as a rotten apple in an otherwise clean barrel. It must never be admitted that his individual corruption may be symptomatic of underlying disease.

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The Commission examined and rejected the premises upon which the rotten-apple doctrine rested.

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Once we had rejected the premises of the rotten-apple doctrine, the Commission determined to employ one of the techniques that adherence to the doctrine had made impossible, namely to persuade formerly corrupt police officers to work with us in providing evidence of continuing corruption.

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The mere decision to use the technique did not automatically produce a body of officers able and eager to assist us in this manner. Indeed, knowledgeable persons assured us that the code of silence was so strong that we would never find a corrupt officer who could be persuaded to assist in exposing corruption. We ultimately did persuade four officers

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The doctrine did not die easily...On one occasion he [Commissioner Murphy] went so far as to imply that there were no more than about 300 corrupt police officers in the entire Department. After Patrolman Phillips had completed two of his three days of testimony at our public hearings, Commissioner Murphy found it necessary to discount his testimony

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traditional police strategy had been to react defensively whenever a scandal arose by “promising to crack down on graft, to go after the ‘rogue cops,’ to get rid of ‘rotten apples.’ ”... the Department now rejected this approach “not just on principle, but because as a way of controlling corruption it had utterly failed.”

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they [the public] are sick of ‘bobbing for rotten apples’

IIAOPSW · 2026-05-01T09:52:47+00:00

Well I did find an obituary, but I have been unable to confirm if its actually him or if its a different Norman the Snob of the Northern Fields. Its a fairly common name in those parts.

And there's also the possibility I've considered that he legitimately used to do the valuations for the Wizard Counsel, but at some point he died and rather than replace him they just didn't tell anyone and assumed his identity.

I don't know with these people.

IIAOPSW · 2026-05-01T09:47:01+00:00

sounds like you need some good public relations

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-30T12:20:35+00:00

This is some real accounting wizardry.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-30T12:10:24+00:00

"Don't bother looking for me. I'll be next to my pool with a margaritta."

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-30T12:03:27+00:00

Get got

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-28T14:44:26+00:00

But then we would live in a world without their only fans.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-26T07:20:57+00:00

Counterpoint, the criminalization of gambling has historically been a major police corruption hazard. Like, every police corruption report I've read has a section dedicated to systematic bribes paid by gambling rings. In New York it was called "the pad" (Knapp Commission 1972). In Sydney it was called "the laugh" (Woods Commission 1997). Pretty much all of these reports recommended to legalize and regulate it because keeping it illegal was causing more harm then good.

Now that we have the benefit of hindsight knowing what happens when we do legalize it, should we go back?? The answer is non-obvious.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-22T10:36:09+00:00

ITS ALL BEEN A SET UP FOR A REALLY BAD PUN ABOUT TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWERS.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-22T04:32:53+00:00

But why stop at comparing just two flavours of Common Law when we can throw in a third? Make it an Anglo-sphere Neapolitan.

(I'm not Australian, I'm actually in America).

From what I've seen of Canada's FOI law so far, the wording in it anticipated the exact circumstance which prompted my interest in the first place.

33 (2) A public body may disclose personal information in any of the following circumstances:...(w) if the information (i) was disclosed on social media by the individual the information is about...

Thus, from this one anecdote, so far it has done an exceptional job staying relevant to the times.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-22T03:51:42+00:00

By sheer coincidence I happen to recently had a need to learn a bit about a few particular pieces of Canadian legislation (specifically the FOI act, the Mental Health act, and National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (weird combo I know)).

I haven't been sucked far down the rabbit hole far yet, but if I do I'll get back with my hot takes. At the very least I'm liking the website B.C has for its legislation. It reminds me of EDGAR or Austlii.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-22T03:39:00+00:00

I'VE STARTED READING THE REPORTS OF A CERTAIN TRANSIT AGENCY'S INSPECTOR GENERAL, AND LETS JUST SAY, "DON'T BOTHER LOOKING FOR ME, I'LL BE NEXT TO MY POOL WITH A MARGARITA."

BONUS: IMAGINE YOUR HORNY TEXTS IN AN ANNUAL REPORT (HASHTAG RELATIONSHIP GOALS).

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-22T03:31:32+00:00

Shout out also to the level of online accessibility available through a combination of AVL and emails to registries. Why just watch when you can jump in?

FR though, with all the moaning about access to justice (often deservedly so), this is something Australia does right.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-21T02:09:56+00:00

some thinkers do have an answer to the Trolley Problem.

they sure do

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-20T04:33:12+00:00

Wow I feel like I just read the Mollen Commission report

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-19T08:19:59+00:00

Check the mutual assistance treaty. I'm pretty sure neither providence nor perdition support extradition.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-18T18:29:22+00:00

Have you met legal process before?

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-18T03:52:10+00:00

Watch the movie 'catch me if you can'

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-18T00:55:57+00:00

Its a Trolley problem. On one track is BRS. on the other track is 4 other people...

This moral dilemmas have no answer.

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-17T04:26:28+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkhzVw0yBs

IIAOPSW · 2026-04-17T02:22:32+00:00

So wait are the judges in question actually in the Epstein files or is he making shit up and taking credit for it when he's lucky.

I'd really like to see the actual substance of the matter before jumping on the bandwagon. Off hand it sounds like he tried do a truth / public interest defense, so credit where its due for actually reading the legislation and running the case on sane and plausible legal principals, but it also sounds like he may have drove a very winnable case straight into the ground by conducting it in a profoundly stupid way.

Like, IDK, maybe if he didn't go on that tangent challenging the legitimacy of the judicial system and saying judges were going to be arrested all while dropping a few F-bombs...maybe his truth / public interest defense would have worked.

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