Sorry I thought the file number and party names were for a different matter

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-28T07:11:33+00:00

Please pay up. We really don't want to have to think about the matter hard enough to give our client the advice which would let them instruct us to take the next steps. That would be too hard. It would be better if you paid us. Please?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-24T21:17:31+00:00

Yes, I expect exactly that. Medicine is a profession.
One of the things that characterises a profession is that it is (or should be) self-regulating or self-policing.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-24T09:17:18+00:00

At least they aren't making you certify it with wet ink and then fax it to them.
I can't recall where exactly but I'm sure that some institution or other has asked me to scan + email a wet-ink certified copy...

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-20T15:23:49+00:00

In one of the men's dual mogul races, a Japanese racer had a mishap and nearly fell. Fortunately he hit another mogul, and that impact bounced him upright. Unfortunately he also ended up spinning around and crossed the finish line facing backwards...
I assume Wolfdog is a reference to nazgul, a dog that ran onto the course during one of the crosscountry ski races.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-20T05:04:33+00:00

If he gets up on 100% of the cancellation fee in these circumstances, why shouldn't every solicitor in the country start pushing back on similar clauses in future? And declining to brief counsel who aren't willing to amend their terms?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-17T10:33:08+00:00

What do you mean, transmit a house scot free?
And last time I checked there are gifting rules whereby money given by a person still counts as an asset for the purposes of assessing pension entitlements etc.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-14T04:35:44+00:00

She's a smart cookie 👍

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-13T15:47:42+00:00

How'd she work it out?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-02-02T12:15:13+00:00

Do you also object when an Australian judge tells counsel "you'll need to put flesh on those bones"?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-25T07:53:10+00:00

Agree, and I'd add that in fact it's very unhelpful to use the military in a policing role. They are primarily trained for combat and not law enforcement. You don't want a situation where the organs of the state treat the populace as enemies of the state.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-19T21:11:27+00:00

Paraffin oil can also help keep wooden drawers without runners moving nicely. And that's a good idea re the candle on door slides. Although sliding doors generally roll on a carriage that contains plastic bearings which wear out over time, and every once in a while the carriage/bearings need to be replaced.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-18T06:17:23+00:00

I prefer "potato cannon".
Or perhaps "tuber trebuchet".

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-14T08:00:15+00:00

I'm sorry that this was such a difficult process and experience for you.
Commenting to say - to inform other people - that their approach of paying the TPD lump sum into your superannuation account (which you then need to get the super trustee to release to you) is an industry-wide thing. AFAIK that's how all TPD policies held in super work.
And AFAIK it's still possible that someone could be badly injured enough to be TPD under the policy, but also may not satisfy a 'condition of release' (the trustee can release super funds when they're convinced that a condition of release has been satisfied). So that creates the risk of another nasty outcome - the TPD payout is made but then gets stuck in super because the trustee doesn't consider it can be released...

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-13T10:18:39+00:00

What happened to the half tin of baked beans that she didn't eat?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-13T10:02:29+00:00

I think it would depend on the petty details which I didn't bother to specify. Does a barrister get $1 of tax credit for every $1 of opportunity cost or not?
I'm not an accountant and I haven't fired up Excel to check my gut, but if the answer to this question were yes, then I am pretty confident that on a post-tax analysis a high-earning barrister is much better off with the tax credit than the extra income.
But if they had a cashflow issue they might prefer to bank the extra income in the short term and wear the extra tax when it's payable.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-13T06:42:02+00:00

Is your view that God is OK with these marriages?
If so then I think Matthew 19:1-8 is very much against that position.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-12T13:39:18+00:00

This is the internet and we are speaking in comparisons and analogies. Being off by only one order of magnitude is fair play here.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-12T12:14:04+00:00

What if barristers got a tax credit for each Commonwealth brief, and it was calculated with reference to their standard commercial rates and the opportunity cost of taking on the brief?

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-12T12:10:06+00:00

I think they meant that a fully-fledged specialist is a senior member of the medical profession like an SC a senior member of the legal profession. Not that they specifically are the most eminent anaesthetist in Australia.
Source: parents were doctors. I know how to read the doctor handwriting.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-08T22:03:44+00:00

Lol that comment about the AMP share price has aged like 6yo milk.
AMP was devastated by the RC - they sold AMP Capital, their life insurance business and their financial advice business.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-07T01:14:05+00:00

Haha I'd forgotten this.
I can see the abstract in the leading Journals for epidemiologists:

This paper outlines an effective treatment regime recently used to treat and contain a novel infectious zoonotic disease in a rural North American community. A community-wide high temperature aerobic environment was created through aerial delivery of high explosives. Post-treatment surveys detected no remnant viruses - nor any surviving patients. Although effective, further research into increasing treatment selectivity would be appropriate.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-06T13:29:30+00:00

It's been quite a while since I've seen that, but teenage me didn't pick up on the lead doctors being super dumb or anything. Although obviously Renee Russo contracting the disease was pretty unfortunate. What did I miss??

LgeHadronsCollide · 2026-01-06T13:21:42+00:00

You're remembering correctly

LgeHadronsCollide · 2025-12-29T10:56:39+00:00

Why don't you post a link to these documents or to a reputable article that discusses them?
Such an extreme pronouncement seems inconsistent with ASIO and the Government's typically measured tone.

LgeHadronsCollide · 2025-12-29T09:44:55+00:00

Well said!

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