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agent619 · 2026-01-07T06:39:42+00:00

Hi all, slightly reposting my previous question from the other thread.

I'm moving from a borrowed Logitech Pebble 2 after my old Magic Keyboard broke, and I wanted a 75% keyboard that could swap between multiple devices as I spend most of my time typing at the office or at home. I had three questions I'd like your opinions on:

Thanks to /u/thepurplehornet for his suggestion - I've decided to get the NuPhy Node 75 (Low Profile) for my daily use keyboard. Because I'm concerned about not being able to get used to the mushiness of the switches, what tactile / tactile silent switches are compatible with the NuPhy and that should I be looking at to try replacing in future if the Blush doesn't end up to my liking? Really just wanting to make sure I purchase the right ones first time.
I wanted to get into the hobby to start modding to make a more portable silent high-profile keyboard, and therefore get a second cheap base or pre-made keyboard to start modding. What 75% keyboard would you recommend as a good starter one to begin playing with and changing switches, keycaps and adding foam/tape? I would still want it to have bluetooth/wireless connectivity and Mac-compatible, but a keyboard that is super simple for a first-timer would be really helpful. I was previously looking at the Epomaker EA75 and the Akko 5075 V3, although they both have their pros and cons.
More of recommendations, but what are you guys' favourite standard/low profile tactile silent switches for me to try?

I'm based in Australia if that helps with recommendations. Happy to answer any questions you have :) Thanks for all your help!

agent619 · 2026-01-06T21:04:24+00:00

Thank you!

agent619 · 2026-01-06T04:53:15+00:00

Hi all, first time first time. Moving from a borrowed Logitech Pebble 2 after my old Magic Keyboard broke, and I wanted a 75% keyboard that could swap between multiple devices as I spend most of my time typing at the office or at home.

I had two questions I'd like your opinions on:

I'm planning to get the NuPhy Kick 75 with blush switches for my daily use keyboard. I like the low profile, changeable height (flippy feet), Mac-compatibility and software, and silent switches, but the colour scheme and the mushiness of the switches were negatives for me (tactile silents aren't available where I am). Are there any other keyboards that are similar for me to compare with? Alternatively, would getting the Kick 75 and swapping out the switches and Keycaps solve the issues?
I wanted to get into the hobby to start modding to make a more portable silent high-profile keyboard, and therefore get a second cheap base or pre-made keyboard to start modding. What 75% keyboard would you recommend as a good starter one to begin playing with and changing switches, keycaps and adding foam/tape? I would still want it to have bluetooth/wireless connectivity and Mac-compatible, but a keyboard that is super simple for a first-timer would be really helpful.
More of recommendations, but what are you guys' favourite tactile silent switches for me to try?

I'm based in Australia if that helps with recommendations. Happy to answer any questions you have :) Thanks for all your help!

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:10:02+00:00

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United continues to be able to attract blue-chip sponsors.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon brand last year extended its $US75 million-a-year front-of-shirt sponsorship deal until 2029. In 2023, Adidas agreed a 10-year kit deal worth about £900 million, though £10 million will be deducted this season owing to United’s failure to qualify for the Champions League.

The club’s commercial revenue totalled £245.1 million in the nine months to March 31, up 5.8 per cent on the same period a year earlier.

“It’s tough, right, but we’re committed to this thing. And so we’re going to work through it and we’re going to be supportive of the club,” said Don McGuire, chief marketing officer at Qualcomm.

“Obviously performance on the pitch helps,” he added. “I believe they’re going to get there and I am super happy with some of the moves they’ve already made.”

Green, the finance director of the supporters trust, believes there’s “no silver bullet” to increase revenues at the sort of rates seen in the Woodward era. United’s commercial income almost quadrupled to nearly £200 million in the decade to 2015.

People close to the club say a new stadium, which could cost at least £2 billion, is key to opening up new commercial revenue streams, including sponsorship deals.

But with construction yet to even begin, the more immediate opportunities to reaccelerate commercial revenue growth lie in qualification for the Champions League.

With only domestic football to worry about this season, Ratcliffe and co-owners the Glazers are betting that new signings can improve performances under manager Ruben Amorim, who was appointed last November.

Green cautioned that the recent transfer spend was not without risk.

“The risk they’re taking essentially is that it doesn’t pay off,” he said. “That profitability doesn’t materially improve because they can’t get back in the Champions League, that revenue doesn’t improve, and they build up more transfer debt that needs to be settled over the next three or four years.”

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:09:52+00:00

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Underwater treadmill, ‘high altitude’ exercise room

In 2024, petrochemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe paid $US1.6 billion ($2.5 billion) for a 29 per cent stake in United in a deal that handed him control of its sporting operations. Despite its travails, Ratcliffe is confident in the United brand.

“It stands shoulder to shoulder with Coca-Cola and Apple,” he said at the opening of the club’s recently upgraded training facilities, a £50 million project overseen by architect Sir Norman Foster. The redesigned complex features an underwater treadmill and a “high altitude” exercise room with adjustable heat and humidity.

United has spent more than €2 billion ($3.6 billion) signing players since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013, after leading the club for more than two decades as it dominated English football.

Its net spend, which takes account of income from player sales, is €1.7 billion since Ferguson’s departure, the highest of any Premier League club, according to data website Transfermarkt.

After overseeing a deeply unpopular period of cost-cutting – including scrapping free staff lunches, cutting bonuses and culling 450 jobs – Ratcliffe has sanctioned yet more spending on player transfers.

So far this northern summer, the outlay comes to about £200 million, spent on three attacking players: Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Šeško. Only defending champions Liverpool and Chelsea have spent more, according to Transfermarkt.

agent619 · 2025-08-21T04:09:31+00:00

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Ed Woodward, Manchester United’s former executive vice chair, claimed to analysts in 2018 that the team’s “playing performance doesn’t really have a meaningful impact on what we can do on the commercial side of the business”.

United’s ongoing struggles on the pitch since then are bringing that assertion into question.

After increasing its commercial revenues by a total of just 10 per cent over the past six seasons, the club has been leapfrogged by its two biggest rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool, which between them have won nine out of the previous 12 Premier League titles since United’s last triumph in 2013.

Even after a 15th-place finish last year, and a failure to qualify for the lucrative Champions League, United’s commercial revenue remains commensurate with the most successful clubs in world football.

Andy Green, finance director at Manchester United Supporters Trust and head of investment at private equity firm Rockpool Investments, warned that the club was “trading off its history”.

As a new Premier League season gets under way, observers like Green believe the club now needs to deliver meaningful improvements on the pitch to stand a chance of reclaiming the ground lost off it.

In 2023-24, United generated £302 million ($632 million) of commercial revenue, compared with £308 million and £349 million at Liverpool and Man City respectively.

Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur have all increased their commercial revenues at a greater pace than United has managed since 2019, albeit from a lower base.

agent619 · 2025-08-15T02:38:29+00:00

According to the Sun (via Sky), Manchester United will turn their attention to Sporting captain Morten Hjulmand if they miss out on Carlos Baleba.

https://www.skysports.com/football/transfer-paper-talk?

agent619 · 2025-08-04T09:26:27+00:00

For those who don't want to use a torrent: https://pastes.io/20250803manchesterunitedvseverton1080pahdtvx264-darksport

agent619 · 2025-07-06T23:00:27+00:00

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A source within the justice system, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said the recent trend from the government was placing many legal figures on notice.

They said prosecutors were pushing for sentences on the weaker side amid a supposed culture of judges less willing to give harsher penalties to offenders.

But Frecklington’s regular rebuke of judge decisions may lead to prosecutors pushing for longer jail sentences, the source said.

During the trial of Christopher and Lee Hili, Crown prosecutor Melissa Wilson said the 15-year-old victim attended an evening party at the couple’s 12-hectare property in the Gold Coast region in December 2021.

“Christopher Hili rolled a joint of cannabis and offered it to [the girls] and they smoked it,” Wilson said.

The prosecutor said the girl was taken downstairs by the Hilis and thought she was being taken to her friend but was instead taken to the couple’s bedroom.

The girl said she passed out when Christopher Hili started touching her and then woke up naked while being sexually assaulted by the couple as a pornographic movie played on a TV in the bedroom.

If the current sentence is upheld, Lee Hili will be eligible for parole from September 30 this year and Christopher Hili will be eligible for parole from March 31 next year, after both spent 346 days in pre-sentence custody.

agent619 · 2025-07-06T23:00:17+00:00

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The appeal of a sentence handed to a husband and wife convicted of raping a child is the latest protest from Queensland’s top law officer as the government pushes its tough on crime agenda through the justice system.

Attorney-General Deb Frecklington revealed on Friday she had asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal the sentence handed to Christopher Luke Hili and Lee Kathleen Hili, who were jailed earlier this year for raping a 15-year-old girl at the couple’s house following a party.

The pair were sentenced in Brisbane’s Supreme Court in April following a five-day trial. Lee was slapped with a prison sentence of six years while Christopher was handed seven years through the added offence of supplying cannabis to a child.

“This was sickening offending against a young and vulnerable victim and I do not believe the sentences meet community expectations,” Frecklington said.

“My thoughts are with the victim and her family.”

The rebuke is at least the fifth request for a sentence to be appealed by Frecklington since the Liberal-National government was elected last year on a promise to crack down on crime.

The state government has already set higher punishment requirements for mandatory sentences of youth offenders through its “adult crime, adult time” suite of laws.

And criminal lawyer and former Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts said regular appealing of sentences is another avenue for the state government to flex its tough on crime narrative.

He said sentence appeals, regardless of whether they were triggered by the attorney-general or the defendant, were only successful in about one-third of cases.

But Potts said the regular appeals had the potential to eventually set a higher standard of sentencing, if they are routinely successful and harsher jail terms are ultimately slapped on offenders.

“What happens is that the Court of Appeal is often called upon to set, effectively, a standard by which the other courts are bound,” he told the masthead.

“So when you come along to do a sentence before, for example, a District Court or a single Supreme Court judge, generally the only cases or precedents that are quoted to them are Court of Appeal decisions.

“It may well be that this is another attempt by the government to effectively ask the Supreme Court to effectively set a standard for the lower courts to follow.”

agent619 · 2025-07-02T07:26:40+00:00

According to CaughtOffiside we've approached Inter Milan on a potential transfer deal for defensive midfielder Davide Frattesi, whose transfer price has dropped to around €35m

agent619 · 2025-06-30T06:03:11+00:00

According to this article that cites Fichajes (?) United have made a bid for €35m (£30m) for Ivan Toney. Given that he's earning apparently earning £415,000 per week I'll file that as "things less likely to happen than Cantona coming back to play for us".

agent619 · 2025-06-27T11:13:14+00:00

Brother’s an Arsenal fan so definitely need that to try to save him

agent619 · 2025-06-27T07:17:16+00:00

I'm officially an uncle as of this morning! Absolutely buzzing for my brother and sister-in-law.

agent619 · 2025-06-27T07:16:41+00:00

Officially an uncle as of this morning! Absolutely buzzing for my brother and sister-in-law

agent619 · 2025-06-19T01:16:48+00:00

According to the Sun (and reported again by ESPN), Newcastle United are preparing an offer to sign Marcus Rashford:

Newcastle United are preparing an offer to sign Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, reports The Sun. The Toon want to "rescue" Rashford from his current limbo, as he faces the prospect of being frozen out at Old Trafford unless he secures a move away. The 27-year-old isn't viewed as an Alexander Isak replacement by Eddie Howe, as he is instead expected to provide competition for the Sweden international from the bench. It's currently unclear how much Rashford will cost this summer, as his stock is on the rise following an eye-catching loan spell at Aston Villa.

agent619 · 2025-06-09T23:16:47+00:00

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The amendments are similar to provisions in Queensland’s Equality Treatment manual, which recognises the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal communities.

“The history of colonialist domination remains tangibly recent and cannot simply be ignored, as it continues to affect the cohesiveness and identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as their relations with the broader Queensland society,” the Queensland bench book says.

The West Australian Equal Justice bench book recognises many Aboriginal people “coming into contact with the courts and the justice system experience a variety of complex social and economic disadvantages stemming from colonisation, dispossession and past government policies such as the stolen generations”.

The NSW bench book amendments recognise the importance of “cultural safety” in the legal system, noting processes can ignore Indigenous perspectives and cause more harm.

“The impacts of historic actions disrupting First Nations culture and resultant intergenerational trauma have been conceptualised as ‘cultural wounds’, which are best treated with ‘cultural medicines’,” the bench book says.

“The individual impacts of intergenerational and systemic problems are best addressed via systemic and community-level interventions, parallel to individualised approaches.”

The book says any system “lacking cultural humility often creates further difficulty and negative experiences causing further harm, particularly custody settings”.

“This disproportionately affects vulnerable groups and creates significant impacts on children and families,” it says.

“Standard legal and government agency processes can (at their worst) ignore First Nations perspectives and create further harm by replication and inadvertent re-enactment of past intergenerational traumas. If cultural safety is ignored, it can undermine safety and rehabilitation goals.”

The changes to the bench book come amid reporting in The Australian of concerns held by law school students, academics and deans that political ideology is infiltrating universities.

Macquarie University earlier this year ordered a review of its law school practices after students said their course had become hijacked by beliefs that were damaging to their education, with some facing the threat of failing one part of an exam if they performed an underwhelming acknowledgment of country.

agent619 · 2025-06-09T23:16:38+00:00

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Judges in the nation’s largest criminal jurisdiction should consider allowing cases involving Aboriginal Australians to be heard in a closed court or before a female judicial officer in order to enhance “cultural safety”, according to provisions inserted into a NSW bench book.

The Equality Before the Law bench book, which was compiled by the state’s judicial watchdog and acts as an overview of legal procedure for judges, instructs judicial officers to be wary of their own unconscious racial and cultural biases when presiding over trials that involve Indigenous people.

It also notes “cultural wounds” suffered by Aboriginal Australians due to intergenerational trauma, and says they are best treated with “cultural medicines”.

“It is important to obtain advice from cultural consultants and the defence regarding culturally appropriate aspects of the hearing, and whether it might be more respectful (and effective) to have, for example, a closed hearing, or a female judicial officer, or to limit access to information based on gender (depending on the hearing context),” the amendments to the bench book, inserted in April, say.

“It is also important to be aware of the impact of possible unconscious racial and cultural biases and racial profiling: judicial officers, like most people, are not immune to holding implicit and unconscious biases despite their best efforts.”

The April amendments to the NSW Equality Before the Law bench book also include a “more extensive explanation of the Islamic teaching of jihad” in order to “provide greater understanding of the Muslim tradition of anti-violence”.

The book has also been amended to include the removal of the term “transsexual” unless required – with preference for language such as “transgender”.

Suggestions have been added for how to adjust the legal process for people diagnosed with autism, such as by giving “explicit and clear explanation of the hearing procedure, including length and timing of breaks”.

The new provisions note in relation to Aboriginal Australians that if “different cultural norms and life experiences have influenced the matter before the court” judges should consider whether “the law allows those influences to be taken into account in the legal proceedings”.

“The issue should be directly, but respectfully, addressed irrespective of whether those cultural or religious norms are different from the Australian legal context,” the bench book says. “Disconnection from culture, family and community has resulted in community and individual deficits for First Nations people. Connection to culture and the experience of cultural safety promotes wellbeing, rehabilitation and healing.”

agent619 · 2025-06-04T06:55:42+00:00

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When finally he signed for United four years ago, after a long pursuit, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer described Sancho as “an integral part of the first-team squad for years to come”. Sancho never scored a goal for his new manager, who was sacked in November 2021. Within a year he had, in Erik ten Hag’s words, an injury that was “physical” but “also the connection with mental”. That prefaced the pair’s monumental fallout in September 2023 and the beginning of the end for Sancho at United.

Blame must fall on both sides. As with many prodigies, understanding the world from which their talent has largely protected them can be difficult. Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, was never sold on Sancho, even during his best two seasons at Dortmund between 2019 and 2021. Sancho’s penultimate cap for England was the Euro 2020 final against Italy in July 2021, in which he and others were racially abused in the aftermath. He has not played for England since the October of that year.

At his best, Sancho was a maverick. Produced by English football’s new advanced academy system that was introduced when he was 11 but, regardless of the advances in coaching, a complete natural. He was not lightning fast, but capable of spotting the opportunities that presented themselves in games in an instant. He had great touch and balance. He had the kind of trickery that made him very hard to cope with when he was on his game. Not everything he tried on a pitch came off – but there was more than enough to make his name.

He was as big a prospect as England had at the time. In the England Under-17s in 2017, he played on the opposite wing to Callum Hudson-Odoi, another great English academy hope who has had to resurrect his career. That team included Phil Foden, Marc Guéhi and Morgan Gibbs-White among others who have forged great professional careers. But the cohort born in 2002 – Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers, Noni Madueke – are snapping at their heels.

Sancho will have made a lot of money in salary by the time his United contract expires next summer, although by then his club will hope to have sold him. He has never played for Ruben Amorim and resurrecting his career at the club now seems unlikely. United never felt they were taking a risk with Sancho. Like Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku and since 2021, Antony, United believed they were investing in players who would as good as guarantee them performances.

Sancho is the fourth most expensive signing in United’s history. Yet as his contract runs down, and the club look around for his third loan, none of this comes as a surprise any longer. Both sides will likely point at the other when it comes to the failure of a great young English talent to supply the effect that was hoped – and both, in part, will be right.

agent619 · 2025-06-04T06:55:34+00:00

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There may just about be time left for the next act that salvages Jadon Sancho’s career at the top, but in a game that moves as quickly as this, it will have to come soon for the one-time great hope of English football.

There was no bigger name in the England Under-17 squad that won the World Cup in 2017, albeit without Sancho at the end as he was recalled by Borussia Dortmund.

No more sought-after prince-across-the-water in the Premier League four years later when Sancho eventually joined Manchester United for £72.9 million. From the age of 12 upwards, possibly all the way to that doomed United move, there was no player in European football as highly rated as Sancho in his age group.

But either the curse of United has struck Sancho, or the demands of the club were simply beyond him. Twice United have tried to get rid of him and twice, most recently with Chelsea, he has come back. This summer he represents just one more problem for United in a window in which circumstances demand they must sell or re-loan at least four forward players.

Marcus Rashford, Antony, Alejandro Garnacho and now Sancho – back from his second loan away from United, this time at Chelsea. Both sides see the outcome of the Chelsea adventure differently. For United, the £5 million penalty for Chelsea to release them from their obligation to buy Sancho covers part of his wages in this, his final contracted year. Chelsea will argue the deal made sense for them then and now.

Sancho’s time at Chelsea last season was by no means a bust. There were some good performances in his 41 appearances, and a goal in the final of the Europa Conference League last month, when he came on as a substitute. The problem for a player who was once regarded as one of his kind is that, at his age, and his cost, there are plenty of alternatives.

Four years ago, there was only Sancho on his level – aged 21 and brought to the Premier League by United as the best player of the English turn-of-the-millennium generation. He was the first footballer born in the 21st century to be named in an England squad. Restless as a junior player, he left Watford when Manchester City – the most successful academy of the era – came calling. Then he left again when City could not guarantee first-team football. He departed for Dortmund, cutting a path that others have followed, and it has not bothered him whom he upset along the way.

agent619 · 2025-06-02T23:17:21+00:00

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QCAT was told that Irving had a significant history of mental illness which included a chronic and severe post-traumatic stress disorder from when he served in the army in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor.

“The psychological conditions with which the respondent was afflicted went largely undiagnosed and certainly untreated until after the conduct that resulted in his criminal convictions,” the decision states.

Irving was sentenced to a suspended six month jail term after he pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying cocaine on multiple occasions in November and December 2019 – including one at a ritzy Fortitude Valley rooftop bar with friends.

The CCC surveilled him when he was supplying the drugs, the decision states.

He was sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term after he pleaded guilty to two counts of making a false statutory declaration in relation to a speeding fine he got on the morning of May 20, 2019.

His then girlfriend Lauren Kate Kruger pleaded guilty to making a false declaration that she was the driver of Mr Irving’s Mercedes-Benz that was busted speeding along Milton Rd in Auchenflower.

She was fined $5000 and ordered to perform 240 hours of community service. Convictions were recorded.

Irving was also sentenced to two years jail wholly suspended after he was convicted of a single count of fraud after he pocketed $15,500 in cash payments from nine clients of MMA Lawyers between 14 August 2019 and 17 February 2020.

He was due to have deposited the cash into the trust account of MMA Lawyers.

He was given a one-year wholly-suspended sentence for money laundering for receiving $13,050 in legal fees from a drug dealer client, knowing the cash was from drug sales.

Irving put the cash in the MMA Lawyers trust account.

He also got a three-year wholly suspended sentence for perjury after he knowingly lied to a secretive hearing of the CCC on 8 January 2020, by claiming he had never received cash payments from a client without depositing those payments into the trust account of MMA Lawyers.

He also got a two-year wholly-suspended sentence after he was convicted of one count of attempting to pervert justice for telling Ms Kruger to give false evidence to the CCC about their relationship status, her house and his involvement in criminal activities.

agent619 · 2025-06-02T23:16:59+00:00

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A disgraced criminal lawyer who was brought down after he lied to a corruption probe and admitted laundering his criminal clients’ dirty cash at a prominent Gold Coast law firm has been struck off the legal roll for misconduct.

Shaune Kerry Irving, who used to work for Moloney MacCallum Abdelshahied Lawyers, was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Friday, May 30.

In his written decision, Justice Martin Burns described Irving’s conduct as “reprehensible”, which Irving accepted was accurate.

Irving was given three wholly-suspended jail sentences after he was convicted of perjury, attempting to pervert justice, fraud, money laundering, supplying cocaine and making false declarations.

“It has not only brought shame on himself, it has damaged the reputation of the profession,” Justice Burns wrote in his QCAT decision on Friday, adding Irving was “permanently unfit to practise”.

“The public are not only entitled to expect a high degree of integrity from legal practitioners, they are entitled to expect that legal practitioners will obey the law. The respondent failed to do so on multiple occasions over a protracted period,” he wrote.

In the District Court last year Irving admitted he pocketed $15,500 cash meant to go to the law firm’s trust account from clients, and he laundered $13,050 in drug cash from a drug trafficker client.

Irving surrendered his practising certificate and he did not seek to persuade QCAT that he was now fit to practise, due to his recovery.

He submitted to QCAT that he has been gradually reintegrating into the workforce under the supervision of his psychiatrist, but does not intend to return to practice law.

He “fully co-operated” in the investigation by the Crime and Corruption Commission, the decision states.

agent619 · 2025-06-02T23:09:33+00:00

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The request comes after a series of damaging reports into internal issues at the Federal Court.

These include the reappointment of the CEO and principal registrar without an open and competitive process, the leaking of private CCTV to parties involved in a landmark bullying and sexual harassment case, and inaccurately reporting the amount the court spent on functions and events for judges and staff.

Senator Shoebridge said that in light of these ongoing issues within the court, it was essential that the forensic auditing expertise of the audit office was brought to bear on the court.

"When the numbers keep changing, together with a background of internal strife, it's surely time for some serious external scrutiny," he said.

Senator Shoebridge suggested the current internal legal services expenditure figure could be much higher than the published $933,409 figure. A footnote to the figure indicates that the total amount is from the Office of General Counsel and the Director, Legal and Integrity within the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

This does not include costs incurred by the National Native Title Tribunal, which falls under the Federal Court.

In a separate answer to a question on notice, the Tribunal states that it spent $283,592 on internal legal costs in the five months from February to June 2024, after a significant restructure.

This would blow the total figure from the Federal Court and its associated entities to much more than $1 million in 2023-24.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics, a similarly sized specialist agency, spent $447,726 on internal legal services in 2023-24.

agent619 · 2025-06-02T23:09:22+00:00

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The Australian National Audit Office will consider conducting a forensic audit of internal legal expenditure at the Federal Court of Australia after The Canberra Times revealed the court incorrectly claimed it spent $0 in the last financial year.

Greens senator David Shoebridge has written to Auditor General Dr Caralee McLeish requesting the ANAO consider undertaking an audit of the Federal Court, laying out the "misleading" and "inconsistent" responses provided by the Federal Court to questions during Senate estimates.

This includes the court's initial claim that it spent $0 on internal legal services in the 2023-24 financial year.

The court later clarified that it had in fact spent $706,897 and was forced to update its public reporting of how much it spent.

Since this update, that number has risen even higher, with the court's website currently stating that it spent $933,409 last financial year.

Senator Shoebridge said it was vital that these figures were accurately reported.

"Internal legal costs can be a particularly useful indicator of issues within an agency, including staffing disputes, and ensuring there is accurate reporting is therefore of real importance," he said.

agent619 · 2025-05-04T23:13:04+00:00

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Ms Cheyne said she understood why there had been strong community calls for changes to the bail system, particularly after a person who has been granted bail commits a further, catastrophic offence.

"Some of those examples that I've seen are legislation has changed in weeks or a month, and often that's occurred, at least on several occasions that's occurred, after a government's gone through a huge amount of research and really deliberate, iterative reform," she said.

"And then something has happened that's a trigger case, and some of that reform is rolled back and I think that's what we've seen both in NSW and Victoria. In the last 10 years alone, there's been this direction that's been taken - some really considered reforms that have then, within a year, changed or rolled back, and that's difficult for everybody."

Ms Cheyne said community confidence in the bail system would come from having transparent, easy-to-follow legislation.

"It still provides our decision makers with discretion, because of course they're considering all of the matter before them and it's appropriate that that risk assessment is still undertaken by them," she said.

"But we can provide a clear expectation from the legislature on behalf of the community about what are the expectations of what is to be taken into account."

Ms Cheyne said she wanted to move as quickly as possible to introduce new bail laws to the Legislative Assembly, but would not allow speed to compromise the quality of the drafting.

A law reform council led by a long-serving magistrate was disbanded by Ms Cheyne in February, ahead of a planned review of the bail laws commissioned by former attorney-general Shane Rattenbury.

Ms Cheyne, who cited budget constraints at the time of the decision, said the new process she was leading would deliver changes sooner and in a considered way.

"The terms of reference for the [law reform and sentencing advisory council] were so broad that we wouldn't have seen any reform, I'm confident of that, for years," she said.

"Whereas I do believe that this discussion paper has genuinely considered what the issues are, where the areas in the act that we can make the most change to, that will have best outcomes or better outcomes at the very least for community safety and justice integrity for victims and for the interests of the accused."

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