Katgallow
This blog is in hiatus from May, 2020. View the back catalogue below, or head to Curl where I blogged from 2011 until August 2015. Curl is also catalogued in the National Library of Australia Pandora Archive.
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Semantics or substance? Plebiscite/survey
Since my last post, I’ve developed a particular sensitivity to the language surrounding Australia’s marriage equality process. Billed by the government as a plebiscite using…
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Plebiscite not within ABS role
The Australian government has, notoriously, decided to run what it calls a plebiscite on the question of marriage equality in Australia. It will put up…
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Legal citations 2.0
Post by Kate Galloway and Melissa Castan. Cite as: Kate Galloway and Melissa Castan, ‘Legal Citations 2.0’ Katgallow (21 June 2017) https://kategalloway.net/2017/06/21/legal-citations-2-0/ The leading work…
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The legal profession’s ‘black swan’ problem
A black swan is an event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and is extremely difficult to predict. The…
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Are we seeing the devolution of university education?
Yesterday the Australian Minister for Education, Simon Birmingham, announced cuts to higher education funding and increases in student fees. In addition, the income threshold for…
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The trouble with the McGlade amendments to the Native Title Act
In June 2015, the Australian Law Reform Commission handed down its final report into the Native Title Act. Amongst its recommendations was the amendment of…
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