Criminal lawyer: barrister at the Victorian Bar; tweeter; blogger; tech-head. Interested in technology in the law and crime. @kylemcdonald@techhub.social
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This is a fine piece of writing, an absolute scorcher from Malcolm Knox, a visceral denunciation of the crime that was Robodebt. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
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As of Friday 26 August 2022, criminal barristers will be walking out of court. Indefinitely.
And we won’t be going back until this government fixes the justice system that it has broken.
Your move, @DominicRaab.
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@markdreyfusQCMP as soon as you are sworn in as our Attorney General can you please intervene to instruct the CDPP to drop the outrageous prosecution of Timor L’Este lawyer @BernardCollaery. We need to restore integrity (no dirty tricks) in our security agencies. No cover-ups.
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Really worried about the direction things are moving in globally. BA.2 and BA.1.1. seem to be sweeping to dominance in different regions rapidly. Pandemic growth has also resumed in many places including England, & more recently Gauteng. A thread looking at the current evidence.
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NDIS is an investment in people with disabilities
We have to prioritise people with disability coming out of COVID
Free RAT tests, employment opportunities
Decrease disability Unemployment rate
Political representation
@DylanAlcott calling it out #AustralianOfTheYear 🤙🤙🤙
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Delighted to have contributed to this report - Parliamentary report highlights major flaws in Australia’s withdrawal from Afghanistan @azadahrm @karinfrode @hasina_safi @JacquiTrue sbs.com.au/news/parliamentar…
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If you’ve been frustrated by the #Djokovic debacle, please know that’s what lawyers and families dealing with the Department of Home Affairs feel everyday. I hope this has brought home some sense of empathy for people in indefinite detention. I hope we’re more enlightened.
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If you spend a lot of time copying text from PDFs into Word like me, I hope this tip might be useful! If the PDF ends up broken up over lots of lines, there's no need to fix it manually. Just go to find and replace, type ^p into find, and one space into replace. Pics below :)
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The conduct of @AusBorderForce must always be scrutinised. Border Force investigating other Australian Open players after Djokovic ban theage.com.au/politics/feder…
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A dystopian nightmare in which you can’t get tested, you can’t get help, you can’t prove you’re sick so you don’t get paid, GPs can’t see you, hospitals are overwhelmed, & there is literally nowhere for you to turn.
Morrison to Kafka: Hold my beer.
Kyle McDonald retweeted
Novax Djokovic all over the news. Biloela family still languishing in limbo. The fkg privilege.
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A key tactic of disinformationists is to spread fatalism.
"It's too late / Everyone will get Omicron / We might as well do nothing"
This is completely false. Every decision we make has an impact.
At any point, the faster we can limit transmission, the more lives we will save.
Kyle McDonald retweeted
It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger."
Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works:
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“We’re facing the prospect of ever tougher laws, police raids, arrests, and even jailings – and they’re not targeting war criminals, but the news journalists.”
WHO'S NEXT? The rising threat to media freedom
declassifiedaus.org/2021/12/… via @DeclassifiedAUS
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Yesterday, a federal judge in Michigan did something extraordinary & important.
Yes, she penalized Trump's election attorneys for their conduct filing a lawsuit to have Michigan's 2020 election results thrown out.
But she did something bigger:
Took the suit seriously.
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Kyle McDonald retweeted
This is very good work by @matt_barrie. “The Doherty modeling appears to be nothing more than manufactured scientific opinion to achieve a political outcome by working the numbers backwards.” And he backs that up in detail.
medium.com/@matt_11659/austr…
