Or that tyres need air

And about 40% of Australian homes apparently have solar installed already but it’s a “lucky for some” sneer? I don’t think I’ll be taking EV advice from someone who thinks working out how to use a charger or install an app is too hard.

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the International Court of Justice 🎉: a cornerstone of the international legal order.

As proud host country, the Netherlands remains committed to peaceful dispute settlement and the rule of law. #ICJat80

“No war crimes prosecutions” is a tad jarring to me given that there were dozens and dozens of Australian trials for the war crime of murder in 1945-51. We have a rich history of precedent there, albeit not about bailing them.

I offered to revise and update the finding aid to the Papers of Sir William Flood Webb KBE Kt for the Australian War Memorial and it is now 'live'! This is the sole place where you can see the hundreds of pages draft opinion that he never submitted to the IMTFE in 1948 www.awm.gov.au/collection/a...

And we need Gen AI rules for judges too, not just bland PR statements about how a court or tribunal goes about selecting and purchasing AI systems. See my article last year: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...

I’m marking intensively for two weeks but I’ll go looking for you.

If you want a picture of it at ECU I’m sure it can be arranged 😀

Most of us in law have opted out of the auto approved system as we actually apply the extension rules. We are the law school after all. The problem is principally the self certs which you basically can’t refute and refuse.

And moderate between students and markers. While wrangling about 40-50% of assessments being submitted late principally due to extensions with no evidence required. The flu is running rife through the law students these last few days. Allegedly.

And in that 20 or so mins you have to download the assessment, check it was on time or find out how late it was and determine the penalty, read it, mark it, mark up a rubric, write more and more feedback as demanded, enter the mark in Grade Centre, and upload feedback.

And disregarding the value in anything that cannot be simply quantified.

What?!? The joys that await you some day!

I’m fond of the Portrait Gallery cafe when I’m at the NAA Canberra. It’s not a long walk. Plenty of gardens, statues, buildings and exercising public servants to watch as you amble. Also the shop at the gallery is good for a brief diversion, time permitting. The one to avoid is Poppy’s.

Hallucinations—the other “H” index 🤦‍♂️

Images must be submitted as original photographs only. Kodak preferred.

Headline reads Could Cyclone Narelle come as far south as Perth? and the current answer to that appears to be yes.

Owing apologies all over the bloody country at this rate!

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You aren’t pointing out yet that you’re the ONLY scholar on the planet who can lay claim to that title? 😀

It doesn’t overwrite their original submissions, no. I’ll send you some screenshots if you want.

This is still how I mark.

Here is a PhD position in arts law at UNSW investigating AI, copyright and the private regulation of creativity. You'll work with the fantastic @kathybowrey.bsky.social and Louise Buckingham from the Arts Law Centre of Australia, wider team myself and Marie Hadley.

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Oh boy do I have thoughts. Buckle up buckaroos, we're going to take some broadsides at legal academia.

While he lost his application for review overall, there's no consequences for use of information flawed by Gen AI for litigants in person like this. Exactly how it might be done is so difficult to contemplate, but it needs to be done.

Also, can judges please dig further? WHICH Gen AI tool?

Is there some normal practice that the clerk does sign orders? I’m assuming, without really understanding, that he’s not across “how things are done” procedurally in that court.

Now let’s hope we see an Australian court follow suit. And also refer the lawyers for misconduct investigation leading to being struck off. Someone(s) need to be struck off for the lesson to sink in.

Former High Court chief justice Anthony Mason dies, aged 100 Mason served as chief justice from 1987 to 1995, an era defined by a series of watershed decisions including the Mabo Indigenous land rights ruling.

Vale Mason CJ. He was such a towering figure on the High Court when I was a law student. Critiqued for activism but really he and his fellow judges were just ahead of the community in recognising the inevitability of necessary change. www.smh.com.au/national/for...

Tropical Cyclone Narelle could be ‘biggest system in living memory’ when it crosses Queensland coast, authorities warn Massive storm expected to intensify to category 5 cyclone offshore before making landfall in far north Queensland on Friday

Ongoing apologies for this one it seems

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Track Cyclone Narelle live as it approaches Queensland coast See the latest forecast and wind speeds as the system approaches Far North Queensland.

Apologies to Queenslanders in advance www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Was it at least worth the evaporation of your day?