16 February 2007
Welcome to the Observation Deck!The Observation Deck is a privately owned and operated website designed to host high quality weblogs for selected individuals.
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Crime Victims Advocate
Outrageous Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Curtain
Posted 4 days ago
The judge in this case is one of the many judges who have been appointed by our Attorney General Rob Hulls who in his past had strong civil liberty leanings. And when you have someone like Rob Hulls giving the nod to these people for the judiciary then you expect sentences to be out of kilter [...] [more]The Village of the Damned
Posted 11 days ago
This Scumbag should never be released from the Village of the Damned.. A pagan witch who turned two fifteen year old girls into sex slaves has won the right to challenge an order that keeps him locked in the grounds of Ararat Prison. This is a place where extremely serous sex offenders are kept. The likes [...] [more]Posted 3 months ago
Howdy, My scales are on the blink so I can’t tell you about my fitness process. but I am going to buy a new set and a good tape measure for my measurements. So I will try and update you tomorrow. Anyway i just wanted to shout out to Tara. I have been in [...] [more]I am like the worst blogger!
Posted 3 months ago
Howdy Kids, I am so sorry, I am a bad blogger. But you know what it’s hard to find the time. Sounds insane. Mainly because I spend hours and hours wasting time, but I always forget to wast time on here… But I have BIG News… So I thought I would share it. So if [...] [more]Faris QC: High Court Blog
MW v Director-General, Department of Community Services 2008
Posted 3 months ago
MW v Director-General, Department of Community Services [2008] HCA 12 (28 March 2008) Family Court of Australia - Jurisdiction under s 111B of Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) (”Family Law Act”) and reg 16 of Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986 (Cth) (”Regulations”) to make a return order - Whether Family Court was [...] [more]Betfair Pty Limited v Western Australia 2008
Posted 3 months ago
Betfair Pty Limited v Western Australia [2008] HCA 11 (27 March 2008) Constitutional law (Cth) - Freedom of interstate trade, commerce and intercourse - Betting and Racing Legislation Amendment Act 2006 (WA) inserted ss 24(1aa) and 27D(1) into Betting Control Act 1954 (WA) (”WA Act”) - Section 24(1aa) of WA Act provides that a [...] [more]City Watch
Children Neglected.
Posted 9 days ago
The shocking cases of Child neglect in Adelaide has come to light this week. It is beyond belief that the neighbours have not reported these low life parents. Or are the DHS covering their backsides. Also where were the Local Council in this disgraceful mess. The photos of the outside of the house tell the [...] [more]2Am Lockout
Posted 4 weeks ago
Who is running this City of Melbourne. Certainly not the Police or the Politicians. A trial run is on the way in Melbourne to Lock out drunks after 2Am. in the Nightclubs. This is working in other Cities why not Melbourne. The Night Club owners are running Melbourne not for peoples pleasure but for the almighty dollar. [...] [more]Moral Dilemma
Prosecution at all costs - persecution
Posted 11 days ago
It is incredible that in a highly literate society such as Australia that many people are still defeated by the presumption of innocence and the principle that people should not be punished more than once for the one act. These are but two of the several dispiriting revelations to emerge from the fallout from the [...] [more]Injustice - blame the system, not lawyers
Posted 11 days ago
The biggest impediment to a fair and efficient legal system is not $14,000 per day barristers but an Attorney-General who invokes extreme examples to illustrate supposed institutional deficiencies and who refuses to take ownership for his mistakes. Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls has proudly declared that Victoria needs a new system for resolving civil and commercial [...] [more]Faris QC: VSC 2007 - 2008
Alma Hill Constructions Pty Ltd v Onal 2007
Posted 15 months ago
Alma Hill Constructions Pty Ltd v Onal [2007] VSC 86 (30 March 2007) APPEAL from Magistrates’ Court – Debt for motor vehicle repairs factored to appellant – Equity – Claim by appellant as assignee in equity – Whether prior notice to debtor necessary – Whether assignee may sue without joinder of assignor – Whether joinder of [...] [more]Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Guastalegname 2007
Posted 15 months ago
Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Guastalegname [2007] VSC 81 (27 March 2007) TAXATION – Appeal from Magistrates’ Court - Penalty under s 222AOC of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) –Whether compliance with obligation to “give” a notice under s 222AOE of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) - Whether open to Magistrate to [...] [more]Legless in perpetuum
New beginnings
Posted 3 months ago
Hey y’all, There have been some massive upheavals and changes in my life recently, and I have simply not had the energy to blog for reasons too many to mention. However, this does not mean I want to stop blogging. Hence I have decided it’s time for a new start so expect a new name and [...] [more]It’s been… rough. But I’m back.
Posted 6 months ago
Dear all, I don’t know where to start in apologising for not updating in so long, but suffice it to say I feel awful about it. But here I am now trying to make amends and trying to get this blog here kickstarted again. Basically, I had some complications in hospital and things got, well, pretty [...] [more]Posted 13 days ago
We left the Olgas and headed for Uluru where you could see from the distance and it is huge. There was a lovely culture centre there where the three tribes show their art work and you can learn all about them but you cannot take photos, and the gifts a very expensive so we drove [...] [more]HAVE LEFT W.A.
Posted 13 days ago
Well we finally left W.A. and headed for Alice. It was not easy saying good bye to our work mates and the family we had made in the caravan park. We went up to greenough for the weekend and Ron came with us and Mike and Lee came down from Kalbarri and we spent 3 [...] [more]Would you vote for this person?
Federal Labor; Rudd’s union mate is awake up to him.
Posted 31 hours ago
The Age; Embattled union chief slams Rudd, Brumby; By David Rood, July 4, 2008 PRIME MINISTER Kevin Rudd has dudded the voters who delivered him power, and is in danger of being thrown out of office at the next election, outspoken union leader Dean Mighell says. Renewing hostilities with Mr Rudd, the Electrical Trades Union leader [...] [more]FederaL Labor: First our hospital now our nursing home
Posted 31 hours ago
The Age; By Nick Miller July 2, 2008 TWENTY-SEVEN nursing home residents face being kicked out of their Phillip Island home after the sudden collapse of talks intended to save the Warley Hospital’s aged-care arm. When the hospital controversially closed its doors in January, its board was already negotiating with Mercy Health and Aged Care to [...] [more]Posted 3 days ago
Lily-livered British plods have gone all contrite over using a cute pup to promote their new help-line. The mutt’s image upset whining members of Scotland’s muslim community. Why would they be concerned about the police anyway? Much of the population refers to them as pigs. Almost everyone else just laughs at them for being politically correct fools. Remember when [...] [more]You better f****** believe it!
Posted 4 days ago
Laughed fit to bust when I read this at Bolta’s blog: Presently doing the rounds,with apologies to AB Paterson: For years I brown-nosed bastards from the Centre to the Right, I fiddled with the numbers and I suck-holed day and night. And when they wouldn’t have me, waited for the next election, And then I bitched so loudly I [...] [more]Faris QC Blog
Obama an Apostate Muslim?
Posted 5 weeks ago
Two recent op-eds deal with this issue. New York Times Christian Science Monitor Read them! [more]Costs out of control
Posted 6 weeks ago
Guess who said this? “recognising that the cost of everything is still going through the roof” [SMH today] Kevin Rudd. That’s the best he can do? People voted for Rudd because they wanted a change. Welcome to the change. [more]It's A Matter Of Opinion
Concentration of Power = Loss of Freedom
Posted 47 hours ago
Something that politicians all seem to like is to be able to concentrate power in their hands. Our current defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon is the latest to demand the end of state governments. He uses the old claim that state governments cost too much and that we would all be better off if only we [...] [more]Texas doesn’t need The Vault
Posted 47 hours ago
Texas doesn't need The Vault, not like we do here in the land of soft sentencing for crooks. So I don't think I even need to bother kicking this "sex fiend's" sorry arse in there... Sex fiend jailed for 4060 years A TEXAN man has been sentenced to over 4000 years in prison for sexually assaulting three [...] [more]Nemesis
Obama Pulls Out Magnificent Soldiers from Campaign of Victory
Posted 30 hours ago
By Con George-Kotzabasis In the annals of history and war no statesman or military leader ever pulled out his troops from a crucial military engagement at the threshold of its military victory. But in a reversal of these annals it will be written that in the twenty-first century the Commander-in- Chief of a great nation pledged [...] [more]Mustafa Has No Qualms of Being Both Muslim and Western but Don’t Serve him Pork
Posted 6 days ago
Racism for the Mainstream By Mustafa Quadri On Line Opinion, May 9, 2008 A short reply by Con George-Kotzabasis Mustafa destroys his own argument that there is a “pseudo-intellectual industry” that vilifies Islam of being violent, led by the American Daniel Pipes, by his own major premise. If Islam is peaceful, as he insinuates, then the greatest vilifiers [...] [more]Faris QC: VSCA 2006 - 2007 - 2008
DPP v Sarkis 2006
Posted 3 months ago
DPP v Sarkis [2006] VSCA 303 (21 December 2006) CRIMINAL LAW – Sentencing – Crown appeal – Handling stolen goods and money laundering – Total effective sentence of three years’ imprisonment – Sentence imposed while respondent serving a sentence of 28 months’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of 17 months in respect of other offences – [...] [more]R v Franco & Ors 2006
Posted 3 months ago
R v Franco & Ors [2006] VSCA 302 (20 December 2006) CRIMINAL LAW – Possession of prohibited import, being not less than a commercial quantity of cannabis resin – Statutory defence if accused did not know of importation – Whether defence open on the evidence – Whether deliberate decision by defence counsel not to argue defence [...] [more]My 2 Cents
Hello im still here
Posted 9 months ago
Hello everyone I’m still here i haven’t left, i have been how you say busy but not busy if you know what i mean. so what have i missed. Do’s any one no off any romantic getaways i need to get a way with my other half,or as they the better half, hehehe but i know better, if [...] [more]Oh My
Posted 10 months ago
Aussie Icons Not having ago at anyone or anything, but they had a poll for the top 9 Aussie Icons the nominees are Steve IrwinAussie entrepreneursThe WallabiesFamous hairstylesKylie MinogueDame EdnaPowerful womenPavlovaJennifer Hawkins Let me see Jennifer Hawkins that’s one for the fellers, Dame Edna that’s one for the ? Kylie Minogue she is for maybe all ages,Famous Hair [...] [more]Best Business Deals!
Motorola F3- A Review
Posted 3 weeks ago
SHORT REVIEW- Buy one. At this price, and with these features it’s a must for any mobile collection. LONG REVIEW- The Motorola F3 is a basic phone. It makes calls and sends SMS’s. Unlike most other cheap phones though, this one actually looks kind of cool with its slim line design. The phone weighs a [...] [more]HTC TyTN II- A Review.
Posted 4 weeks ago
Check out the HTC TyTN II website here. The HTC TyTN II is described as “more powerful than any mobile communications device you’ve seen before, the HTC TyTN II takes global connectivity to the next level,” and to some extent this is probably true. The TyTN II covers all GSM network standards which means that you [...] [more]Ranting and Rambling
I didn’t expect that to happen! ~ Well, actually, I did!
Posted 11 months ago
TOUR de France leader Michael Rasmussen was sensationally kicked out of the race by his own team today, leaving Australian Cadel Evans in second place. The Dutch Rabobank team said the 33-year-old Dane had lied to them and accused him of breaking team rules. Evans is now just 1 min 53 sec from the lead behind [...] [more]An interesting turn of events
Posted 11 months ago
Yesterday, I was saying Sheedy should move on. Today’s events show that the Essendon Board agrees. A sad day for football, but it had to happen. [more]