“I have encountered your nemesis!” The reader attached the following photograph: This is, indeed, the street sign I refer to in the book as a particularly disturbing example of ambiguity. Look, to be honest it’s not even ambiguous. It’s actually meaningless. What are these “other times”? When does the 15-minute restriction not apply? Is there Continue reading

… Or were we? In what was, for me, a new – and, one hopes, not often to be repeated – experience, I was recently called out, in public, as having made a mistake in my book. I had been invited “upstairs” for what turned out to be an occasion to mark the dubious achievement Continue reading

A lot of people have asked me* for an explanation of the chapter titles in the book. It is time to reveal all. 1. “Hi, How Are You?” is the name of an album by American “outsider” musician Daniel Johnston. I may have inferred the question mark. 2. “Manifesto” is a Roxy Music album. 3. Continue reading

So, yes, I wrote a book. But is it any good? I couldn’t possibly say. But you might take a look at page two of the 22 December 2023 issue of the Queensland Law Reporter for an independent assessment. Continue reading

One of the many things I learnt from writing this book is that, once you submit the final manuscript to your publisher, things move very quickly. In this way, a six-year marathon suddenly became a short and very fast sprint. It is for this reason, and only this reason, that the book doesn’t have an Continue reading

On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 we had a launch for the book. Thanks to Katerina and Mai at the ANU branch of Harry Hartog for helping to make the evening a success. And big thanks to K M Hayne AC, former Justice of the High Court and present exemplary human being, for agreeing to do Continue reading