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The covid-19 pandemic and our response to it, has often seemed like a plot to a thriller, with twists and turns at every stage where: The...
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Sandy Barrett
Apr 23, 20216 min read
A Dance with Dragons
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the made-for-tv series, Game of Thrones. When the upstanding and respected character, Ned Stark,...
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Sandy Barrett
Apr 21, 20214 min read
Together, our favourite place to be!
All humans make mistakes, that is a fact of life. Some mistakes are made from inaccuracies, others from oversights, miscalculations,...
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Sandy Barrett
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Whetting the whistle
To be a successful lawyer, you need to understand the law, but you also need to know how to fight, especially if you are representing...
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Mar 24, 20212 min read
We have take off!
We have successfully filed the Detention Towers Class Action in the Supreme Court of Victoria. We are so proud of our efforts and your...
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Sandy Barrett
Mar 23, 20213 min read
It's splat to the Cat in the Hat
"You have to be odd to be number one" is just one of many memorable and famous lines quoted from the immensely popular children’s books...
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Sandy Barrett
Mar 17, 20212 min read
They're going to play a game with you!
Any child of the 70s and 80s would have memories of Romper Room. This children’s television program was filled with juvenile songs that...
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Sandy Barrett
Mar 15, 20213 min read
The fly and the cannon
When our Health Minister, Greg Hunt, was famously hospitalised after receiving his AstraZeneca vaccine, with cellulitis announced as the...
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Sandy Barrett
Mar 10, 20211 min read
The Power of NO!
In 1997 Eckhart Tolle released his seminal classic book "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". This guide for day-to-day...
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Sandy Barrett
Jan 25, 20213 min read
Quite Contrary
Fortunate as it may be to have such foresight, it is frightening to see what is coming
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Sandy Barrett
Jan 25, 20214 min read
Crash Test Dummies
Is it really such a stretch to question the speed with which our department of health is looking to approve a COVID-19 vaccine?
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Sandy Barrett
Jan 25, 20213 min read
A New Religion
There was a time when humankind held the belief that our planet was flat and the horizon represented the end of the earth. Galileo was...
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Sandy Barrett
Jan 4, 20213 min read
The Goose and the Gander
When China is questioning our human rights record, you feel the irony of their statement.
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Sandy Barrett
Nov 26, 20203 min read
Crossing the Lines of Defence
This year has been a year of great transformation. And often transformation can bring about a degree of discomfort; I don't know anybody...
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 31, 20203 min read
May the Force be with you
As we watch on with fear as Europe's flu season begins, covid-19 cases spike and governments start implementing even more harsh...
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 27, 20204 min read
Prisoner Island: Our forsaken stranded Australians
This is not a new film by George Miller, it's the reality for an Australian couple - the 2020 version of what it means to be Australian....
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 23, 20205 min read
The illusion of choice - Our Political Dilemma
There is one thing that everyone has got in 2020 and it is not covid-19, it is an opinion. Everyone has one about this pandemic and how...
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Lock, stock and two smoking barrels
With the response to the pandemic seeming more like a game of thugs, gangsters and debt collectors, it’s not surprising to see more...
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 4, 20204 min read
2020 Vision
In January we heard news of a new 'novel' virus coming out of China that was sweeping through the population of Wuhan. When the Attorney...
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Sandy Barrett
Oct 1, 20202 min read
The Ominous Bill
Many of you have expressed your concern with the Victorian Governments Omnibus Bill and its looming expansion and extension. You have...
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