Jeffrey Phillips SC » Guest Columnist https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:42:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Talk of Soviet sympathies puts focus on political ties https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/talk-of-soviet-sympathies-puts-focus-on-political-ties/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talk-of-soviet-sympathies-puts-focus-on-political-ties https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/talk-of-soviet-sympathies-puts-focus-on-political-ties/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 12:21:40 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=677 [caption id="attachment_600" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Josephine Kelly"]Josephine Kelly, Sydney Barrister[/caption] AUSTRALIAN National University academic Desmond Ball recently highlighted one little-known feature of the life of former High Court judge Herbert Vere Evatt. When he was minister for external affairs in the late 1940s, Evatt either knew about or turned a blind eye to alleged Soviet agents in his office. Evatt was a Labor member of the NSW parliament from 1925 to 1930, a justice of the High Court of Australia from 1930 to 1940 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1940 to 1960, where he held offices including attorney-general, minister for external affairs and leader of the opposition. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of NSW from 1960 to 1962.]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/talk-of-soviet-sympathies-puts-focus-on-political-ties/feed/ 198 The river is the only consideration https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Josephine-Kelly-sydney-barrister-land-and-environment-law?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-river-is-the-only-consideration https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Josephine-Kelly-sydney-barrister-land-and-environment-law#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:41:37 +0000 Jeffrey Phillips SC http://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/?p=596 Josephine Kelly, Sydney BarristerPlease let me welcome guest columnist Josephine Kelly, a friend of mine who has had an extensive practice at the Sydney Bar in Land and Environment Law. Her article on water use was published in the Australian Financial Review on the 16th November. It is well worth reading as is another recent article she wrote for The Australian called Climate change sceptics lose battle as onus of proof shift.
No political party or Independent member in the Federal parliament is being honest with the people of the Murray-Darling Basin and the Australian public. The Water Act puts the environment first when allocating water in the Murray-Darling Basin. Social and economic considerations are not relevant to deciding how much water the environment needs. Water available for human use is what is left.]]> https://jeffreyphillipssc.com.au/Josephine-Kelly-sydney-barrister-land-and-environment-law/feed/ 225