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Trading Stock

by | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorised

For only the first time in the history of this blog, I have been on holidays and busy and missed two months in a row. Let me remedy that now. What would the start of the new financial year be, without a little tax story about trading stock. I discovered this when I...

The AI Bunny Bread Saga

by | May 30, 2025 | Uncategorised

I was lacking ideas for this month’s blog and decided to useClaude AI to “Find me an amusing or funny Australian legal story that I can write a blog about”. Claude came up with the “Bunny Bread Saga” from 2018, which involved a dispute...

The Tax Deduction

by | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorised

Advising on tax deductions and tax law generally is not something that I usually do. However, I recently came across the Full Federal Court case of Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa [2003] FCAFC 125. In the best traditions of this blog, I was actually looking for the...

Prosecutor’s Fallacy

by | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorised

The so‑called ‘prosecutor’s fallacy’ describes the risk that the fact finding tribunal will reason that evidence of the match probability or the likelihood ratio expresses the probability that an incriminating DNA sample was the DNA of the accused...

Character cancellation

by | Jan 30, 2025 | Uncategorised

Character cancellation of permanent residence visas is a topic that I have blogged about before. Attempting to get character cancellation decisions revoked in the ART is one of my areas of practice. Usually the odds are stacked against success. In my matter this week...