Divorce courts clogged with year-long backlog of cases With 100,000 cases clogging Australia’s divorce courts in the past year, some court hearings have already been pushed back to 2022.
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Subscriber only Divorce courts are clogged with a year-long backlog of cases, as highly-paid judges enjoy up to 10 weeks holidays while postponing court hearings until 2022. Divorce disputes are heard in two courts - the Family Court, which fielded a five-year high of 21,054 applications in 2019/2020, or the Federal Circuit Court (FCC), which received 85,563 family law cases, including 45,886 divorce applications the same year. The 33 Family Court judges, who hear the most complex disputes, are paid a base salary of $468,020 plus 15 per cent superannuation and a car allowance - with eight weeks holidays.
Which of the big four banks will be first to ban credit card gambling?
Going into 2021, you would think the concept of a social licence to operate would have more currency among the tin-eared bankers of Australia.
NAB chairman Philip Chronican (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
It wasn’t just Attorney-General Christian Porter who waited until the last Friday before Christmas to take out the trash. The big four banks are pretty good at it too.
The corporate community knows that AGMs held on a Friday tend to get less coverage and scrutiny, so it was no surprise that NAB chose the end of last week. The bank knew it was going to cop a grilling on climate policies, while a large minority of its shareholders once again rejected the board’s recommendation and voted 26.8% in favour of a shareholder resolution calling for more transparent reporting on its move out of lending to coal, oil and gas companies.
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Unpacking Fair Work Act’s new casual conversion “right”
Earlier this week, the federal government unveiled the much-anticipated Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 in parliament.
One of the key areas of focus for the federal government was casual employment and the ability for casual workers to convert to permanent employment if certain conditions were met.
The explanatory memorandum to the newly unveiled bill suggests that a statutory obligation to offer conversion to permanent employment will “help employees engaged as casual employees who work regularly to become ongoing employees, if that is their preference”.
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Arsehat of the Year update: in praise of the also-rans
In any other year, you d think Christian Porter would be a shoo-in.
Attorney-General Christian Porter (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)
The Arsehat of the Year poll has comes to resemble the US election. Two candidates, uniquely awful in their own ways, have attracted monumental voter turnout from their respective bases (people who read
Crikey in the case of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and people who do what Jordan Shanks tells them in the case of Jordan Shanks). But for now, we’re casting our eye on some of the other candidates.