Kooyong corflute kerfuffle https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/kooyong-monique-ryan-amelia-hamer-sign-injunction/105233842 #auspol #auslaw #ausvotes

Coalition confirms it would introduce vape tax and allow vapes to be sold at retail stores https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/recreational-vaping-to-be-allowed-under-a-dutton-government/105239948

New Book - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/28/is-a-river-alive-by-robert-macfarlane-review-streams-of-consciousness #rightsofnature

Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-funding-npr-pbs.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Curious Federal-State contradictions. The Federal Coalition plans to make vapes more widely available https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/02/coalition-vape-tax-retail-stores-sales Meanwhile, Queensland's State LNP Coalition has presented and supported a bill to allow for the seizure, forfeiture, and destruction of vapes https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Tabled-Papers/docs/5825t0447/5825t447.pdf #vaping #health #auspol #auslaw

New Book - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/28/is-a-river-alive-by-robert-macfarlane-review-streams-of-consciousness #rightsofnature

RecipeTin Eats vs Brooki Bakehouse: Why copyright in the kitchen is a murky field - By Julia Abbondanza https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/recipetin-eats-vs-brooki-bakehouse-why-copyright-in-the-kitchen-is-a-murky-field/dhahappzf with a comment from me, highlighting how cooking recipes do not fit easily within copyright law. #recipes #copyright #passingoff #consumerlaw #auslaw I also give a bit of a shout-out to the Sprigman book 'The Knockoff Economy' which explores subject matter on the shadowlands of IP - such as recipes, comedy, fashion.

The Gruffalo returns - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/30/gruffalo-new-book-julia-donaldson-axel-scheffler

Amyl and the Sniffers win song of the year at 2025 Apra awards https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/30/amyl-and-the-sniffers-win-song-of-the-year-at-2025-apra-awards
U Should Not Be Doing That wins for Melbourne punk quartet, while Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker wins most performed Australian work and most performed pop work #music

Coalition confirms it would introduce vape tax and allow vapes to be sold at retail stores https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/recreational-vaping-to-be-allowed-under-a-dutton-government/105239948

Kooyong corflute kerfuffle https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/kooyong-monique-ryan-amelia-hamer-sign-injunction/105233842 #auspol #auslaw #ausvotes

RecipeTin Eats vs Brooki Bakehouse: Why copyright in the kitchen is a murky field - By Julia Abbondanza https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/recipetin-eats-vs-brooki-bakehouse-why-copyright-in-the-kitchen-is-a-murky-field/dhahappzf with a comment from me, highlighting how cooking recipes do not fit easily within copyright law. #recipes #copyright #passingoff #consumerlaw #auslaw I also give a bit of a shout-out to the Sprigman book 'The Knockoff Economy' which explores subject matter on the shadowlands of IP - such as recipes, comedy, fashion.

US economy slows dramatically in first quarter amid #Trump’s sweeping #tariffs - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/30/economy-gdp-q1-trump-tariffs "Drop comes amid a huge fall in consumer sentiment which in April dropped 32% to lowest level since 1990 recession" going down....

The Gruffalo returns - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/30/gruffalo-new-book-julia-donaldson-axel-scheffler

Amyl and the Sniffers win song of the year at 2025 Apra awards https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/30/amyl-and-the-sniffers-win-song-of-the-year-at-2025-apra-awards
U Should Not Be Doing That wins for Melbourne punk quartet, while Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker wins most performed Australian work and most performed pop work #music

A federal judge dismissed a copyright suit filed against the makers of the TV show “Yellowjackets,” finding the series isn’t substantially similar to a 2015 film “Eden” despite both works revolving around a soccer team stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash.

“Yellowjackets,” which is set in two timelines, didn’t copy the “survival” plotline from Eden Film Production LLC’s movie “Eden,” Judge Dean D. Pregerson said in an opinion granting a motion to dismiss in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
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“There can be no serious dispute that escape attempts by shipwrecked or stranded survivors are prevalent throughout fiction and history, from Odysseus, Robinson Crusoe, and Gilligan to Shackleton and the Uruguayan rugby team,” Pregerson wrote. “Instances of competition, tribalism, and factionalism in disaster scenarios or in response to resource scarcity are nearly as commonplace, from ‘The Tempest’ to ‘Survivor’ to much of the post-apocalyptic genre, such as the ‘Mad Max’ films or any of a number of zombie stories, to, most archetypically, ‘Lord of the Flies.’” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judge-tosses-yellowjackets-suit-finding-show-didnt-copy-film
#copyright #TV #film

Trump administration targets Harvard Law Review https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-administration-harvard-law-review-1.7521003

Justine Bell-James, ‘The Pact for the Future, Climate Change, and the Environment’, The Summit of the Future, QUT Energy Transition Centre, 29 November 2024, https://youtu.be/V5grnMCYh_o

From Merseyside to Australia: Liverpool fans revel in title success
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/29/liverpool-fans-merseyside-global-supporters-football
Reds supporters from across the globe react to their team being crowned Premier League champions. #YNWA #LFC

ABC chair Kim Williams says email criticising staff for declining to interview Austen Tayshus was ‘inappropriate’ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/29/austen-tayshus-comedian-sandy-gutman-abc-chair-kim-williams-ntwnfb