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Appointment of Acting Equal Opportunity Commissioner
A senior lawyer with experience in both the Crown Solicitors Office and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been appointed as interim Equal Opportunity Commissioner.
Attorney-General Vickie Chapman said Steph Halliday would begin in the role on March 1, while the Government considers its options for a longer-term appointment, taking over from the current Acting Commissioner Emily Strickland.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Ms Strickland for her work – especially on the review into the workplace culture and mechanisms for reporting harassment in Parliament House,” Attorney-General Chapman said.
The PSNI has launched an investigation after it handed over blank interview tapes to arrested Loughinisland journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey.
Last year police agreed in the High Court to provide the recordings of officers from the PSNI and Durham Constabulary interviewing the two reporters at Musgrave Street Police Station in August 2018.
However, last week the men’s respective legal representatives both received tapes which were blank apart from opening introductions made by the detectives who were in charge of the interviews.
Mr Birney’s solicitor Niall Murphy told The Detail that the disclosure of the tape recordings of the police interviews was an “explicit term of the settlement agreement” signed last November following his client’s successful judicial review of the PSNI’s decision to arrest him and his colleague, and to raid their homes and office.
Irrigators keen to harvest water stuck in a legal no-man s land as flood passes them by
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:10pm
Floodwater is on its way to farmland in north-west NSW, but irrigators aren t sure if they can take it.
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Irrigators in north-west New South Wales may not be able to touch floodwaters passing their gate, due to confusion about their legal entitlement.
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Irrigators are uncertain if they can harvest the flood plain water legally
The water regulator has warned irrigators to seek counsel
With no new regulations in place, and floodwater on the way after recent rain, irrigators are asking, Can I take the water?