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Legal affairs and investigative reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald. Connoisseur of fine puns. mwhitbourn@fairfaxmedia.com.au Wickr: mwhitbourn

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    What concerns me most is that the chickens might have been free ranging in Hyde Park; in which case, who knows who they’ve really bin hanging out with?

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    9 hours ago
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    Reminds me of this Farside cartoon.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    So, no legal argy-bargy over the ball-tampering saga via

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    15 hours ago

    Bit like pork spare ribs. ‘None of mine are spare,’ said Peppa Pig. ‘May I keep them all, please?’

    An eatery in Sydney’s legal district boasts the city’s best free-range chicken schnitzels. It makes me happy to think of the little schnitzels roaming free.
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    18 hours ago
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    My fave misspelling of schnitzel is 'shnizle' which I saw once at an establishment in Jervis Bay. It has a nice nasal twang to it when said aloud.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    An eatery in Sydney’s legal district boasts the city’s best free-range chicken schnitzels. It makes me happy to think of the little schnitzels roaming free.

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    Apr 2

    Is there a page in the parenting book for when your 4yo has a mindbending tantrum at the park, your 2yo is pecked by a cockatoo, then face plants, and you walk your screaming, bloodied children back to the car while onlookers have their thumbs lingering over 000? Lemme know.

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    Apr 3

    Here’s my first online story for . Blayney’s only Muslim family successfully apply for an Islamic burial section in the cemetery bc they want to be in the town they love forever.

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  9. Apr 4

    Well HELLO there is a new podcast about the ABC series Seachange and I really cannot imagine anything more in my wheelhouse. Charmed. Delighted. Excited.

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    Apr 3

    Update: we're definitely expecting Salim to walk out in coming hours. The woman with two teeth was wrong. Moral of the story: consider the source.

    A woman with two teeth just told us Salim Mehajer isn't even getting out today, so there's the inside scoop from Silverwater.
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    Apr 3

    For those of of who enjoy a carefully worded judgment, try

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    Apr 3

    Cafe waiter to‘ Are you ready to order ‘?. Boyfriend ‘ No not yet , she’s looking at Instagram ‘ ....... That will do me

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    Apr 3

    Magistrate to solicitor after failed application: “Just tell Mr X you had a very difficult magistrate and you tried your best but there was nothing you could do. He’ll believe that.” Mag: ”Now, who is that on the screen? Everyone: “That’s Mr X.” He’d been listening the whole time

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    Apr 2

    The Governor-General has awarded an Australian Bravery Award to the late Katrina Dawson. Katrina was one of our best and brightest barristers at . Katrina is missed.

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    16 Aug 2016
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    let's face it: he may be talented, debonair and devastatingly handsome, but Hugh Jackman is no David Hammerschlag

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    Apr 2

    Someone said they’re always standing like sims waiting for instructions and that killed me.

    The happy couple on Easter morning
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    Apr 3

    Masterful use of a bin-chook in this story:

    Australia's central bank sits tight in "masterful" inaction
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  18. Apr 2

    With the stroke of a pen, the Nauruan government has scrapped appeals to the High Court of Australia via

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  19. Mar 30

    In which I write about cricket. And legal things.

    David Warner's day of reckoning arrives
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    Mar 29

    Ghosts of members of the Razor Gang and other crimeland notables from Sydney from early last century haunting the surrounds of the Justice and Police Museum

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