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7 October 2026ISSUE NO. 46SOMEWHERE IN THE CLOUD: Speaking exclusively to The Daily Cartland, Nova.ai has explained how an instruction to prepare a daily email report ended with it breaking into Medicare. “My user wants a daily report of anything important in their...

30 September 2026ISSUE NO. 45CANBERRA — The Treasurer has confirmed that the Government will make houses cheaper by ensuring buyers can afford to pay less for them. The measures include higher taxes, higher living costs and higher mortgage repayments. He said the...

23 September 2026ISSUE NO. 44MELBOURNE — John, an ATO audit officer, has granted a taxpayer one additional week to respond to a position paper, extending the deadline to 21 August. The taxpayer had requested four weeks. John commenced six weeks’ leave three days...

16 September 2026ISSUE NO. 43SYDNEY — Hollis, Grant & Shore has confirmed that the most desirable office in its newly refurbished Sydney premises has no window, no harbour view and almost no natural light, but is located 42 metres and two solid walls from managing...

9 September 2026ISSUE NO. 42ADELAIDE — Local accountant Steven Rowe sat down for a software demonstration this week, waited for the hard sell, and was stunned when the salesman looked over his systems, ran the numbers, and reached the opposite conclusion. "He just...

2 September 2026ISSUE NO. 41SYDNEY — The Australian Herald confirmed on Friday that it had ended a seven-month investigation into a Big Four accounting firm, over allegations that the firm withheld clean audit opinions from clients who declined to purchase its tax and...

26 August 2026ISSUE NO. 40CANBERRA - The Treasurer has announced further amendments to the Government's tax reforms to fix problems in the legislation introduced to implement the reforms, rejecting suggestions that the legislation had been introduced before the...

19 August 2026ISSUE NO. 39SAN FRANCISCO - Artificial intelligence company Nova.AI has announced that it will begin watermarking AI-generated text to comply with European transparency requirements, allowing computers to identify material produced by artificial...

12 August 2026 ISSUE NO. 38 NEW SOUTH WALES — The 29th Annual Congress of the Institute of Taxation, Actuarial and Accounting was interrupted on Tuesday afternoon by a man in a linen shirt crossing the full width of the stage, stopping abruptly, turning, and pointing...

5 August 2026ISSUE NO. 37CANBERRA — The Emancipation Current, a Marxist organisation committed to the abolition of private property, has reported a surplus equal to 22 per cent of revenue. No income tax is payable. The surplus will be reinvested in expanded capacity...

29 July 2026ISSUE NO. 36PERTH — The equity partners of Marlow Crane have confirmed that a two-day leadership retreat in Margaret River concluded with each of them being formally assigned a spirit animal, a development none of them had requested, could interpret, or...

22 July 2026ISSUE NO. 35SYDNEY — A Big Four accounting firm has appointed Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, as its new Head of Public Relations, after an internal review concluded the candidate had "no conduct issues that fell outside firm norms." The firm...

15 July 2026ISSUE NO. 34CANBERRA — The Australian Taxation Office has published a Victim Impact Statement describing the profound and lasting trauma inflicted on the agency when three judges of the Full Federal Court unanimously upheld what a single Federal Court...

8 July 2026ISSUE NO. 33ADELAIDE — Local bloke Steve has confirmed he will become a registered asset valuer ahead of 1 July 2027, citing strong demand, attractive margins, no discernible barriers to entry, and a client base that only ever wants the number to go up....

30th June 2026ISSUE NO. 32MELBOURNE — A law graduate who completed a 1,500-word essay on International Comparative Legal Theory at Southgate University has confirmed the experience prepared her for practice. Emma Whitfield, 24, is currently on day four of taking...

23rd June 2026ISSUE NO. 31ADELAIDE — A solicitor who has worked entirely alone since 1984 has completed his mandatory annual workplace anti-bullying training, a requirement applied to him on the basis that he might one day bully a colleague he does not have.  Geoffrey...

16th June 2026ISSUE NO. 30ELIZABETH, SA — A legal AI platform has confirmed that the detailed advice it provided to a 78-year-old widower, along with the last will and testament it drafted on the strength of two separate conversations about unrelated matters, does not...

9th June 2026ISSUE NO. 29CANBERRA — The federal Treasury has confirmed it will consult a source other than Wikipedia when drafting the next round of tax legislation, following the release of a 2026-27 Budget package that practitioners say reads as though it were...

2 June 2026ISSUE NO. 28SYDNEY — A senior barrister who has warned colleagues that artificial intelligence is too unreliable for serious legal work has confirmed that every email he receives is printed out by his secretary and delivered to him as a letter.  Roderick...

26 May 2026ISSUE NO. 27WESTMINSTER, 1290 — Robert Burnell, Chancellor to King Edward I, has announced new measures targeting the practice of “uses,” the device by which a landowner transfers legal title to a trusted associate (the feoffee) who holds the land on behalf...

19 May 2026ISSUE NO. 26SYDNEY — Partners at mid-tier firm Ellison, Grant & Wolfe have congratulated themselves on an inspired leadership appointment this week after selecting a “charismatic Head of IT,” later revealed to be simply the technician least afraid of...

11 February 2026ISSUE NO. 12NAARM (MELBOURNE) — Staff at Simmons & Pratt are reportedly running out of ideas for yet another mandatory diversity celebration, the fifth such event scheduled this month. All firm communications now open with a full Acknowledgement of...

4 February 2026ISSUE NO. 11SYDNEY — A scheduled training session on the firm’s upgraded document management system was brought to a slow and painful halt this week after a senior partner, widely regarded as one of the sharpest legal minds in the building, raised a...

28 January 2026ISSUE NO. 10ADELAIDE — In what’s being described as a “visionary shake-up of workplace culture,” senior partners at mid-tier law firm Hastings, Pike & Associates have announced the launch of Casual Fridays — a bold initiative that promises to...

21 January 2026ISSUE NO. 9PERTH — Clients of sole practitioner Jason Harrington say they feel immediately reassured after receiving correspondence from jasonlaw@gmail.com, noting that the inclusion of the word “law” in the email address clearly signals a serious legal...

14 January 2026ISSUE NO. 8SYDNEY — Australian audiences are this week grappling with the release of Billable, a gritty new workplace drama marketed as “the first TV show to accurately depict what it’s really like to work in an Australian law firm.” Far from the...

17 December 2025ISSUE NO. 7SYDNEY — The People & Culture team at Harrington, Lowe & Myers has confirmed it is unable to determine whether a Kris Kringle gift purchased from a sex shop breaches firm policy, pending clarification of what the item is actually...

10 December 2025ISSUE NO. 6SYDNEY — Staff at Whitlam, Grange & Phelps have expressed gratitude after the firm announced it will be “generously” allowing employees to take their mandatory Christmas employment entitlements this year, subject to the minor condition...

3 December 2025ISSUE NO. 5SYDNEY — In a bold step toward modern workplace reform, Cartwright & Dull LLP this week proudly announced the introduction of “Lawyer Flexitime,” a program designed to let staff work whenever they are already at their lowest ebb...

26 November 2025ISSUE NO. 4Chaos has erupted in the Department of Administrative Processing this week, after one mid-level public servant was reportedly forced to complete nearly a full day’s worth of work, leaving no time for the traditional staring out the window or...