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	<title>Peter A Clarke</title>
	<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au</link>
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		<title>Stieg Larsson publishes from beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent report in the Age that two science fiction stories by Stieg Larsson have been discovered. The Swedish National Library will now decide whether they will be made public.
Retrieval of famous author&#8217;s earlier burnt offerings are quite common practice.  Whether it is a good practice is another thing.  When James Elroy became a minor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/06/15/stieg-larsson-publishes-from-beyond-9/</link>
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		<title>Matthew Newton a case study on privacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was initially appalled by the media&#8217;s intrusion into Matthew Newton&#8217;s admission for in patient treatment for substance abuse.  That is one of those matters where privacy should be afforded.  In UK the House of Lords found it so with Naomi Campbell in Campbell v MGN Limited. The media, especially the tabloid press. were all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/17/matthew-newton-a-case-study-on-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Employment, wrongful dismissal, loss of opportunity; Guthrie v News Limited [2010] VSC 196 (14 May 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday there was judgment for Bruce Guthrie in Guthrie v News Limited.  It was a very high profile case, at least in Victoria. It is a long and quite complicated decision.

FACTS

After some negotiations, [5] &#8211; [6], News Limited (&#8220;News&#8221;), engaged Bruce Guthrie (&#8220;Guthrie&#8221;), as editor in chief of the Herald Sun, commencing 19 February [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/16/employment-wrongful-dismissal-loss-of-opportunity-guthrie-v-news-limited-2010-vsc-196-14-may-2010/</link>
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		<title>US Congressmen publish internet privacy bill</title>
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Members of the House of Representatives, Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns, members of  the House&#8217;s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet have introduced a bill that mandates information to be given to  website visitors to improve privacy protections in the US. It also lists  types of data that can be used until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/09/us-congressmen-publish-internet-privacy-bill/</link>
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		<title>Model provisions for Suppression Orders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a welcome development the Standing Committee of Attorneys &#8211; General have endorsed a model provisions for suppression and non publication orders.
Of particular interest is:

an online register will be established to improve the dissemination of information about suppression orders and provide for the distribution of details on a national scale; and

a register which will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/06/model-provisions-for-suppression-orders/</link>
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		<title>A truly confusing piece from Albrechtson in today&#8217;s Australian..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Janet Albrechtson has a reasonble political antena. For that I respect her.  When she steps out and starts talking philosophy she is a red meat eating conservative of fairly unsubtle tone.  Her take on civil liberties is High Tory and sniffy at individual rights. So I was on red alert when I read the banner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/05/a-truly-confusing-piece-from-albrechtson-in-todays-australian/</link>
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		<title>Price Waterhouse study into security risk assessment</title>
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According to a Price Waterhouse Coopers Study even though companies were improving their security risk assessment procedures and spending more on IT security, they were suffering from record levels of security breaches, with incidents double in number what they were two years ago.
The study found that when using new technologies, companies are failing to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/03/price-waterhouse-study-into-security-risk-assessment/</link>
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		<title>Another chance to admire Orwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to overestimate the impact of Orwell on satire.  Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four are clear,unequivocal and beautifully written clarion calls against totalitarianism.  If one was to read only two authors to gain an appreciation of how to write clear prose those individuals would be Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell.  Their prose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/02/another-chance-to-admire-orwell/</link>
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		<title>Principles governing grant of leave to appeal from a discretionary order where the appeal proceeds as a hearing de novo, non compliance with discovery orders.Re Saeco Australia Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 161 (29 April 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making an application to re instate a proceeding which was struck out because of non compliance with court orders is often a grinding experience.  Such applications are generally made in the teeth of vigorous opposition notwithstanding the reluctance of courts to shut out litigants.  The issue in Re Saeco Australia Pty Ltd was whether leave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/05/02/principles-governing-grant-of-leave-to-appeal-from-a-discretionary-order-where-the-appeal-proceeds-as-a-hearing-de-novo-non-compliance-with-discovery-orders-re-saeco-australia-pty-ltd-2010-vsc-161/</link>
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		<title>Memorable anniversary &#8211; the Lousiana Purchase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who is the greatest American President?  A common question asked amongst history buffs and occasional magazine pieces.  Lincoln gets the nod more  often than not as does Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Then things get contentious; Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams etc&#8230;
In terms of impact on the world Thomas Jefferson is by far the most important President.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peteraclarke.com.au/2010/04/30/memorable-anniversary-the-lousiana-purchase/</link>
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