Dylan Lino

@m_clark5 @MelbLawSchool @NTEULaTrobe Congrats comrade!

some socially necessary labour time news; i'll be joining @MelbLawSchool in feb 2025. very excite to be back, and will miss my la trobe law colleagues and comrades, and especially @NTEULaTrobe branch!!

The Lancet article estimating the death toll stood *conservatively* at 186,000 was based on a timeline going to June 2024. It would now stand at 335,500 according to Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

1) The day the UNGA overwhelmingly called on all states not to render aid or assistance in maintaining Israel’s illegal occupation of the OPT, the International Legal Scholars Against Genocide submission to Australia's sanctions review is online (sub. 5) aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…

@OrentaOren @SCalLRev @TheAALS Congratulations Oren!

Psyched to report that my @SCalLRev paper, Our Parochial Administrative Law, is the winner of the 2025 Mark Tushnet Prize awarded by the @TheAALS section on comparative law. Thanks so much to the committee for their work and for selecting the paper! 1/n

@ntinatzouvala Woohoo congrats to all!

We are excited to share the publication of a new open access book, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System, edited by Julia Dehm, Nicole Graham (@DrNGraham), and Zoe Nay, published by La Trobe eBureau latrobe.edu.au/library/open-s…

@ntinatzouvala Congrats Ntina!

Last week to submit your abstracts for the Australian Progressive Legal Studies workshop!

CC @ntinatzouvala, @juliadehm, @EddieSynot, @m_clark5

Comrades: it's almost your last chance to submit an abstract for the November workshop of Australian Progressive Legal Studies! They're due this Friday (extended deadline)

@sanjayjahlee DW Livingstone’s work should help. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/tipping-p… and brill.com/display/title/…. Also pieces in Jacobin

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Extremely sad news: Jane McAlevey <@rsgexp>, the organizer, writer, and human dynamo, died this morning. I knew her for over 20 years and loved and admired her.

@annajsaunders @ANZSIL Congratulations Anna! So well deserved

@profsarahj @WendyLacey6 Yeah what all of this points to is ambiguity. I’m agree with Anne T that the issues are less constitutional than political. Personally I’d like to see expansive Cth power to charter public energy corps (just not nuclear ones). I think there are plausible arguments for that

@Dylan_Lino @WendyLacey6 It’s using s96 now but States can refuse as VIC has. 96 won’t help nukes if States stay opposed 116 argument failed in Williams so not sure why 116 would stop them creating a chaplaincy company. This article is sceptical but old: classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/Fe…

It’s several days and afaik we still don’t know head of power for nuke policy. 51(31) can’t work on its own.

@profsarahj @WendyLacey6 Cth can already get around the spending limits with s96. Probably couldn’t set up a chaplaincy company due to s116. But in general yes, if it was willing to (quelle horreur) set up public enterprises rather than (try to) contract out, that would be ok. Again my priors are showing

@Dylan_Lino @WendyLacey6 If the Cth can do that it can pretty much get around the limits in its spending powers. Eg just set up the aforementioned chaplaincy company. Williams 2 mightn’t gel with Workchoices. But it’s the more recent case.

@profsarahj @WendyLacey6 Yeah I think that’s a plausible argument. But spending is ordinary capacity and incorporation is (from one angle) prerogative. There’s also a plausible argument to say both the Cth and States get prerogative of incorporation without limits. But my pro-Cth priors are showing

@Dylan_Lino @WendyLacey6 There’s prerog/common law power to set up a Corp but not nec for any purpose (as it is with UK). Cth doesn’t have all prerogs that UK does as they’re split with States. I think it’d be odd if Cth can set up a Corp for any reason when it can’t spend for any reason

@profsarahj @WendyLacey6 That’s true (although Williams 2 is hard to reconcile with WorkChoices on that front). Even aside from common law capacities and nationhood, though, there’s a prerogative power to charter corporations (eg, East India Co). That plus 51(xx) or 51(xxxix) would get them there imo

@WendyLacey6 @Dylan_Lino Note re the corps route. Williams 2 said corps power can’t be used to pay a Corp. So Cth couldn’t eg set up a chaplaincy company and pay it to provide chaplains. So it can’t set up a nuke company and then pay for it. Tho maybe it can regulate it

@profsarahj @WendyLacey6 Doesn’t the Cth Exec have the power to establish corporations, either by virtue of the prerogative or common law capacities (also nationhood power as in Davis)? And once established Parliament can regulate them under 51(xx) or 51(xxxix)?

@WendyLacey6 51(xx) gives no power over incorporation so i can’t see that it gives power to create a company to do whatever Cth wants 51(31) and 52(2) seem inconsistent

@hivis2020 @sarah_missen reddit.com/r/WorkplaceOrg…

Working on a workplace delegate starters guide with some other delegates, with a focus on Australian conditions and a bit of radical education. Looking for tips that active union members and delegates were looking for when they first started getting organised! @sarah_missen