Matt Harper

@jdbanker1 @ProfRobAnderson Trusts don't have legal personality, the trustees of the trust do.

@ProfRobAnderson but wait there's more: trusts, monasteries, the Crown.

One of the first things students learn in a business organizations class is that corporations are distinctive in law because they have legal personality. What they don't learn is that for centuries there has been another entity with legal personality--the ship. Why is this 1/

@ivan_yaakov @fabiodeuxbeer

@Matt_HG @fabiodeuxbeer I typed this to atone. His name was Matt Harper. Twenty-seven. Loud, bright, full of life. And I ended it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. We were just arguing then he said something, but I said something worse. I shoved him. He fell. Hit his head on a rock. He didn’t get back up.

I'm calling it the Global Auckland Belt

@dyllan_jay @nalbis Melourne IMAX has 70mm

@nalbis You're gonna have to be specific. Closest IMAX Laser digital? 15-20 minutes, 6 miles. Closest IMAX 70mm? Irvine Spectrum, 2 hours with traffic, 90 miles.

everyone share your closest IMAX cinema, i’ll start

@undefinedhandle @cosmicjester This is not even remotely correct. Melbourne is on track to surpass Sydney's population in the next few decades. Melbourne and Sydney between them split most of the headquarters of our biggest companies. Both are far bigger than Brisbane. Completely different league.

@cosmicjester it’s weird because they are totally different classes of city and Melbourne doesn’t seem to realise it. Melbourne’s closest competitor is Brisbane, not Sydney

Does the constant Melbourne v Sydney sniping ever get tiring for the participants? They are both nice cities with their strengths and flaws but good lord the arguments are boring.

@guilhernunes_ Is that the Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs coming down outside

Struthiomimus crying in the bar after having his heart broken

@michaelkoziol If they tried to build any of the 7 Wonders of the World today, they would be opposed by the planning commissions on the basis of being inappropriate for their sites. We'd all be living in caves if the TPC held government.

Planning bureaucrats opposing an AFL stadium because it would “irrevocably change the way in which the landscape and urban pattern is appreciated and understood” is surely one for the ages theage.com.au/sport/afl/blow…

"Look at the union reps, look how they shine for you, and everything you do..."

@newaltwhothis1 @IAmGoughWhitlam You're right, let's keep the poors where they belong.

@IAmGoughWhitlam The best thing the government could do for working class and impoverished young people is make more tafe courses free. Plus the country need more builders, aged care workers ect.

@DrewPavlou Because that was the law for thousands of years and people didn't stop doing it.

After having my wallet stolen and $1000 taken off my bank cards today, I now support the death penalty for property crimes. People would stop doing this if they knew they could die as a result. Please explain to me why I’m wrong.

MEDIA RELEASE: Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and entrenching selective approaches to racism that serve political agendas. The report is riddled with misinformation and claims about nefarious funding sources for protests and universities that verge on conspiracy theory. The Council is especially concerned about the plan’s strong endorsement of the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. The Council criticised the plan's emphasis on surveillance, censorship, and punitive control over the funding of cultural and educational institutions: measures straight out of Trump’s authoritarian playbook. We caution that some of the recommendations — including visa powers and judicial inquiries into student activity — risk censoring criticism of Israel, deepening racism, and failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. The Council is calling on the government to: Ground its response in anti-racist principles that include tackling Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, racism against First Nations people and all other forms of racism; Engage a broad spectrum of Jewish voices, including those critical of Israel, who have not been consulted in the development of this plan; Reject authoritarian proposals that erode civil liberties under the false guise of Jewish safety. Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia: “This document reads more like a blueprint for silencing dissent rather than a strategy to build inclusion. The report’s vague language around ‘antisemitic narratives’ or ‘affiliations’ , coupled with its emphasis on the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, make the actions recommended dangerously unclear. Consistent with her past statements erroneously linking antisemitic attacks with Palestine solidarity protests, Segal seems fixated on driving a pro-Israel narrative and repressing legitimate criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Antisemitism is real and must be taken seriously. But it does not exist in a vacuum. Any response that treats antisemitism as exceptional, while ignoring Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, and other forms of hate, is doomed to fail.”

@Urban_Immerser @ItsDoonby In what way?

@ItsDoonby I think there is a big element of common law though.

It's not common law, it's a shared planning profession that's fundamentally wrong in important ways about how the world works.

@aussiewongm Hah, yes! Always got a kick out of that one as a kid growing up in the south-east

@Matt_HG You mean Ernst Wanke Drive.

Blog: Google Maps showing route numbers instead of actual street names wongm.com/2025/07/google…

@aussiewongm "turn left once you get to Cockburn road" ok right on, I'm not forgetting that one

@aussiewongm Alpha-numbers are lot harder to remember than street names, and they have no soul. "Turn left once you get to route 15af4" what??

This sort of thing makes me really sad. Why do so many parents think the best thing they can do for their children's education is to price poorer people out of their neighbourhoods? abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0…

@Phase667 "I dislike the idea of helping the rich, who will go to uni anyway, so instead I will punish the poor, who would probably not otherwise be able to go to uni without this help" Look buddy I hate handouts for the rich as much as anybody but this argument is pointless sophistry

This is why free university is bad btw, it disproportionately gives hand outs to who will be the wealthiest in society.

An amazing story to publish the same week you lose a court case for firing a journalist who shared a post from Human Rights Watch

@Q2Quokka You're right actually, poor kids should only aspire to the trades where they belong.

We stand up for worker’s rights. We stand up for press freedom. We stand up for human rights. We win. @JoshBBornstein