Peter Bartlett has notched up a milestone unlikely to be surpassed.
, who is celebrating 50 years as a partner in legal firm MinterEllison – a milestone unlikely to be surpassed.from 1980, when the paper pulled a story about the Anzus Papers for legal reasons and replaced it with an advertisement.
His life turned a corner at Flinders Golf Club when his dad and brother chanced to meet a partner at law firm Gillott Moir & Winneke, who later offered him articles. The firm, now MinterEllison, has acted forIn 2018, decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith launched the defamation trial of the century when he sued this masthead for reporting he had committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
It turned into a 110-day trial involving 125 subpoenas, 26 affidavits and hundreds of witnesses – and legal costs for this masthead that would have totalled $15 million if Nine, by then the owner ofdelivered his verdict, a win for the paper on all counts, Bartlett, listening in while on holiday in Iceland, burst into uncontrollable tears.
The lawyer has five children, 12 grandchildren and a devoted wife of 45 years, and his family has been encouraging him to retire for 15 years. But Bartlett plans to continue his work and positions on bodies including the Melbourne Press Club, the advisory board at Melbourne University’s Centre for Advancing Journalism, and the International Bar Association.December 2019 “Get Brexit Done” British general election – a slogan attributed to the strategist.
In January he founded Sancrox Political Advisory, which just happens to share a name with an industrial suburb of Port Macquarie.Gargett left his post at the end of June after the most recent Assembly chamber meeting held at the world heritage site Budj Bim, a dormant volcano near Macarthur in south-western Victoria that’s older than the pyramids. Gunditjmara manas a director in the Melbourne office of Labor-leaning government relations firm Hawker Britton.
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