Andrew J. Monteith

Feb 6, 2024 | lexology.com | Scott Thompson |Sarah Sinclair |Janine Stewart |Mark Crosbie |Holly Hill |Andrew J. Monteith

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) released its briefing for the incoming Minister for Building and Construction, the Hon Chris Penk MP (Minister) last week. Briefings for incoming ministers are produced by government departments following a change of government. MBIE has identified four priority areas to improve the sector’s efficiency and resilience, largely based on work programmes already commenced, which we summarise below.

Jul 13, 2023 | religiondispatches.org | Andrew J. Monteith

Ana Marie Cox recently noted in The New Republic that conservative legislators in Florida and Texas have been resurrecting doctrines from the original Drug War that would permit authorities to prosecute even mild participation in drug use, such as handing someone a syringe, as a poisoning homicide. Cox is correct to point out that “poisoning” was a trope of the early Drug War but, along with many professional historians, there is one detail her article gets wrong.