Mary Kay Letourneau’s release from a Washington jail last week was partly greeted with a continuation of the romantic notions that were initially expressed when she was first imprisoned for second degree child rape.
Now forty-two years of age, Letourneau became movie of the week material in 1997 when her […] Continue Reading…
August 08, 2004 | Unknown
When Loving Was Wrong: the Crime of Mary Kay Letourneau
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August 03, 2004 | Jeff Wall
City Councillors indulging themselves…the expense of their ratepayers
THE ink was barely dry on the declarations of local authority results in Queensland just over three months ago when virtually every major City Council began the process of increasing the salaries and allowances of its Councillors in the least transparent way possible.
The one exception was the City […] Continue Reading…
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August 02, 2004 | Graham
More on Moore
I’m still getting around to putting my thoughts on paper about Fahrenheit 9/11, although they’re well and truly mustered. In the meantime I’ve decided to collect any electronic reviews of Fahrenheit 9/11 that I am sent and publish them here, with the author’s permission of course. I’m […] Continue Reading…
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July 31, 2004 | Unknown
Sometimes Moore is Too Much: Darlene on Fahrenheit 9/11
At a recent screening of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 the audience was less lively than I expected them to be.
Where was the applause like that which erupted at the Cannes Film Festival or the vocal agreement with Moore’s representation of George W. Bush as a nitwit and lazy President […] Continue Reading…
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July 30, 2004 | Graham
Marcus Einfeld on Fahrenheit 9/11
I’m going to do my own take on Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend. In the meantime one reader – Justice Marcus Einfeld sent this short comment in to me.
Fahrenheit 9/11 has flaws but its basic message is powerful testimony to the grave sins which governments the world […] Continue Reading…
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July 28, 2004 | Graham
National characteristics trump technology and truth.
Well, as far as I know, if you live in Australia you probably read about it first here on this blog. It took next off the block, the AFR, another 4 days to report it here. I’ve yet to see any other Australian news media cover it […] Continue Reading…
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July 26, 2004 | Jeff Wall
Tony Blair, 10 years on – high praise from an unlikely source.
THE Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair last week celebrated 10 years as Leader of the UK Labour Party. To mark the occasion, he has received very high marks on his service as Prime Minister from about as impeccable a source as it would be possible to find.
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July 24, 2004 | Unknown
A Weapon of War
Earlier this year the world was, if sometimes pruriently, appalled at the sexualised violence inflicted on male inmates by female soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Garnering less attention, but creating more victims, has been the systematic sexual assault of Sudanese women and girls as part of a strategy […] Continue Reading…
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July 22, 2004 | Graham
Democrats invite pleb pundits aka bloggers inside
It won’t happen this election season in Australia, but bloggers are joining the mainstream in the US. According to Wired News in this story “Blogging against Convention” the Democrats have invited 35 bloggers in to cover their convention. The Dems even have their own official blogger, Eric […] Continue Reading…
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July 22, 2004 | Graham
Two good reasons for investors and governments to sell Telstra
I’m not monomaniacal about it, and I think it’s bad politics, but the government should sell Telstra,and Mark Latham should agree to it. Every day the case for doing so gets stronger and stronger, as two recent pieces of evidence show.
The first piece of evidence is contained in […] Continue Reading…
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