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Indonesian Justice, More Plans, Life Update, Adelaide Institute and Unitarians, Good Liberals.
The Schapelle Corby case has really captured Australia's imagination and surprise over the Indonesian justice system. Just to put Corby's case into perspective, consider the legal action applied against the architects of violence in East Timor in the last days of the occupation. Nice to see that you can kill 1500 people and dislocate a quarter of a million and receive a promotion, but if you have a few kilo's of marijuana on you it's 20 years jail.
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luciusmalfory are plotting a naughty but educational website. It's a long-term plan, something that will take probably a year to set up. 'Nuff said on that matter. Secondly, brendan and I bounced around a couple of ideas for a Paranoia supplement. I shot a letter off to the publishers and they're very interested indeed! Which goes to show, when I work on it I can have a really silly sense of humour.
Saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Saturday. Didn't think much of it, not as good as the TV series. I gave it a 4/10. Zaphod was sufficiently annoyingly, tho'. Have spent some time upgrading my home computers. Will end up with four different operating systems when finished. Debating internally on whether to buy a Compaq ProLiant 3000 that's on the cheap. On the work news front, Inmatrix just rang to say that they now want me as permanent part-time on contractor fees. Nice. Meeting with Cameron from Swinburne last week went very well, looks like RPG journal is a going concern. Speaking of which, Scene 10 of Ten Thousand Islands is complete. Have also been playing more of the one-to-one Nephilim/Call of Cthulhu crossover withcaseopaya, which is really developing into quite a story. Finally, Outbreak of Heresy starts this Sunday.
Crazy thing happened at the Unitarians last Sunday. A person approached the Church to give a lecture on Florence Nightengale some time back, which was all fair enough and he gave a reasonably accurate report, although certainly nothing special. However, a little bit of subsequent investigation reveals that the speaker, one Geoffrey Muirden, is a former leader of the anti-Jewish and historical revisionist Adelaide Institute. That's not so good.
Full congratulations are due to Petro Georgiou and his colleagues in their valiant stand against the government's inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. Labor for Refugees will be organising a protest in favour of Petro's actions. This should attract some media attention.
luciusmalfory are plotting a naughty but educational website. It's a long-term plan, something that will take probably a year to set up. 'Nuff said on that matter. Secondly, brendan and I bounced around a couple of ideas for a Paranoia supplement. I shot a letter off to the publishers and they're very interested indeed! Which goes to show, when I work on it I can have a really silly sense of humour. Saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Saturday. Didn't think much of it, not as good as the TV series. I gave it a 4/10. Zaphod was sufficiently annoyingly, tho'. Have spent some time upgrading my home computers. Will end up with four different operating systems when finished. Debating internally on whether to buy a Compaq ProLiant 3000 that's on the cheap. On the work news front, Inmatrix just rang to say that they now want me as permanent part-time on contractor fees. Nice. Meeting with Cameron from Swinburne last week went very well, looks like RPG journal is a going concern. Speaking of which, Scene 10 of Ten Thousand Islands is complete. Have also been playing more of the one-to-one Nephilim/Call of Cthulhu crossover with
caseopaya, which is really developing into quite a story. Finally, Outbreak of Heresy starts this Sunday. Crazy thing happened at the Unitarians last Sunday. A person approached the Church to give a lecture on Florence Nightengale some time back, which was all fair enough and he gave a reasonably accurate report, although certainly nothing special. However, a little bit of subsequent investigation reveals that the speaker, one Geoffrey Muirden, is a former leader of the anti-Jewish and historical revisionist Adelaide Institute. That's not so good.
Full congratulations are due to Petro Georgiou and his colleagues in their valiant stand against the government's inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. Labor for Refugees will be organising a protest in favour of Petro's actions. This should attract some media attention.
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18. Telling the truth about Team Corby
A perceptive subscriber writes:
In all fairness to News Ltd, you should acknowledge that The Weekend Australian removed itself from the pack a week ago by tip-toeing ever so gingerly around the Corby family's own past and present drug, jail and alcohol problems in this fascinating read. Similarly, The SMH (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15357324%255E2702,00.html) last Thursday published this excellent piece (http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/The-white-knight-for-the-defence/2005/05/26/1116950819431.html) on Ron Bakir by reporter Colin Kruger which buried the following aside right at the bottom:
His own brother is presently facing charges in Southport magistrates court involving extortion, possession of dangerous drugs, wilful damage, entering premises with intent to commit an indictable offense and assault.
The "join-the-dots" implications of Kruger's piece were interesting, but have gone completely unnoticed in all the hysteria. Put those two pieces together and it sounds like there might be a story out there folks. Which members of the free press will go and find it rather than fan our xenophobia?
CRIKEY: Derryn Hinch, albeit a shock jock with much-reduced credibility, was tip-toeing towards a certain theory yesterday when he said: "I think I know who put the drugs in the bag." Is anyone game to go a bit further? Who would have had access to that boogie board bag?
60 Minutes can't claim to have much credibility left after continuing to pull out the cheque book to secure the exclusive role of taxi driver for the family as they travelled to and from Friday's sentencing. Sunday night's piece was particularly ordinary as this dysfunctional family (dad has six drink drive charges and a drug conviction to his name) was interviewed immediately after the sentencing. They just shouldn't have been exposed to such questioning when traumatised.
Even Piers Akerman was bagging the Packer network on the Nine-controlled Sky News last night when he declared that it had "inflamed the situation" with emotive and one-sided coverage. The Daily Telegraph has probably been the worst of the Murdoch papers, but Akerman claimed its reports had more depth and analysis than Nine's shallow and one-sided TV grabs.
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