SOME big corporations – Qantas, Telstra and the National Australia Bank – have infuriated me recently. But I am grateful for the experience. Continue reading “Grateful for Qantas, Telstra, NAB bastardry”
Month: October 2010
Presumption of bail should be tightened
EARLIER this month one of the ACT Supreme Court’s acting justices, Justice John Nield, dismissed as appeal against a three-year sentence imposed in the Magistrates Court on Gavin Massey. Massey is 28 and had 57 convictions before the 10 new offences. Continue reading “Presumption of bail should be tightened”
Miracles should be treated as corporate spin
EXPECT more assertions of miracles in the lead up to, and aftermath of, the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. Let’s hope we also have some rigorous debunking of this nonsense. Continue reading “Miracles should be treated as corporate spin”
The blather of ‘progress’ in Afghanistan
Forum for Saturday 09 October 2010 afghan debate
By CRISPIN HULL
THIS month’s parliamentary debate on Afghanistan will not be as easily dismissed as Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s address to the troops there suggests. Continue reading “The blather of ‘progress’ in Afghanistan”
Wrong defendants in Afghan case
MAYBE some good will come out of the charging this week of an Australian soldier with manslaughter over a botched raid in Afghanistan.
“Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
MAYBE some good will come out of the charging this week of an Australian soldier with manslaughter over a botched raid in Afghanistan. Continue reading “Wrong defendants in Afghan case”