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Stolen valour, tin medals and tin pot generals
The actor Brian Dennehy died yesterday of heart failure due to sepsis. He was 81. The star of Rambo: First Blood, Gorky Park and …
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Don’t accept sanitised history of clerical abuse
I have written on numerous occasions that I despaired Pell’s trial would become a circus that overwhelmed everything around it and everything that had …
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A bad day for con artists
Yesterday was a bad day for grifters, conmen and bullshit artists. As they traipsed into court across two states, we ticked them off in …
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Assange is not the messiah, but Wikileaks is a cult
It popped up in my in box yesterday. One of those tiresome exhortations to sign a petition. This one had already been signed by …
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Death becomes our politicians.
A big shout out to Dennis Hof who overcame the severe handicap of being dead to win election in District 36 of the Nevada …
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How to pick a cancer faker
Another day, another cancer faker exposed. In July, in the Adelaide District Court, Kelly Val Smith pleaded guilty to four counts of deception and …
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Another child death, another failure of the system and society
William O’Sullivan beat his 22-month-old stepson, Mason Lee, to the point where Lee died from his injuries some five days later. Details of 37-year-old …
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The global pandemic of clerical child sex abuse
A Pennsylvania grand jury has released its findings accusing 300 Catholic priests of sexually assaulting more than a thousand children over 70 years. The …
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Courts are too soft on child pornography
Today we learned the Australian Human Rights Commission has laid down its particular view of the law and came out again with a determination …
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Denis Ryan has a win at last
Denis Ryan has had a busy time of it. On the 86-year-old former cop’s call list this morning was the Washington Post, the BBC and …