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 O’Sullivan’s sentencing were released in the Queensland Supreme Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to four charges, including manslaughter and cruelty to a child under 16-years of age.
O’Sullivan has been sentenced to nine years jail, six years of which are not subject to parole. With time served he may be out in four years.
The story of short, tormented life of Mason Lee is heartbreaking. He died of horrific injuries and in terrible pain.
In 2009, Heidi Strbak inflicted a series of fatal blows on her four-year-old son, Tyrell Cobb, in their Gold Coast home. Last year Strback was found guilty of manslaughter. She was sentenced to nine years in jail. She will be eligible for parole in 2021.
Full column here.
The late great George Carlin, Mr Insider and his topic “Saving The Planet”. He was one of a kind imho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Carlin says it like it is. Love his work. ☺
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It’s brilliant Noss. What Carlin is really saying is that the futile fools, of whom I was one, hopelessly overestimated the human intelligence required to modify our behaviour to sustain a liveable ecosystem on the planet.
Even now there are idiots who sincerely do not believe in AGW. And the monkeys, and George was a brilliant monkey for what thats worth, may have the last laugh on “The Planet.” If Venusification does occur as a consequence of human activity then The Planet wont feel so smug for having seen us off. Unless he The Planet only used us to get up to speed with Venus?
Give ’em heaps.
Horseshit.
Which part Tonto?
Of course, its a generally widely well held view that Labor are more inclined to have “nanny state” policies, more so than the LNP. So its rather odd that Labor now appear to have suddenly become ridiculously obsessive and negative about the temporary visit some time ago of a couple of o/s au pairs. Its all they seem to be banging on about nowadays. Talk about one-trick ponies.
There’s no doubt the Federal Opposition have been blown off course by a re-freshened and revitalised LNP. Yes, labor will need to take stock lest they quickly become one of the most predictable and feeble Oppositions this nation has seen.
Oh Lordy, desperate much!
I don’t think the LNP are “refreshened and revitalised” mate, more like same, same, only worse.
Watching Morrison with Leigh Sales last night, he’s sounding like a machine gun on steroids & he purposely avoided her questions & flat out lied about addressing climate change. Hard to stomach.
The Wagga Wagga result is about where they will stay from hereon to the election. Sorry Carl, I know you want it to be different.
Do some people not realise that cartoonists use caricature?
Some? Hordes of delusional thickheads.
Poor Mark Knight.
This will no doubt drag on for weeks
Je suis Mark Knight
I wouldn’t be surprised, some people believe an ancient nutcase came down the mountain carrying scared tablets of stone, and manned moon landings……………. Ah geez, never mind.
That last was a bit uncalled for, just worried Henry might be off his oats.
How do you draw completely bad sportmanship? I dont care if she’s black, red, pink or purple, or if she had someone’s head squeeze out through her hairy coin purse, it doesnt make her any less a bad loser.
She stole the moment from the winner. She should hang her head in shame and just sod off.
That would be noice.
A good comment Wraith, I’d agree with most of that.
Btw, as my rather tatty old wallet has seen better days, where can I get one of those hcp’s you make mention of?
Unfortunately, the face is more redolent of a long past stereotype than Serena herself. Without supporting context I reckon very few people would recognize that as Serena Williams.
It’s a clanger! There will be flak. Get over it.
I think we should be more concerned with her health before heaping on her. %*&#* the sensitivities of the polite tennis world and the self righteous, something is just not right there.
She’s always been a brat. A mate of mine’s step son has worked for some time at a very, very high end resort she regularly attends. The staff loathe her and run for cover when they hear she’s coming.
So what? That’s seen as having a go at people and not Serena Williams. “Portrayed as an African American woman” Jesus Christ!
100% recognisable
Bollocks. Without the cues, ie the currency of the story, the tennis setting, the tennis apparel and equipment, the face in isolation looks nothing like her.
It looks like an insulting caricature of a negro person from history.
I’ll see your bollocks and raise you balls. If police used that cartoon, sans tennis references, as an identikit picture for a wanted person she’d be in custody within hours, if not sooner. Have a look at the pic in Jack’s new blog, it’s a dead ringer. If you don’t see it I recommend specsavers.
Disagree. And don’t you know you can’t say ‘negro’?
Everyone realises that. What some don’t seem to realise is that there is a world of difference between caricaturing a person and caricaturing a race.
https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/cartoons
http://museeholocauste.ca/en/objects/the-book-jews-in-caricature-by-eduard-fuchs-antisemitism/
http://time.com/5392351/serena-williams-cartoon-herald-sun/
How would you draw her JOH? She is undoubtedly black. She has very pronounced facial features and is extremely muscular………..over to you.
I’m crap at drawing, but perhaps Knight could have drawn her in a style without the historical baggage, for example, the way he himself drew Aretha a few weeks earlier. On the other hand, the way he draws “African gangs” is even worse: they are just black silhouettes with no faces at all, completely dehumanised.
The difference is really not that hard to understand, and the same right-wing commentariat currently defending the cartoon understood it perfectly well in 2014, when the Sydney Morning Herald accompanied an article critical of Israel with a cartoon by Glen Le Lievre that resembled hurtful Jewish stereotypes. The condemnation from the Government and the Murdoch press was swift, and IMO, correct. For the most part, that criticism was accepted, and the SMH apologised and removed the cartoon. Can you imagine the Murdoch press or its fanbase doing that?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sydney-paper-cartoon-racially-vilifies-jews-says-community/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-apologise-publishing-cartoon-in-original-form-was-wrong-20140803-zzxab.html
From 2020, the developed nations have committed to giving us$100 billion annually to the undeveloped countries to allow them to handle emissions. (The Green Climate Fund). This is on top of current foreign aid. Does anybody know what Australia’s financial commitment is?
By the way , China is conspicuous by its absence.
Our population in 2005 was around 22 million. In 2030, it was projected to be 28 million give or take a million. That’s a 27% increase largely due to immigration and the “big Australia” policy.
The expected reduction is 64%-65% to the economy as a whole and around 50% per head over 2005 levels.
Does “big Australia” mean that we have to reduce the per capita rate even further?
Dunno!
Yer dunno? Well bloody well find out now that you’ve got me discombobulated. I’ll need to recalibrate my ire. Is this AGW bullshit going to cost me more or less money? It’s bloody important sport.
“Union bred, Union led, Union fed” chants PM Scott Morrison re PM in Waiting Bill Shorten, Mr Insider. I think we can see what tack the Libs will take to avoid a whitewash at the next election, sadly way too late methinks they are goners.
I have 2 on my “Be off with You” List Mr insider, one P. Dutton and C. Pyne, list building tho.
When isn’t there a good reason for a dummy spit? Perhaps people are drinking too much coffee these days.
Lets get ready to see that right wing whack job Peter Dutton, ex ousted PM Abbott’s “glove puppet” voted out at the next election as we see 1000’s of Childcare Workers are mobilising to ensure he does get voted out.
No loss to Australia and no loss to the voters of his marginal electorate.
https://tinyurl.com/y8u9hvvd
Amen to that, Henry.
It just entered my head to consider the experience of the police, doctors, nurses etc whose job it is to deal and care for these poor kids. Certainly not the type of work that switches off at finish time.
Just a reminder for those who do Champions League tipping, kick off is next week.
Cheers.
government spending blowout. “The majority of the spending blow-out, which coincides with an escalation in outsourcing government work to external consultants – is for defence contracts.” No Surprises.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/government-spending-soars-amid-blow-out-in-no-tender-contracts/