Let’s face it, it’s been a tough week. What we need now is an issue that will unify the nation. Happily we have one at hand, Australia’s pathological obsession with Schapelle Corby.
Corby is set to be deported from Indonesia in the coming days. She will be put on a burner and returned to the only place she would regard as worse than Bali’s Kerobokan Prison — Australia.
Ultimately Corby served nine years in Kerobokan and after being released in February 2014 has served a closely watched period of parole in Bali for the last three years.
Back in March 2005 when Corby was first convicted and sentenced, it was akin to the lunar landing, people crowding around televisions watching the verdict, the media going the full three ring circus routine. While some of the hysteria has subsided, it is set to ratchet up again as Corby prepares to set foot in Australia for the first time in almost 14 years.
Full column here.
May I say not in a shy way I did it my way.
Could be the jetlag still but a quarter of the news last night devoted to ‘finding’ Shapelle is simply bizarre. Who actually cares? Let her be.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155087570150255&substory_index=36&id=720775254
Bella
Apropos my 12.08pm 28 May, full marks to the Aus’s indigenous affairs editor Stephen Fitzpatrick for his piece in today’s Aus.
Razor says: ….MAY 26, 2017 AT 8:26 PM ….Wissendorf says: MAY 27, 2017 AT 9:57 AM……Jack The Insider says: MAY 27, 2017 AT 9:24 AM…….Trivalve says: MAY 28, 2017 AT 10:56 AM
Whilst we are on crime:- a great interview with journalists Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern who discuss the so called NOIR “Golden Years” of Sydney crime with Phil Clark…Lenny McPherson, the introduction of heroin via USA soldiers on leave, Bob Askin’s two up school, the whole lot. Enthralling stuff Bald!
http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/sydney-noir/8564838
Henry Blofeld says: …MAY 27, 2017 AT 2:20 PM
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Thanks Bassy I’ll give it a listen!
Vale (yet again) Anthony Foster and Gregg Allman.
I had the pleasure of meeting the Fosters at the RC. We had lunch the day Denis Ryan gave evidence in Melbourne. Anthony and Chrissie were lovely people, very warm and welcoming. They have endured so much. Vale Anthony. He fought the good fight.
In some ways it’s good to see him getting a State Funeral for all his travails, not good since the events that have triggered it happened so soon. Can’t imagine how his wife and daughter must be feeling.
I also see that Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of Defence, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the famous historian, Alistair Horne, have passed as well.
Yep. the Midnight Rider rides no more. When I heard that, I queued up Eat a Peach and turned up the volume. Good thing it was after dawn.
I think the natural career move for Ms Corby is to enter politics. I think a seat in the senate appropriate. She would give the human headline a run for his money.
I suppose once the froth and bubble of the homecoming of a convicted dope mule subsides some of our journos may attempt to energise their cerebral adroitness and report on the detail and the meaning of the proposed Makarrata between the Uluru mob and the Commonwealth.
But those among the hoi polloi who may have an ongoing interest in the latter shouldn’t hold their breath because even the finest minds assembled on the ABC’s Insider’s this morning appeared not to have a clue.
Reading some of the comments at The Oz under Noel Pearson’s piece and others made me wonder anew about what happened to polite discussion. One can disagree with the whole idea or with aspects of it without falling to derision and abuse but that seems to escape a lot of folks.
Publish “Ricky John Best & Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche” in tiny font, Jack. Don’t want to bump the real news.
Razor. Sorry for a slow reply to your generous offer of a $50 bottle of wine in the last blog. I’ll see you and raise it to $100 if he ever makes PM (by election). If it’s a mid-term backstab or death of the incumbent etc, I’ll go $75.
TV happy for the ton but I did say leader of the Federal Liberal Party.
Death catches up with the Midnight Rider: https://youtu.be/ItnG3jFErvo
Gregg Allman dead at 69. His brother Duane died of fame at 24, one of the greatest guitar players who ever played slide.