The Bartlett Diaries (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... This piece, also at Asian Corresponent , draws on an excellent blog post by Crikey blogger Bob Gosford which details the innate injustice caused by mandatory jail sentencing required under our laws targeting people smugglers. This piece from “The Stump” blog at Crikey’s website notes that continuing statements by Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in Australia about the allegedly dodgy nature...
The Bartlett Diaries (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A leaking oil rig off the north-western coast of Australia has been spewing oil into the marine environment for over two months. Whilst there has been intermittent publicity about the ongoing oil spill, it certainly hasn’t galvanised wide-scale public concern in Australia. I have to confess that, like Northern Territory based blogger Bob Gosford, I am perplexed [...]
Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The latest NT Ombudsman's report into Northern Territory Police misconduct reveals some appalling conduct by members of the force, writes Bob Gosford , with prisoners subjected to torrents of verbal abuse.
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
... Sydney's richest suburbs. Fluff Fluff, also known as Mr Fluff or just Fluff, came into the yard of Bob Gosford, who lives in Yuendumu, 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, as a very sick puppy earlier this year. But the once scruffy mutt has since been re-housed by a volunteer group called PAWS in the Sydney suburb of Darling Point. Mr Gosford says the terrier cross with one...
