John Nobley News Today

The boss of a scientific organisation involved in the inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions said Australia needs a new body to examine alleged miscarriages of justice.

I would be very interested to know how much value has been wiped from the Qantas brand in the last few years

On this day in 1977 anti-drugs campaigner Don Mackay went missing from the car park of a hotel in Griffith. Blood and bullet cartridges were located near his locked van. Donald Mackay’s disappearance has become one of Australia’s longest-enduring murder mysteries, his body has never been found. No one has been convicted of his murder. No one is likely to be.

Those hoping to suppress political expression might be advised to remember spectacular misfires by Barbra Streisand and Margaret Thatcher.