Category Archives: The Mercury
Whatever you do, don’t think of the children
A 12-year-old ward of the state was prostituted to over 200 men. Tasmania’s Commissioner for Children produced a report pointing out what you would think would be the self-evident catastrophic failure of the state to protect this child. The only person to lose their job? You guessed it, the Commissioner for Children.
Breathtaking.
We take jokes about our check-in system seriously
If Virgin Blue’s computer check-in system was a virgin before last weekend, it, er, no longer is.
The Resurrection
…and on the 81st day, Julia did visit Kevin’s tomb to anoint His body as Foreign Minister and Lo! the stone was already rolled back, and Kevin was packed and ready to go to the airport.