Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How does this work? Pauline says that we are one nation, and that she is opposed entirely to people coming to our country and ignoring our values, our language, our traditions, our dress, and the fact that we are predominantly a Judeo-Christian society. Well excuse me for asking, but isn’t our language English? Isn’t England […]
Pauline Hanson can’t count. Yesterday she told us that 51.5% of Australians were either themselves were born overseas, or had one parent born their. Then she asked if that was what Australia wants. Wouldn’t you think that if the majority of the country’s people had the overseas links that they would? It’s simple common sense. […]
I like Noel Callow, quite a lot. He is rogue for sure, and – at least in the past – clearly a racist. Or so it seems anyway, based on the evidence of his video recordings. Usually that would turn me off a bloke completely, for I have a brown brother, wife and daughters, and […]
It is important to remember that proceedings such as these are not penal in nature. Unlike penalties in criminal cases where concepts such as retribution, denunciation and rehabilitation are of importance, civil penalties such as these are imposed primarily, if not solely, for the purposes of deterrence – Racing Appeals Panel* The Stewards inquiry into […]
In a decision that surprised many observers, including this writer, the QLD Racing Appeals Panel has upheld the decision of the Stewards to impose a ten-month disqualification Noel “King’ Callow over what have become known as the ‘Darwin Tapes’ containing audio and images of the jockey making racist slurs against indigenous people in Darwin last […]
We’re here at the Racing Appeals Panel this morning for Noel Callow’s appeal against his 10 month disqualification on two charges of conduct detrimental to the interests of racing related to the incidents in Darwin last year that were recorded on video and later surfaced on social media, after it is rumored former jockey Group […]
Callow’s barrister Stirling kicks off by saying that there is no argument that racism is wrong and totally unacceptable, and that his client acknowledges and accepts this. His client accepts that he behaved foolishly, offensively and in a racist and gratuitous manner toward people he did not know on the street. Stirling says that Callow’s […]
I can assure you from my own knowledge and experience of Jim Murdoch KC that he is a thoroughly good and decent human being, but gee if he was of a different bent he would have made an outstanding interrogator for the Stasi. Slowly and methodically he is twisting Callow in knots and tearing him […]
The Panel plays the offending video recordings. There is much argument about whether the transcript of the recordings is correct, with Stirling disputing that his client ever called anyone the highly offensive term “nigger’ and the recording clearly appearing to back him up. Stirling submits that Callow’s conduct was spur of the moment stupidity, not […]
Murdoch KC is back on his feet to sum up the QRIC’s case. He says that this is an important case. The recordings of Callow’s conduct have gone viral he says, not only in Australia but across the world. The Magic Man tells us that racing is under attack from activists determined to shut the […]
