FEDERAL Labor MP Peter Garrett is under pressure to take a drug test after Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns said the two smoked joints with U2 singer Bono. A spokeswoman for Mr Garrett yesterday said: “We confirm Daniel Johns’ statement saying that it was a joke.” Kate Pasterfield later quoted her boss Mr Garrett as saying:
Crime does pay
CONFIDENTIAL documents filed in a Queensland court lift the lid on the secretive world of celebrity book negotiations, revealing that Pan Macmillan paid $350,000 for the rights to drug-smuggler Schapelle Corby’s story. The Australian Women’s Weekly paid a further $110,000 to publish an extract from My Story, the memoir Corby co-wrote with Kathryn Bonella. The
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Six of the Bali Nine now headed for the bullet
Downer on six of the Bali Nine drug trafficers being set for the death sentence after an appeal raised their life sentences to death by firing squad. Downer said he was surprised that the convicts’ lawyers were not the first to be advised and that the Supreme Court had opted for more serious sentences than
Another drug conviction imminent
INDONESIAN prosecutors have demanded an 18-month jail term for an Australian mine worker accused of using methamphetamine. John Michael Kelly, 45, from Warwick on Queensland’s Darling Downs, was arrested in September in Sangatta, East Kalimantan on Borneo, after a tip-off by hotel security guards. Mmmm…Middle aged… working…. anglo sounding name and most probably not as
Afghan opium plan not feasible: drugs board
An oversupply of opium used for medical purposes around the world means plans to use Afghanistan’s illicit crops for such purposes cannot get off the ground, the world’s independent drug monitoring body says. The Senlis Council, a think tank specialising in drug policy, said on Monday that Western countries were wasting millions of dollars trying
Bestiality charges dropped
PROSECUTORS have dropped a charge of bestiality against a Sydney financier who is accused of aggravated cruelty against rabbits and a guinea pig. The dead or dying animals were found in and around his York Street office between July and early August this year, police documents previously tendered to the court allege. Mr McMahon had
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Nguyen court bid ‘questionable’
HISTORY was against the latest bid to save condemned Australian Van Tuong Nguyen, a Singapore-based human rights campaigner said today. …campaigner Sinapan Samydorai said the application to the court would require the approval of Singapore’s Government, and history showed this appeared unlikely. Interestingly Singapore News has no original articles on Nguyen but links only to
McIlveen hits superlative overload
DRUG offender Michelle Leslie is heading home to a storm of outrage after the Australian model ditched her Muslim garb for a skimpy top and moved to sell her story to the highest bidder. Storm of outrage…mmmm If one swallow doesn’t make it summer one Muslim whinging doesn’t make it a storm unless you’re McIlveen.
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Nguyen execution date set as 2 Dec
POPE John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI both made direct but unsuccessful appeals to Singapore to spare the life of convicted Australian drug courier Nguyen Tuong Van. Who ever thought Singapore would listen to the Pope. Singapore’s Prime Minister didn’t listen to Howard either as it would appear that when Howard raised
Nguyen still headed for the long drop
GEORGE Pell will urge the Pope to intervene in a desperate bid to spare drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van from the gallows as the Howard Government yesterday also promised a last-ditch appeal to spare the Melbourne man’s life. Desparate bid is right with only 19 percent of locals claiming to be Christian and the remainder
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