Today, The Outsider discusses an unbelievable op-shop win, pollies who love a cut and colour, Senate buddies and the Burnside moat, and asks whether a local media outlet has been caught in “friendly fire”.
We’re gonna pop some tags
It´s the stuff of urban legend; wandering into an op-shop and paying a few dollars for a piece that turns out to be worth thousands.
We have never had such luck ourselves and were starting to believe that these stories were from the land of make-believe.
The weekend, however, will now be spent scouring the op-shops of Adelaide after a reader’s discovery that the $5 bracelet she bought at a store on Marion Road turned out to be a gold bracelet from New York jeweller Tiffany.
After buying the bracelet our lucky reader noticed the distinctive “T & Co” markings and numbers engraved on the item.
She sent pictures of the bracelet to Tiffany and had it valued; you guessed it – $5500 worth of bracelet beauty.
We won’t tell you the full address of the op-shop because we’ll be there all weekend checking for more bargains.
Gold, Jerry, Gold.
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Cut and colour
Member for Schubert Ivan Venning loves red wine, which is totally appropriate for a bloke who represents the Barossa in state parliament.
Not many people love fermented grape juice so much that they’ll take their own bottle and a glass to pass the time while having their hair cut.
But word on the street is that Ivan does when he visits his Rundle Mall barber of choice.
Bloc party
The weird Senate results have created a unusual conservative bloc of Senators, the tightest of which may be good buddies and like minds Bob Day, from Family First, and Cory Bernardi, from the Liberals.
Bob, as this upright online organ has reported, essentially runs conservative South Australia out of his “Bert Kelly Research Centre”. Cory records his CBTV YouTube messages there, and it’s also home to the Conservative Leadership Foundation, started by Bernardi.
The pair have a lot in common.
Both believe climate change is a load of bollocks. In fact, Cory’s latest YouTube missive seems a lot closer to Family First’s climate change policy than that of the Liberals. In fact, Cory’s views seem almost suspiciously close to Family First’s policy. Coincidence? We’re sure it is.
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We also wonder how Bernardi, who wants a debate on nuclear energy, feels about this entry into defence policy, in which Day says he wants Australia to develop nuclear subs in conjunction with the UK and then establish the fleet as a separate arm of the Australian Defence Force.
“I’m sure the US would welcome Australia pursuing the UK nuclear powered submarine option,” Day writes.
An idea whose time has come
Burnside Council decided this week that it was inappropriate for the homeless purveyors of The Big Issue to sell the magazine on their precious streets.
Then, after The Messenger roasted them for it, they changed their mind.
The Outsider believes it is now time to begin work on that long hoped-for, nation-building engineering project – the Burnside Moat.
That would solve all sorts of headaches for the good burghers of Burnside.
Media mysteries
One paragraph in The Australian struck us as odd this week, mostly because it seemed like news and yet no news organisation followed it up.
It was in an article about the ongoing school sex abuse scandal which continues to damage the State Government.
The article stated that Attorney-General John Rau “would be referring the Sunday Mail to ‘the relevant agency’ for a possible breach of the Royal Commission Act of 1917 after the newspaper named the offender (in the sex abuse case)”. The Mail did indeed name the offender in a feature article last Sunday, and The Advertiser continued the practice through this week.
No other media touched the topic of Rau’s referral – a sure sign that something is up.
The background is that Rau wrote to the Upper House committee examining matters to do with the sex abuse case last week, warning that the committee could be in danger of breaching the 1917 Royal Commission Act, which he says bans the review or questioning of decisions, determinations and proceedings of such an inquiry.
He points out in the letter that the Royal Commissioner, Bruce Debelle, ordered that transcripts of evidence be kept confidential until an unspecified “legal event” occurred.
“The legal event as far as I am aware has not yet occurred,” Rau wrote. “Therefore, any attempt to publish an account or report of the evidence given to the inquiry may amount to an offence.”
So, who complained about the Sunday Mail publishing the name of the offender, and would that, in any case, amount to a breach of the Act?
Many in Adelaide media circles believe the “complaint” was friendly fire, so to speak. No-one’s happy.
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