This is it- this is the image from a postcard invitation to the opening of a Bill Henson exhibition opening that Hetty Johnson wants to use to put Henson and the Oxley9 gallery owners in jail.
image: Bill Henson, Untitled 2008 (more…)
Norman Lindsay‘s take on media criticisms of his art:
Journalism and Art, Norman Lindsay,
posthumously published in 1999
Times seem to have moved on at ABC News and Fairfax, where stories and opinion pieces are running strongly in favour of Bill Henson.
News Ltd remains largely in the dark, toady ages, pandering to the very lowest common denominators, who think that nudity invariably equals pornography, or that somehow, putting an image on the big bad internet magically transmogrifies it from art to porn.
So, for the great unwashed, who can’t tell the difference between art and smut, here’s some more ‘kiddie porn,’ brought to you by those dirty bastards at The Internet™.
image: Anne Geddes
Ought to get the knees-a-jerking. 😉
-weez
Online civil libertarian group Electronic Frontiers Australia warns on their site No Clean Feed of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s plan to force mandatory ISP-level filtering on all residential and business internet users in Australia:
What is planned?
The Government is refusing to release concrete details on the plan. However, we know that ISP-level filtering has been ALP policy for some time and is being zealously pursued by the Minister. What we do know is this:
- The feed will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country.1
- The filter will censor material that is “harmful and inappropriate” for children.2
- The filter will require a massive expansion of the ACMA’s blacklist of prohibited content.3
- The filter will target legal as well as illegal material.4
EFA notes that any filter system would ultimately be circumventable by use of an anonymiser service or other offshore proxy. (more…)
Eagle-eyed mgk readers will have noted that this site was ‘suspended’ from about 1AM to 9AM AEST today. This was due to a false complaint of child pornography on this site, lodged by Darrin Hodges, one of our beloved local white supremacists/neo nazis, about the Bill Henson image accompanying the immediately preceding post. (more…)
image: Bill Henson
Noted photographer Bill Henson’s Sydney exhibition of photographs of nude adolescents has been closed by NSW Police after a complaint of suspicion of child pornography. (more…)
The BBC seem to have taken a page out of the Metallica Guide To Winning Dedicated Fans.
Aunty’s upset about a crochet pattern made by a fan and offered for free on her website; BBC Worldwide threatened a copyright lawsuit if the pattern were not removed. Regrettably, the knitter complied. She should have told them to EFF off.
Outraged residents of Oodnadatta, South Australia are rumoured to be taking advice on the BBC’s blatant exploitation of their historic town name via this silly Dr Who character.
-weez
Costa’s obscene outburst at unions
Andrew West and Andrew ClennellMay 5, 2008
MICHAEL COSTA stormed across the room – his face flushed, his hands clenched – towards John Robertson, the secretary of Unions NSW. “You blokes can get f—ed,” he screamed. “You’re going to look like dickheads on Monday morning.”
[…]
In the end Mr Costa took to the stage on Saturday. His arms were flailing, his voice rising. On ABC TV yesterday it was referred to as a “Mussolini-like” performance. The vote went 702 votes to 107 against him.
Leave it to those pinko commies at the ABC to draw such a ridiculous and unrealistic comparison.
Who does Iemma think he is? Making unilateral decisions against the best interests and will of the people is King George II’s job.
So, how do you sack a premier in Australia?
-weez
As if NSW Premier Iemma heavying the media wasn’t bad enough, the WA Premier’s office have sent the police to lock down and search a News Ltd. newsroom (watch the raid: video) to find the source of a leak about government policy on spending taxpayer money to get re-elected:
Police raid on WA newsroom criticised
May 2, 2008
FAIRFAX MEDIA has joined a growing chorus of condemnation of the West Australian Government over police raids on a Perth newspaper, seen as an attack on free speech.
The department of the Premier, Alan Carpenter, a former journalist, yesterday admitted it made a complaint that led to the raid by 16 officers on the Perth newsroom of News Ltd’s Sunday Times on Wednesday.
The officers were trying to find out what “government sources” leaked information about a $16 million ad bill for taxpayers to help get the Government re-elected. Exits at the building were blocked and staff leaving had their bags searched. (more…)
