Dear Rowland,

(From a friend who was a broadcaster on ABC radio):

When dealing with politicians who are big into “mateship” and close ranks as soon as they are challenged, there is only one technique that works. Divide and Conquer.

Some years back a journalist had a flash of mischievous inspiration and anonymously sent the following message to ten of his city’s politicians.

“It’s too late they have discovered everything”.

Within a few days eight of the ten had hurriedly left town. 🙂

In Dawn’s case (see http://jmm.org.au/articles/4728.htm) prayer is all I can offer, but we must not expect justice, fairness or honesty from Australian politicians or probably for that matter those of any other country (there are always exceptions to this rule, Kim Beazley’s father for example: he was on record as having never intentionally set out to hurt anyone!!!).