Hello paul-h,

You can't imagine how pleased I am to be on the receiving end of your ad hominem attack. The feeling of intellectual superiority it gives me leaves me smiling all day.

Thank you!

Back on June 20, I sent Stephen Hagan the following email:

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Be so kind as to rephrase your online article "Remembering Charlie" so as not to plagiarise the article I wrote for Wikipedia. The infringing content is:

"From the mid-1970s, members of the Noongar community lobbied for the erection of a statue of Yagan as part of the WAY 1979 sesquicentennial celebrations. Their requests were refused, however, after then Premier of Western Australia Sir Charles Court was advised by local historians that Yagan was not important enough to warrant a statue."

"Respected Indigenous leader Ken Colbung claimed at the time "Court was more interested in spending tax payers' money on refurbishing the badly neglected burial place of Captain James Stirling, WA's first governor"."

"Despite this setback, the Noongar community persisted, establishing a Yagan Committee and running a number of fund-raising drives. Eventually, sufficient funds were collected to allow the commissioning of Australian sculptor Robert Hitchcock to create a statue."

"The result was a life-size statue in bronze, depicting Yagan standing naked with a spear held across his shoulders. Hitchcock's statue of Yagan was officially opened by Yagan Committee chairperson Elizabeth Hanson on September 11, 1984. It stands on Heirisson Island in the Swan River near Perth."

You have copied this text from Wikipedia or one of its mirrors, without attribution, thereby infringing my copyright.
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This email has gone unacknowledged. To plagiarise someone elses copyrighted material, to pass it off as your own work, and to not even bother to respond when challenged, really is shameful, shameful behaviour.