o sung wu,

It will be interesting what background information on the Bali pair and their associates comes out after. The can must be bulging with the censorship lid being forced on as it is.

Police must struggle not to let cynicism overtake them. As with the return of the Vietnam Diggers, what you see on The Box and in the tabloids shouldn't be taken as the public opinion at all. Public opinion might be swayed for a time but in time commonsense prevails and people see through the BS.

Again you're right ONTHEBEACH, the media should take much greater responsibility with encouraging and shaping public opinion, on many very important issues.

An example during elections - the media should try to disseminate to the public, only proven 'facts', and those facts must be completely devoid of any journalistic opinion. In so doing, the public are properly appraised of what a particular political Party intend to do, or not do, as the case may be ?

Post the elections and thereafter, any government who may renege on a promise, or attempt to reshape a policy in some way that would mislead the electorate, the media can immediately remind them of what their intentions were, prior to them forming government !

In this way, perhaps some truth may again prevail within the hallowed corridors of parliament house ? Lets face it, anything's better than what's happening now ?