Jay, I'm not remotely concerned with your justifications, your views as expressed here and on other threads are repugnant.

o sung wu

you r a straight honest shooter. I admire that.

Jay I don't know how you can be bothered with that arrogant fool, Craig Minns.

What a perfect example he is, of all that is wrong with academia today.

Dear Jayb,

A good head and a good heart are always
a formidable combination.
(Nelson Mandela).

Dear O Sung Wu,

Thank You for sharing your experiences with
Mr and Mrs Fraser. I also have had the pleasure
of meeting both Mr Fraser and his wife at several
formal occasions. I found them both to be quite
charming, very easy to talk to, and very friendly.
Of course we were in a very pleasant social situation.
Mr Fraser did make a very impressive speech.
(He'd done his homework) which was a nice change
from the one Jeff Kennett made in later years (he
hadn't bothered to do his homework).
Anyway, I guess we can only take people as we find
them.

The State funeral is on Friday in Melbourne.

Here is hoping that the luvvies and comrades don't disgrace themselves by disrupting the proceedings with their cheers and boos as they did at Whitlam's funeral.

Hasbeen,
I imagine Craig's office has a wall covered in little post it notes with PC buzzwords printed on them, all connected by lengths of string so he can see the intersections of different concepts and easily determine what we are allowed to say and what's verboten.

Ha! The ultimate irony is that the same people who were gushing over Fraser are now bubbling over with praise for Lee Kuan Yew, what was it he stood for again? What's that logo in the background?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03241/lee_kuan_yew_3241641b.jpg
Oh yeah, THAT logo:
http://40.media.tumblr.com/7fe793509a02203daa20b5006bdd210e/tumblr_ncyg3qQZNo1tjbks9o1_500.png

Oh yeah...this is cool, Mal and the local Asian fascist knock a few balls around in '76:
http://www.afr.com/content/dam/images/1/3/o/j/6/9/image.imgtype.afrArticleInline.620x0.png/1426725035907.jpg