Ducks Nuts licence suspended for getting underage girls drunk
Someone please tell me why girls this young are out and about only dressed in lingerie? It sure looks like the bar patrons and staff were trying to get them drunk enough to perform certain “activities”. The bar should get off so easy. They should lose their licence period.
“2 underage sisters dressed only in lingerie were hauled out of a bar by their mother after allegedly being served free alcohol by bar staff.
The girls, aged 16 and 17, were enticed to sit on the veranda of the Ducks Nuts pub in Darwin and “score” scantily dressed passers-by heading to the nearby Hookers’ Ball, the woman said.”(news)
iPods ok during exams
A Sydney girls’ school will let its student use iPods, the internet and mobile phones during exams as a new method of assessment.
Presbyterian Ladies’ College at Croydon will let year nine English students use the hi-tech equipment during exams first, before rolling out the program across all subjects by the end of the year.
English teacher Dierdre Coleman, who is dean of students for years seven to nine at the school, said the move was about “redefining” cheating, and would allow modern day technology to be fairly incorporated into modern education. (news)
Sex slave owners, ‘bad people’
A couple who kept five women as sex slaves at a Sydney brothel were described as a “psycho family” by one of their victims, the District Court heard today.
The victim also wrote in her diary that Trevor McIvor known as Papa and his Thai-born wife, Kanokporn Tanuchit, were “bad people” with no conscience or feelings of pity.
“Whatever they do to the girls, I hope they receive their sin in return soon,” she wrote.
McIvor, 60, and Tanuchit, 41, were convicted of keeping five Thai women as slaves at McIvors Fairfield brothel. They were arrested after Australian Federal Police and immigration officials raided the brothel in June 2006.
The court heard the women were subjected to demeaning treatment and forced to work seven days a week to pay off debts of between $35,000 and $45,000. (news)
Serial rapist on the loose
It is feared a man responsible for a series of daylight attacks on teenage girls in Sydney will become more brazen and escalate his assaults.
Police believe six attacks in the city’s north-west since April are linked and are warning young women not to travel alone.
The victims, aged between 16 and 19, have all been approached on busy streets during the day and threatened with a knife.
Two girls have been sexually assaulted, while the others managed to flee to safety.
In four out of the six attacks, the girls were approached at bus stops.
In the most recent incident, a 16-year-old was yesterday pulled from a Mt Druitt street at knifepoint into a nearby driveway, where she was sexually assaulted. (news)
Is it porn or art? Rudd and Blanchett at odds
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s cozy affair with the nation’s arts community, in particular Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett, has hit a rocky patch over an exhibition of naked photographs of young girls.
Blanchett and 42 other leading arts figures have signed an open letter critical of Rudd for describing artist Bill Henson’s photographs of naked 12 and 13-year-old children as “revolting.”
Police shut down Henson’s exhibition at a Sydney art gallery last week and confiscated 20 of his photographs as part of an investigating into whether charges should be laid.
The police raid sparked a heated debate in Australia over what is art and what is pornography and has seen the arts community, which publicly backed Rudd’s Labor party ahead of its November election victory, turn on the prime minister for supporting censorship in the arts. (link)
