Poor Old One Nation, Acting The Victim Again

IT GETS more startling by the day. David Ettridge, a former inmate of a Queensland correctional centre, is claiming that the state's Premier, Peter Beattie, may have politically pressured a judge into deregistering One Nation. Not just a single judge, mind you, but other chunks of the judiciary, the police and public servants were all pressured so that he and Pauline Hanson ended up being sent to jail for electoral fraud.

Inmate On Perjury Charges

A STUDY of case law back to 1896 was of no help in deciding a penalty for a man who had twice perjured himself, a barrister told Newcastle District Court yesterday.