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michael johnson & co www.mjandco.com.au 9370 7777 Mount Lawley, Morley, Duncraig No 829 Saturday May 10, 2014 • Phone 9430 7727 • www.perthvoice.com • [email protected] • EAST Voice fPPXSbR^\T]SX]VWXeWc\[ C i d n i i t y u t t d by DAVID BELL • Harry TERRY LEAHY from the University SELF-DESCRIBED Mt Lawley Holland aka of Newcastle, whose PhD is in Crawlers child-adult sexual relationships, paedophile Harry Holland is Colin Nugent. File photo says the magazines “are very likely appealing a child pornography the only copies of this publication kerbed conviction, arguing his remaining from that time and as such Rockspider magazines have are a significant part of Australia’s by DAVID BELL social history value. historical and social record”. “The Police found three issues of the period covered by these journals was THE street prostitution name magazine in Holland’s house in unique. The sexual revolution as it and shame list is empty, with 2010. was then called...was being claimed Vincent city council putting a Also known as both Colin for paedophilia. Not just in Australia drought of recent convictions Nugent and Emu Nugent, Holland but internationally, paedophiles linked down to the issue being has owned the magazines since their own problems to the repression “largely resolved”. of children’s sexuality and supported the mid-1980s. n 01 the Alannah While the publications have no the rights of children to sexual expression...”. MacTiernan-led council resolved images of children being abused, to publish the names of people they include stories describing sex STEVEN ANGELIDES from La Trobe convicted of soliciting a prostitute with boys aged between 10 and 16 University said Rockspider was “part around Smith and Stirling Streets and illustrations of naked boys. of the social and political sexual in Highgate. The names stay up Under WA law, written material liberation movement that swept right for six months, but with the most is included in the definition across western societies in the 1970s recent convictions dropping off, of child pornography, which and early 1980s”. He said Rockspider the list is now empty. is material that depicts a child “is an historical artefact of a very Acting CEO Mike Rootsey engaging in sex or in a sexual different social and political period”. says “the street prostitution conte t “in a way likely to offend a “I recognise that copies of the issue has been largely resolved reasonable person”. magazine Rockspider have literary at this present time through the and scientific merit and that it is in combined efforts of A police Convicted the public interest, and for the public and the city.” good, that Rockspider be available to The Voice asked if the problem Holland was last year convicted be studied. To destroy such historical had moved to nearby streets, of possessing child pornography records would make important but Mr Rootsey says “the city and was fined 000. scholarly work impossible.” has received no further resident He is appealing to the supreme GRAHAM WILLETT from the complaints” and “feedback court, saying the magazines University of Melbourne said, from WA police supports that were published during the gay “however shocking some might kerb-crawling is non-evident liberation movement era and were find this material, it is of inestimable in Highgate area at this present designed to promote discussion importance to historians, sociologists time.” of paedophile issues such as the and all those interested in age of consent (21 for males at the understanding our society and its Deliver the Voice to local time), treatment, and negotiating past in all its diversity”. Of the naked letterboxes: Good pay, gentle legal issues. drawings, Dr Willett said, “clearly no exercise. Vacancies in East Perth, He says the publications have child was harmed or exploited in the Mt Lawley, Yokine, Coolbinia. social history value and the law production of these images”. “While Call Stephanie 9430 7727 provides a defence for material maga ines’ scientific value was medical value to them, they denied by the presiding judge. are simply stories that are child it is possible that some readers may “of recognised literary, artistic find some of the stories and images A feast for two up for or scientific merit” and “that the This week, prosecutor Carmel pornography.” Barbagallo told the Supreme Court She said the State would seek sexually titillating in the context of grabs. Find the fake ad act to which the charge relates is the magazine as a whole and in ustified as being for the public the stories in the magazines “are to have the magazines destroyed. See child pornography without any Justices Graeme Murphy, the context of the historical and good”. political period, this aspect is simply comps Holland’s attempt at last scientific merit whatsoever”. Robert Mazza and Wayne Martin for “It’s not as though they are considering whether to allow insignificant to the assessment of the year’s trial to present three value of the magazines.” details expert witnesses attesting to the are theories or have some Holland’s appeal.
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Page 2 - The Perth Voice, Saturday May 10, 2014 by STEPHEN POLLOCK A QUARTER OF A MILLION people have signed a CRAYFISH petition calling on the Abbott government to not cut funding to the ABC. The whopping document was SPECIAL dropped off simultaneously at 0 federal M s’ offices around INCLUDES OUR Australia, including Labor’s Diners will receive BUFFET AND Alannah MacTiernan in Perth. SALAD BAR More than 1600 Perth electors a fresh half West $32.95! signed the GetUp! petition. Australian crayfish, “ e want the AB fully e u C either a la natural, funded, free from ads, free for everyone, because it is has fair • ocals opposing cuts to the ABC drop o their petition at Alannah grilled or mornay and balanced news reporting,” Mac iernan s Beaufort Street o ce. Photo supplied | Green Left Weekly says lead erth petitioner Bria is a rightwinger like Amanda determined the broadcaster was for ONLY $32.95! yder, a reens party member Vanstone, a former Howard completely balanced and fair. and Mt awley resident. government minister, to provide “This is not a recent address, LUNCH MON - FRI 12.00 – 2.30PM “I got involved because I commentating balance. SAT - SUN 12.00 – 2.30PM you can go way back to Alistair DINNER MON - FRI 6.00 – 9.00PM want to make sure my federal “ think they have balanced Cooke’s Letter from America,” SAT 6.00 – 9.30PM representative understands how up the Phillip Adams side with Ms MacTiernan says. SUN 5.30 – 8.30PM important the ABC is to our other broadcasters who are more “The ABC is balanced, not community.’ right-leaning,” she says. biased towards the left-wing.” Ms MacTiernan, currently She notes there has been n a 01 et p survey, the BAYSWATERHOTEL.COM.AU somewhere in the imberley, plenty of research into claims the protection of public broadcasters says for every AB broadcaster ABC is biased towards the left. from cuts and privatisation like Phillip Adams—an The Howard government even ranked amongst Perth’s top four unashamed left-winger—there set up its own inquiry, which issues.
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