Modern Heroes

Wednesday, 6 November 2002



Oz columnist Janet Albrechtsen today takes up the cudgel dropped so spectacularly by Senator Bill Heffernan in his kamikaze attack on Justice Michael Kirby. Don Arthur is very good on the subject - so good that I am going to restrict myself to the sincerest form of flattery and suggest that he might extend his post thus:



There is another sort of hero-columnist. The real one. She is the quiet one who goes about the less glamorous but vital role of diligently checking dusty back-issues to discern what the facts are rather than creating out of the genius of her own mind, what the facts should be.