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Rolf and Operation Gumtree

The UK’s favourite Australian: guilty or not guilty?

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris is believed to have pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of embarrassing a large amount of Australians.

The embarrassment charges relate to serial offences against good taste, Australian artistic credibility, rock music, national pride, indigenous self-esteem, cartooning and painting and occurred over a period from the late 1950s until quite recently.

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