I watch yet another ugly Schapelle Corby scene on the television news: she’s being released from prison and bundled into a car surrounded by dozens of photographers and journalists. There is near hysteria. Not only hysteria by the way, but the journalist son of a former Labor Foreign Minister, Mike Willesee.
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Alexander Downer was Australia’s Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007.
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