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It’s (party) time

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

7 April 2018

9:00 AM

Was there anyone who was not moved when they saw former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith’s public act of contrition concerning ball tampering? When Prime Minister Turnbull preceded this with a rush to judgment, condemning ‘sledging’ and talking about ‘fair play’ and ‘role models’, Australians everywhere, religious and irreligious, recalled those words of Jesus when the Pharisees dragged an adulteress before him: ‘He that is without sin… let him cast the first stone.

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