STRAWS IN THE WIND: Icarus and I / Drugs and getting on with our neighbours / France’s Muslims – and ours / Varieties of bribery and corruption*

Icarus and IOn the general principles of catch-up and me-too, The Age has followed The Australian in filling their columns, day after day, with the 1975 Gough Whitlam Dismissal.The ABC, which has never left it alone, is back with carefully selected old footage from that bizarre event. Why do they waste our time with this Stone Age politicking, this cultural necrophilia?After all, there are still enough people around who remember what a total disaster the Whitlam term in office had been. What inc…

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