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Britt Lapthorne Let Down By MSM

BRITT Lapthorne’s family, mum Elke, father Dale and brother Darren have requested privacy after the confirmation the body found in the sea off Dubrovnik, Croatia, is the missing 21-year-old backpacking holiday maker.

Picture…ABC

Britt disappeared after visiting the Fuego nightclub in the old quarter of the city during the evening of September 18. Police are still investigating.

“She was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a distraught Elke Lapthorne told reporters.

Three things must be mentioned.

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Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (10)


Australia Cures Bi-Polar Disorder With Aborigine Magic Dust

AMERICA. AMERICA! There is hope. You must leave and head to Australia.

Baz Luhrmann has a message for you.

A small brown boy, possibly called Yvonne, Rolf or Shane, will arrive in your urban sink and sprinkle magic dust onto your hand.

Don’t call the cops. The Australians know who he is. And as a brown-skinned kid in the land Down Under he is going nowhere. Really. They have fences.

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Posted: 8th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


A-Flat Minor: The Beaconsfield Mine Disaster: A Musical

TO Australia where Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor will debut in Melbourne tomorrow night.

Miner Larry Knight was killed in a rockfall at the mine on Anzac Day 2006, while Brant Webb and Todd Russell were trapped for 14 days.

It’s terrific show, if a little slow in parts…

Mr Russell tells us:

“(I feel) disgusted, really, in the way they’re going about it and what they’re going to call it,” he said on ABC radio.

“When they’re calling it ‘A-flat Minor’ it’s appalling I think, just a lack of respect for the Knight family. It’s better off being left alone, people are trying to get along with lives, trying to move forward, and they just keep using this tragedy of ours.”

Everyone’s critic. What about the show?

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Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Strictly Come Dancing Judge Exposed As Straight Man

TO the set of the BBC’s bloated Strictly Come Dancing, then. And news that dance judge Craig Revel Horwood is an illegal immigrant.

We have never seen beneath the desk at which Revel Horwood sits, but allegations are that it houses a Colombian cleaning lady, a family of Ukrainian shoe polishers and three Bangladeshi waiters.

Born in Australia, Revel Horwood is alleged to have married a British woman called Jane in 1990, who he left 12 months later to set up home with one Lloyd Rooney.

The allegation is that Revel Horwood is not a camp dance judge with drip-dry hair, but a hot-blooded heterosexual male who has bedded women.

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Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comments (2)


Bob Spinks On The Britt Lapthorne Case

The owner of the Croatian hostel where Melbourne backpacker Britt Lapthorne had been staying before she disappeared allegedly tried to post the 21-year-old’s passport to Australia, her father says.

Meanwhile in Britain, Essex MP Bob Spinks has tabled a Parliamentary question for the UK Home Office:”If he will set out the number of British citizens who have been i) reported as missing in Croatia and ii) have not yet been found, in each of the last three years and if he will make a statement.”

Britt Lapthorne was last seen in a nightclub in the Croatian coastal resort of Dubrovnik on September 17., says today’s coverage in the Melbourne newspaper The Age.

Dale Lapthorne, is in Dubrovnik to try to find his daughter and told Australia’s ABC Radio of an anonymous telephone call to the Berkley Hotel where he is staying on Saturday night.

The call was in Croatian, which was translated by an Australian consular official.

The male caller said a woman he recognised as the owner of the hostel where Britt had been staying was at a Dubrovnik post office trying to post a passport to Australia on the day Ms Lapthorne went missing.

The caller said she left with the passport when she was told she could not send it through the mail.

Ivica Perkovic, the son of the hostel owner, was questioned at a Dubrovnik police station late last week after police discovered Britt had telephoned him on the night she was last seen.

He was later released, and denies knowing anything about Britt’s disappearance.

Dale Lapthorne told reporters the anonymous caller contacted the hotel where he, son Darren and Britt’s boyfriend Simon Imberger are staying.

Mr Lapthorne said the family was holding onto a glimmer of hope that Britt was alive because her body had not been found.

The story still appears to be being ignored by the UK media. I wonder how the same Red Tops would react if the positions were reversed and The Oz media was ignoring a story of a British female backpacker missing on a Pacific Island?

The mystery remains a lead story in all of Australia’s news bulletins and Page One in all newspapers.
The Sydney Herald tells of Britt’s father’s anger over the seemly softly, softly, methods of an Australian police aide:
See: Phantom Presence

AGW

Britt Lapthorne Is Missing

How The Media Treats Australian Backpacker Britt Lapthorne

Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


How The Media Treats Australian Backpacker Britt Lapthorne

The frantic family and friends of missing Australian backpacker Britt Lapthorne are appealing for help to trace her.

Anorak picked up on the story of the 21-year-old Melbourne woman who has been missing since September 18 after she visited a night club in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and seems to be among the first of the UK media to do so.

Britt, above, had been staying at a backpacker hostel and police failed to react quickly to a fellow backpacker’s anxious inquiries about her the following day. It was several days before her family were informed and her brother, Darren, and father, Dale, are now in Croatia and urging police to do more.

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Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (15)


Show And Tell: Bill Henson In The Playground

“PREMIER John Brumby has demanded an investigation into how controversial artist Bill Henson was allowed to visit a Victorian primary school to find young models.”

To Australia…

Mr Brumby has ordered an urgent inquiry into how Henson was allowed to tour the Melbourne school to look for boys and girls for his artwork, which often features children in various states of undress and nudity.

To the changing rooms…

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Posted: 5th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (5)


Britt Lapthorne Is Missing

ONE of the curiosities of news coverage is its seemingly one-way interest direction.

Australia’s second city, Melbourne, is caught up with the tale of it own missing 21-year-old backpacker. A Croatian police statement that they are “looking for a girl and not a body” headlines in all of today’s Oz newspapers.

Britt Lapthorne, above, went missing in Dubrovnik, Croatia on September 18. In the reverse of so many tales of Europeans missing/lost/murdered tales in Oz, her brother, Darren, and father, Dale, are now in the country desperately seeking clues to what has happened to their loved one, last seen in the city’s Fuego nightclub.

Croatian police say the son of the owner of the Dubrovnik hostel where Britt was staying was released after 36 hours of questioning but was not a formal suspect.

AGW

Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (8)


Australian Youth Feed Zoo Animals To Terry The Crocodile

KIDS, eh. They really do do the funniest things.

To the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in the Northern Territory, where the lovable rascal, age 7, has broken in.

He is feeding animals to a crocodile called Terry, while smashing the heads of other to bits with a rock.

This is, of course, what happens when Dannii Minogue is not on the local telly and your shorts are too tight.

Says the zoo’s director, Rex Neindorf.

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Posted: 3rd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)


Journalism Is Dead In Melbourne

VIA Tim Blair, news from Melbourne:

Journalism skills are hardly rocket science and can be acquired with experience and a little training,” writes Antony Loewenstein in Melbourne’s Age. Being deficient in both areas, the paper spells his name as “Lowenstein”.

Beyond parody…

Posted: 26th, September 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comment (1)


Australian Man Confesses To Everything

JASON Hall is up before The Beak at Campbelltown Local Court to answer two counts of assault involving a female domestic partner. Says he:

“How about I just plead guilty to the whole fucking lot and just send me to gaol?

Yeah, I am. I’m guilty on the whole lot. Send me to fucking gaol you piece of shit. It’s fucking wrong.

It’s wrong, look, you’re a female . . .

Of course you’re going to charge me.

Of course you’re going to go against me because you’re female.

Fuck brief nothing. Just – I’m pleading guilty on the lot. Don’t worry about it. Change it right now, pleading guilty on the fucking lot.

When I come back here in a week I don’t want to see you, you putrid fuck.

I would too if I was you, you fucking cunt, fucking dog, fucking moll.”

Later, he puts his thoughts to paper:

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Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)


Nicole Kidman Conceives In Fertile Waters

CELEBRITIES don’t have children; celebrities have miracles and anecdotes.

Nicole Kidman’s miracle is called Sunday Rose, more commanding than Old Mr Anorak’s latest progeny, the rosy-fingered Dawn Rose, and blessed with a ray of life-giving light.

But how did this gift occur? Nicole Kidman reveals all:

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Posted: 25th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comments (8)


When Australian Streakers Attack

WHEN Australian streakers attac (NSFW):

United vs Hummocks Watchman Eagles match at Virginia Oval. A streaker. A jump. A bang on the head…

Posted: 16th, September 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Wiggles Take Australia For Fourth Year In Row

CELEBRATING Australian culture:

The Wiggles have been named Australia’s highest-grossing performers for the fourth year in a row.

Are they like the Minogues, but taller?

Posted: 14th, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)