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Hetty Johnston links young sex offenders to Internet pornography

Child protection campaigner Hetty Johnston says the reason the age of sex offenders and their victims is getting lower is probably because of easy access to internet pornography. The evidence to support such a claim — Either Hetty doesn’t have it or the media didn’t report it. I’m betting the first. ‘Easy access to pornography’...

Hetty Johnston’s not a moral crusader

She doesn’t consider herself to be a moral crusader, but Hetty Johnston does consider herself to be the Mary Whitehouse and Fred Nile of our time. Well, ‘probably’ at least. Hetty told the Courier Mail she doesn’t like to think about it: Is she a moral crusader? Our age’s Fred Nile or Mary Whitehouse? Johnston...

SBS Insight: The Naked Eye review

When Bob Bain posted to the No Censorship mailing list that SBS would be airing a debate on the Bill Henson saga, I questioned whether their was anything left to add that print media hadn’t already covered. Bob reassured me that the people on the guest list could add more. I feared it might turn...

Henson’s artwork classified PG, Hetty hits the roof

It’s been a long day (work), so let’s make it quick: The controversial Bill Henson photograph that featured on an invitation to his exhibition has been rated PG by the Classification Board. David Marr writes that while a minority of the classification board thought the impact of the picture was moderate, none of the classifiers...