(in reply to Rob S) The first was a hospital pass from Palmer though. Moore was the only senior Labour MP with the balls to take one for the team. By the second he was a contender.

The man who murdered Good Samaritan Austin Hemmings in central Auckland spent eight years in an Australian jail for stabbing and killing his estranged girlfriend.

He was also jailed in New Zealand on three separate occasions for knife incidents dating back to 1987.

Is there any information available about his other crimes? Do we know if they were committed in the home against family members?

<blockquote>The man who murdered Good Samaritan Austin Hemmings in central Auckland spent eight years in an Australian jail for stabbing and killing his estranged girlfriend.

He was also jailed in New Zealand on three separate occasions for knife incidents dating back to 1987.</blockquote>

Or, to put it another way, he was "quiet and god-fearing, apparently".

They didn't THREATEN a boycott, they IMPOSED a boycott.

Giovnni, Key is also the Minister of Tourism.

Neil: ...which would explain:

SYDNEY -- Film company MOD Films, employing Creative Commons licensing, was refused any dispensation from the Australian Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) to contract local actors to an interactive re-mixable sci-fi film called Sanctuary. The decision on Wednesday brings to a halt an AU$100,000 short film shoot scheduled this month by preventing actors from being contracted under the MEAA award, despite letters of support from all the principal actors.

The MEAA Board decided that it could grant none of the dispensations sought by MOD Films, on the grounds that these would be “inappropriate”. The production had asked for dispensations and support for its world-first plans to employ professional actors in a film with only “Some Rights Reserved” by the production company. The company intends to permit non-commercial use and re-voicing of the film by the audience. The MEAA also rejected the option of any further negotiations with MOD Films.

http://rights.apc.org.au/culture/2005/03/meaa_halts_worldfirst_film_project_in_australia.php

Summary: MEAA shuts down a film because it's a Creative Commons project intended for remixing and adaptation by the Australian short film community. See SIMON WHIPP decides how a film is produced and shown, not some goddamn Open Source fruits.

@Peter Cox: does this sound RESPONSIBLE to you?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/mega-movie-refused-rebate/2008/03/18/1205602383792.html

or this?

http://rights.apc.org.au/culture/2005/03/meaa_halts_worldfirst_film_project_in_australia.php