60 minutes thread?

PT, you have made that word up, the closest I could get to it in the Macquarie Dictionary was "stacked" which is defined colloquially as "a buxom woman" , is that by whom ALP branch meetings are stacked ?

You are right, he is nothing more than a sh##t stirrer and I have fallen into him again.In the future I will try to disregard his rantings. I might put SC in that same category and stick to his racing tips..I avoid them and look for something else to back against his selections. It just goes to show by owning a horse in no way makes one a tipping expert.

He didn't threaten to invade England or anything.

Surely there’s more to it than what we’re seeing. There had to be something driving the investigation behind the scenes.

The accused family seemed like "strange" sort of people, and it occurred to me that the police thought as much, and were more suspicious because of it.

Poor old Katoomba.   Its a cross between hippy and upper crust.

Those circus people just seemed weird to me. 

So I can imagine how they looked to the cops. 

I think it is a reaction to "pedophile hysteria", which pervades society, that leads all sorts of people to default to believing an accused over an accuser, in such cases, because to do otherwise, would be seen to take sides with the "worst of the worst". Whilst any crime against children is to be condemned, I really think in a lot of cases of assumption of guilt of such crimes, there is some heavy-duty psychology at work, where such errant impulses,  are projected, less than consciously, on to others. Exporting the "evil" on to a likely carrier. I recall an old pedophile when released at an advanced age from jail, was in lodgings that were besieged by hordes of people, many or most of a noticeably feral nature, I'd have taken odds-on, that amongst that group were offenders of the same ilk, who saw him as a focus they could project their own unruly impulses on, anything other than admit to themselves they had the same impulses, and likely had acted upon them, but wanted to disown it. That many people seem unable to draw a sharp distinction between the "garden" variety of child sex offender, and those who murder children after abusing them, says that cool thinking is not the order of the day, with this issue.

Jeee-sus Marion Joseph. 

Surely you've got to do some vetting of the witness???

For christ sake, the brief stated that the kid had been picked up off the ground by his little fella. That the accused had used his teeth to do it.