Tim Holding
Getting ready for my appearance before the High Court in Canberra this week I did some eccentric research. I watched The Castle for the first time.
And whether your name is Daryl or Derryn it is pretty daunting walking up those steps to the towering glass façade of the High Court building in Canberra. With life imitating art, some of the media gang and camera crews who played extras in The Castle were there again in real life for my High Court battle.
That’s where the similarity ended. The battler fighting to retain his home on the grounds that a man’s home is his castle had a suburban solicitor and a QC played by Bud Tingwell against a couple of high-powered lawyers.
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Update 7:00am 2/09/09: The Herald Sun’s Padriac Murphy is reporting this morning that the plane is a secret anti-terror spy plane owned by the Australian Federal Police.
What type of plane was it that spotted Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding stranded in the Victorian Alps?
In a statement on their website this morning the Victorian Police stated that an Australian Federal Police plane had spotted a light from Holding’s makeshift camp.
Yet this afternoon Victorian police have contacted news organisations telling them to remove any reference to the plane being an AFP plane with the reference taken out of the media release . What is going on here and who owns this plane?
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Hamilton27Winifred says:
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Earl says:
This is a late addition to the speculation of the why’s and wherefore’s of his getting lost. It was staged by AFP and the Vic government to try out the new spy plane. Timmy the idiot went out with flat batteries in everything, no epirb, limited food but plenty of… Read more »
As I write this piece, news has just filtered through that Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding has been found alive on Mt Feathertop, in the Victorian Alps. Thank God.
I don’t yet know many details of his bungled trip, but I do know this: Holding is just the latest in a series of backcountry adventurers who’ve failed to pay the Australian Alps the respect they deserve.
For nine months of the year, the Australian Alps are a benign bunch of hillocks which are scarcely fit to be called mountains. Our highest peak, 2228m Mt Kosciuszko, is so rounded that tourist buses were once permitted to drive all the way to the summit.
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Brad Jackson says:
Helen, I understand what you are saying and it certainly has merit but I have a ‘‘thin edge of the wedge’ outlook on emergency beacons. (Although in 5-10 years time, I expect my arguement to be considered quite quaint) When do we ‘expect’ people to carry such a device -… Read more »
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Helen says:
You’re right, Brad. They don’t need an emergency beacon as long as there is a mysterious AFP plane flying around to spot them. The beacons are meant to be used when you are in danger. They are not compulsory (except for category 2 yach races) but they are a good… Read more »
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