In applying the fruits of a prodigious imagination the father of the Stolen Generations myth is saying he has extensively researched Aboriginal child removals and is therefore competent to make up 'facts' about a specific case. Garnish with florid prose -- 'She turns to stare at the aching blue of the Harbour' -- and what you get isn't history or anything like it

The Productivity Commission's recent research paper on the cost-effectiveness of prisons in reduxing crime states, 'The literature has consistently found that incapacitation through incarceration leads to significant reductions in crime.' Couldn't be more clear, right? Not to the report's self-same authors, who proceed to endorse a rather dim view of imprisonment's efficacy as a response to crime