EG Posted a story on Wednesday at about 1330 Brisbane time – received a copy of the post from blogger almost immediately, a Feedburner email about 7 hours later, and a Feedblitz email 36 hours later.

Perhaps its worth quickly setting up Feedburner, subscribing to email updates from both services and testing them?

Just to rub it in they gave out Leunig “wrapping paper” (ie a large piece of colour-printed newspaper) the following Saturday.

Currently in New York it’s 11:50PM, so I assume the emails won’t start going out for another hour or so (which is a bit later than I’d like for the East coast during daylight saving, but it’s a free service so I guess we can’t really complain).

I’d be interested in knowing whether readers who subscribed prior to Wednesday received their copy by email. If so then my unavoidably late posting is clearly the answer. OTO if earlier subscribers HAVEN’T been receiving it on Wednesday and earlier, I’ll have to get Jacques to investigate. I suspect that late posting is the answer thoug, because this is the first time I’ve had any such reports and also the firt time I’ve posted ML after 11am CST. Sorry about that, but it will inevitably happen from time to time, because my paid employment has to come first.

I agree (as does Helen) that it wasn’t a “vindication of constitutional free speech principles”.

But it was not merely technical. The court apparently ruled that the tribunal was wrong in its reading of the law under which the two Dannys were found to have breached. It has to retry the case in accordance with the findings of the court. Effectively the court has found that on the facts of the case the two mean did not vilify Muslims, they criticised Islam – quite a different thing and something the anti-vilification law doesn’t forbid. “Technical” only in the sense that if someone is charged with flouting the law and a court finds they didn’t flout that law, then that’s “technical”.

Unfortunately lawyers have a habit of attempting to change the meaning of words in the English language. Yesterday “negligence” today “technical”.

I arrived in Australia on September 11th 2004, so no, I haven’t been here a long time, and I have spent more of that time watching footy than anything else.

But how would you account for those native Australians who disagree with, but respect, Abbott’s views?