Conviction by Richard North Patterson is a powerful and disturbing book about truth, justice and the American way. It poses more questions than it answers, incisively exposing the flawed legal system in the United States, where elected judges care more for public opinion than justice. It tells the story of a semi-retarded black man, Rennell [...]
Mungo National Park
During my spare day at Balranald I visited Mungo National Park. It’s 150km from the town along mostly dirt roads. This is the official blurb from the National Parks brochure: “Mungo National Park covers most of an ancient dry lake bed on the plains of south western NSW. During the ice ages, Lake Mungo was [...]
