Saturday 23rd November 1996
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Bryant took a last fleeting look of life outside bars at Hobart's Risdon jail before being led inside to serve a sentence of 35 consecutive life sentences without the chance of a parole.
In sentencing Bryant Tasmanian Supreme Court Chief Justice William Cox called him a "pathetic social misfit".
One of the survivor's Carolyn Loughton who was wounded in the shoulder said that life behind bars was too good for Bryant. Her daughter, Sarah, being one of 35 people murdered by the madman.
She expressed the views of many who came to see Bryant being sentenced when she said, "That man has had seven months more life than my daughter and 34 other victims, he can rot in hell."
Bryant's first reaction to the sentence was to ask his lawyer for a can of Pepsi.
In Tasmania's Parliament a special new law was passed this week allowing the state to confiscate the entire estate of Martin Bryant, valued at over Au$1 million. The estate will be liquidated and distributed to the family of the victims of the massacre.
One good result has occured from this horrific massacre - the outlawing of private ownership of automatic and semi-automatic weapons in Australia. Already tens of thousands of these killing machines have been turned into police and been destroyed.
On a day in which President Bill Clinton and wife Hilary soaked up the northern paradise they even made time to meet with relations of Max the koala.
Clinton had global warming on his agenda in his address to the people of Port Douglas talking about the greenhouse effect and emissions by industrial gases.
The issue has the potential of embarassing the Howard government who have argued that Australia should have special consideration in this area.
Collins said, "Here was the freshly re-elected US President visiting our vibrant, alluring, still-new nation, toasting not the achievement we call modern Australia, but instead paying homage to a monarch as geographically remote from Australia as one can get."
Spare a moment for Federal MP Bill Taylor and his Tasmanian counterpart Senator Brian Gibson who were using the urinal in Parliament House when Bill Clinton decided to visit the "men's room".
Clinton was preceded by two of his "heavies", earphones and all.
"It's one of those quaint little things that happen in the toilet in Parliament House," Liberal Taylor said, " We (Gibson and he) were talking away and were just in the process of zipping up and the doors flashed open and these two heavies came through with the little earphones on... and they said 'The President is on his way'.
"And I said, 'well I haven't finished yet', and then we turned around and quickly washed our hands as we turned back Mr Clinton came through the door and quickly shook our hands, wet as they might have been!
"But the interesting thing was when I got back to luncheon - because it had flashed around Parliament House that I had met the President in the toilet - people were talking about the lengths I would go to to hang out with the President - that was the catch line."
One Australian less than pleased to pass in the proximity of the President this week was the pay-TV executive who was out running in Sydney's Botanic Gardens on Thursday.
As the executive loped along a voice yelled out "Stop"!
While the trainer did just that the happy fitness fanatic did not hear the call and kept on going - for about two more paces.
That was when he was hit by a side tackle that would have made a Bronco proud.
While he lay like a stunned mullet on the ground he was interrogated by two men, one with an American accent and one with a distinct Aussie twang as to who he was, what he was doing and where he worked.
Not content with the answers the mysterious tacklers later called his employer for confirmation that he was who he said he was after letting him go - without even meeting the President!
Dear Scott,
I think it is very cruel of you to make fun of a decent upstanding citizen like Charles Mannington.
After all here is a man who together with his nubile wife Sue willingly give up their valuable time to read stories to senior citizens, encourage their daughter Dinny (named after that well-known early Christian Gunga-Din) to collect Koalas in her schoolbag and training "bots" (short for "bottoms"?) to go around LISPing around pornography.
I think you owe the gentleman an apology or at least a few bookmarks of websites that will give him a headstart into his areas of interest.
Have a good weekend - maybe you could find the church where Charles...
Jim
Jim, the general feeling here is that Charles Manninton is a well orchestrated hoax... and in fact the name is a spin-off of Charles Manson and that Dinny should be read as Dunny... in this hoax!!Anyway, thanks for the feedback...
and another from Dave Campbell in the UK:
Born in Dempsey, lived in Argentina - this guy isn't even Australian...kick
him out of our country..
Subject: Charles Mannington
After a week in which the banks recorded record profits the banking sector closed 9.7 points higher at 3959.4
Australia finished the day at 5 for 282 - a very good start after a season of poor performances.
Have a great day!
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